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Future Employee Experience in Luxury retail

Design sprints, capability & team building | 150+ people reached | Amsterdam, Paris, Miami & New York

The employee experience carries as much importance as the customer experience in modern businesses. Understanding this, Carter approached DesignThinkers Academy to embark on adapting their environment to employees’ functional and emotional needs. Our Employee Journey project at Cartier involved relevant stakeholders from the different departments of the global organization. This was essential in order to allow the co-creation of shared solutions and their active engagement. As a result, in a learning-by-doing manner, participants were guided through a Design process that enabled them to visualize future scenarios of the employee experience at Cartier. Read on to learn more about applying Design Thinking in luxury retail.

CARTIER DRIVEN INNOVATION

The project involved relevant stakeholders from the different departments of the Cartier organization. Moreover, this was crucial in order to allow co-creation and active engagement to ultimately create shared solutions. In addition, even if the project was content-focused, the participants could gain first-hand experience with the Design Thinking tools, methodology and unique approach.

The project was executed on a global level, involving teams in the Paris, New York and Amsterdam offices. An important aspect was how to involve relevant stakeholders from the different departments of the Cartier organization in order to allow the co-creation of shared solutions and their active engagement. Working with a human-centered perspective resulted in more extensive changes than imagined at the start: besides from redesigning the physical working space, we embedded employees’ emotions and attitude into the new design.

METHODOLOGY

In a learning-by-doing manner, participants were guided through a Design process that enabled them to co-create Persona profiles and their Customer Journey. Moreover, this enabled them to visualize Future Scenarios of service. Ultimately, DesignThinkers Academy and Cartier worked together on a project closely related to the Employee Experience, more specifically, the working environment. Lastly, Cartier Benelux is based in a prestigious building in the center of Amsterdam, for security and structural reasons.

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Design Thinking in banking to boost innovation

Design sprints, Capability building & Qualitative research | 500+ people reached | Switzerland

Change and innovation usually face a certain amount of resistance in traditionally conservative industries. A set of capabilities is required to ensure the successful implementation of new ideas, which is crucial to growth and development. In this 1-year project, we worked on introducing improved ways of working (such as Design Thinking) within Pictet. Together, we facilitated new skills such as research design, ideation, prototyping, and effective collaboration at one of the largest banks in Switzerland. Read on to learn more about applying Design Thinking in banking and investment.

PICTET DRIVEN INNOVATION

How might we help Pictet to build Design Thinking capabilities?

Headquartered in Geneva, Pictet is a Swiss-based bank with a focus on private banking. As one of the largest Swiss banks, it primarily offers services in wealth management, asset management, and asset servicing, to private clients and institutions. The Pictet Group employs around 4,600 people, including 900 investment managers.

Before approaching DesignThinkers Academy, Pictet had already taken the first steps in creating a Learning and Development Program for their employees. To further build on this, we provided an all-around Design Thinking Capability Training internally with the strategic goal of integrating new and improved ways of working into the organization.

In addition to building new capabilities, we also assisted their Product Innovation teams with a number of Design Sprints to collaboratively develop new and innovative products and services. We also helped Pictet to hone in on the idea of developing a Community of Expertise internally.

METHODOLOGY

To ensure full immersion in Design Thinking, we guided Pictet through a curriculum that closely follows the Double Diamond methodology of divergent/convergent thinking. Simultaneously, we organized masterclasses that dived deeper into hard skills and soft skills, such as conducting interviews for qualitative research, effective ideation, empathy, communication, and negotiation skills. Furthermore, to boost innovation, we ran a 3.5-day Design Sprint to optimize the connection between the teams with their clients. This serves to provide insights into future product innovation in the most accurate light possible. Finally, we coached Pictet’s senior consultants on adopting and facilitating the Design Thinking mindset in their organization. 

At the end of this project, Pictet’s teams were more confident in creating and rolling out innovative ideas that fit the needs of their customers. They were also more comfortable using the Double Diamond / Design Thinking mindset in their daily work.

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Accelerating Innovation for Financial Services

Accelerators, capability & team building | 1000+ people reached | The Netherlands, Spain, Germany & Romania

ING is preparing for the future regardless of the speed of change. Therefore, with facilitation by DesignThinkers, we accelerated an innovation process that embeds the users’ perspective in product & service development. As a result, we successfully combined Lean, Agile & Scrum with Design Thinking. In this manner, we empowered ING to bring relevant solutions to the market faster.

ING DRIVEN INNOVATION

How can we support ING in the adaptation of a human-centered perspective to improve services in the financial industry?

DesignThinkers Academy collaborated with ING to co-create an internal innovation process embedding the users’ perspective in new service development. Consequently, DesignThinkers Academy trained a team of ING employees that will foster a more human-centered perspective within the organization.
Furthermore, DTA also guided the ING Accelerator teams to develop, test and implement new services. As a result, DesignThinkers Academy designed all of the tool which were used for the individual workshops, guidelines, toolkits, Accelerator programs and flows.

METHODOLOGY

How to successfully combine Design Thinking, Lean, Agile & Scrum? With the PACE methodology, ING is prepared for the future, whatever the speed of changes may be. As a result, the combination of methods enables us to bring relevant solutions faster to the market. Watch the explanatory video for an elaboration of the process.

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Customer Journey Mapping for Hospitality Services

Qualitative research, CJM development & Service scenarios | 500+ people reached | Taiwan & Japan

The main objective for DesignThinkers included training and coaching a team of marketing specialists and managers of MOS Burger. Providing facilitation for qualitative research in a co-creation setting and designing new innovative future customer journey scenarios. To underpin its focus on helping the Taiwanese service industry become more innovative.

MOS BURGER DRIVEN INNOVATION

Designing with Customer Journey Mapping for Hospitality Services Government of Taiwan. Commissioned by CDRI (Commerce Development Research Institute) – Research Think Tank of the Taiwanese Government, to underpin its focus on helping the Taiwanese service industry become more innovative. The main objective of the project included: training and coaching a team of Marketing Specialists and managers of a chain of restaurants. Providing guidance for doing Qualitative Research and designing and visualizing new innovative Customer Journey Scenarios.

METHODOLOGY

How can we improve the service delivery by using customer journey mapping as a redesigning tool? In the process of designing new and innovative services, the Customer Journey Mapping methodology builds a mirror and enables us to question

why organizations and customers do the things they do. The Customer Journey Map provides a new way for stakeholders to work together. Creating an immediate sense of ownership of the outcomes of the process.

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Rebuild Global Employee Ecosystem for Beverage Industries

Accelerators, Process design & Remote coaching | 500+ people reached | EMEA, USA & Baltic states

Our collaboration with Coca-Cola was an interesting case of Design Thinking in HR. DesignThinkers facilitated the redesign of Coca-Cola HR & the employee ecosystem. How can we demonstrate a human touch in the digital world we work in? Resulting in improved service scenarios for hiring and on-boarding for new Coca-Cola employees worldwide. The main outcome is a set of prototypes & roadmaps on how to implement these pilots.

COCA-COLA DRIVEN INNOVATION

How can we support the HR Department of Coca-Cola in redesigning its employee services following a ‘Design Thinking’ approach?

Design Thinking Workshops for Coca-Cola Global HR were carried out in collaboration with the GBS department. We facilitated Design Councils consisting of Coca-Cola employees and Coca-Cola Human Resource professionals. This was a co-creation effort to explore the Coca-Cola Global Business Services eco-system and opportunity areas for improving services and design improved Service Scenarios especially for hiring and on boarding of new Coca-Cola employees. The main outcome is a set of Prototypes & Roadmaps on how to implement the Pilots.

METHODOLOGY

How can we demonstrate a human touch in the digital world we work in? The idea was to treat the Coca-Cola employees we worked with, as customers of our services. Along with this new mindset came new emphasis on the experience of these services. Putting ourselves in the shoes of our customers, we asked ourselves four key questions, focussing on getting a deeper understanding in customers’ desires, needs and pain points. In the end, we helped the GBS department to produce a Customer Journey Map that was applicable to their employee journey. In doing so, Coca-Cola’s HR professionals can envision the employee experience and breathe new life into how they view their global employee ecosystem.

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Mastercard

Design Research, Customer Insights, Business Model Canvas |1000+ people reached | Egypt, Morocco, Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria

DesignThinkers Academy developed a human-centered management roadmap to diversify revenue streams in the MENA region. Along side to that, trainings and events were organized in order to foster innovative climates. 

We helped Mastercard to embed the Design Thinking mindset on different levels of management and in everyday business. Applying creativity in crafting business models, diverse revenue alternatives with cross-functional teams were identified. A human-centered approach was adopted in formulating roadmaps for new service concepts. Moreover train-the-trainer workshops were organised for management teams to foster innovative climates and developing new business models.

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Creating new solutions to improve lives across the world

Capability building | 500+ people reached | The Philippines and the Netherlands

Every year, Bloomberg Philanthropies, the charitable arm of Bloomberg Corporation, organizes the Global Mayor Challenge. In this competition, city authorities around the world must come up with a sustainable solution to improve a dire issue in their current jurisdiction. As Design Thinking consultants, we helped the governments of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Butuan, the Philippines with injecting human-centered thinking into their final products. Read on to learn more about applying Design Thinking in NGOs.

Through extensive collaboration and the teams’ incredible grit, we managed to cross the finish line together: Rotterdam and Butuan were honored as winners of the Global Mayor’s Challenge 2021. Each city received $1M each in funding to further develop their ideas into viable, sustainable solutions.

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“It will help me address stakeholders and that I get their buy-in.”

Yannick, Adidas

Future Employee Experience in Luxury retail

“The DT Bootcamp was a real transformation. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to understand what DT really is about.”

Pamela Caillens, Cartier

Mastercard

“A refreshing and engaging experience that went beyond my expectations.”

Tupo Muocha, UNICEF

Human-centricity in product creation process

I came to the training with my “single” diamond, and left with an improved Double Diamond model.”

Alvario Serrano, FrieslandCampina

Rainforest Alliance

Design Thinking in banking to boost innovation

Customer Journey Mapping for Hospitality Services

Creating new solutions to improve lives across the world

Human-centered employee experience in logistics

The training was very well-organized. It was exactly what I was looking for.”

Raimond Bakkes, Salesforce

International Committee of the Red Cross

Future Employee Experience in Luxury retail

Accelerating Innovation for Financial Services

Customer Journey Mapping for Hospitality Services

Mastercard

“Top professionals from the Design Thinking field and the hands-on approach inspired my work as a human-centered design consultant. A wonderful experience!”

Alexander Faga, Swisscom

Human-centricity in product creation process

Potential Scenario's for bartenders on how to behave in bars

The training was very well-organized. It was exactly what I was looking for.”

Raimond Bakkes, Salesforce

Rainforest Alliance

Design Thinking in banking to boost innovation

“The DT Bootcamp was a real transformation. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to understand what DT really is about.”

Pamela Caillens, Cartier

Rebuild Global Employee Ecosystem for Beverage Industries

Creating new solutions to improve lives across the world

“A refreshing and engaging experience that went beyond my expectations.”

Tupo Muocha, UNICEF

Future leadership amidst a department merge

Human-centered employee experience in logistics

I came to the training with my “single” diamond, and left with an improved Double Diamond model.”

Alvario Serrano, FrieslandCampina

“Why did we not apply Design Thinking earlier at ISO? A very powerful methodology. Great investment to accelerate career development.”

Boris Maggia, ISO

International Committee of the Red Cross

Future Employee Experience in Luxury retail

Design Thinking in banking to boost innovation

Accelerating Innovation for Financial Services

“The DT Bootcamp was a real transformation. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to understand what DT really is about.”

Pamela Caillens, Cartier

Customer Journey Mapping for Hospitality Services

Rebuild Global Employee Ecosystem for Beverage Industries

Mastercard

Creating new solutions to improve lives across the world

“Top professionals from the Design Thinking field and the hands-on approach inspired my work as a human-centered design consultant. A wonderful experience!”

Alexander Faga, Swisscom

“A refreshing and engaging experience that went beyond my expectations.”

Tupo Muocha, UNICEF

Future leadership amidst a department merge

Human-centricity in product creation process

Human-centered employee experience in logistics

Potential Scenario's for bartenders on how to behave in bars

I came to the training with my “single” diamond, and left with an improved Double Diamond model.”

Alvario Serrano, FrieslandCampina

The training was very well-organized. It was exactly what I was looking for.”

Raimond Bakkes, Salesforce

“Why did we not apply Design Thinking earlier at ISO? A very powerful methodology. Great investment to accelerate career development.”

Boris Maggia, ISO

Rainforest Alliance

International Committee of the Red Cross

Accelerating Innovation for Financial Services

Rebuild Global Employee Ecosystem for Beverage Industries

“Top professionals from the Design Thinking field and the hands-on approach inspired my work as a human-centered design consultant. A wonderful experience!”

Alexander Faga, Swisscom

Future leadership amidst a department merge

Potential Scenario's for bartenders on how to behave in bars

“Why did we not apply Design Thinking earlier at ISO? A very powerful methodology. Great investment to accelerate career development.”

Boris Maggia, ISO