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How To Scale Service Design: Technology

Kerry Bodine

By the end, I saw four major areas in which the discipline of service design needs to focus in order to be able to scale: technology, ubiquity, coaching, and delivery. In today’s post, I’ll talk about technology. Larry’s talk also made me think of technology like IBM Watson and Salesforce Service Cloud in a new way. Stay tuned!

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Are luxury brands swimming with or against the digital tide?

Clarivate

From virtual runway presentations to a ‘try-on’ experience using augmented reality (AR) technology, luxury brands are now braving the digital world. Our report also shows that luxury brands are adopting AR and virtual reality (VR) technologies, to bring virtual fashion shows and virtual showrooms to consumers.

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How retailers and “payviders” are disrupting U.S. healthcare in 2024

Clarivate

In 2024, watch as the global trendsetter brings to bear its technological expertise combined with a captive Prime membership, brand recognition, and national employer buy-in to re-envision healthcare that truly works around the patient. Humana is also on track to add 30 to 50 new senior-focused primary-care centers each year through 2025.

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Robots in Unexpected Places – Where Will We See Them Next?

Oracle

billion by 2025. In 2018, Alibaba opened a restaurant called Robot.he, where customers can use an app to book a table, order their food, and pay, while robots move on tracks in the restaurant, fulfilling orders. Are robots taking over? If so, it might not necessarily be a bad thing. Where will they pop up next? Agriculture.

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Boosting Your Customer Support: Human-Operated Live Chat vs Chatbots

Kayako

As an increasing number of online businesses have started getting real value from chat bots, the use of this technology has skyrocketed amongst many companies in recent years. billion in 2025. However, the 2018 State of Chatbots report found quite the opposite (we’ll talk about this in detail in the next section).

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Astea and Software AG Partner to Provide Field Service IoT Solution

Alliance by IFS

By 2025, the global number of IoT connected devices is expected to grow to 22 billion. We give you the freedom to connect and integrate any technology—from app to edge. Software AG has more than 4,700 employees, is active in 70 countries and had revenues of €866 million in 2018.

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The Role Gas Local Distribution Companies Play in Advancing Decarbonization Measures

West Monroe

In 2018, the District of Columbia published its Sustainable DC 2.0 What’s required is the right mixture of technology innovation, regulatory incentives, cost-recovery, and norms setting to propel the supply community forward in providing an improved product.