Paper No.88: Experience and expertise: key issues for developing innovation capabilities through service design.

Paper No.88

Experience and expertise: key issues for developing innovation capabilities through service design.
Katarina Wetter-Edman, Lisa Malmberg

Abstracta
Public organisations need to rethink the ways they innovate and improve their services. Service design has become a means to achieve innovation capabilities through service design projects with the purpose of both enhancing innovation capabilities, and creating new service. Based on observations, interviews and project documentations this exploratory paper reflects on the role and articulation of design expertise, how and if it may be transferred through design projects. Further, the relation between learning by doing and learning through expert examples is discussed through a pragmatist lens.