How to effectively measure a service / Tim Dekker / Circle #14

Let's talk about a service designer's favorite topic... measuring impact. Why is it so d*mn hard!? We'll get to that in a minute. Of course, the idea behind measuring the impact of your work is smart. When done right, it helps you to stay on track. Make sure your efforts actually make a positive contribution. And show you if you need to redirect your efforts to something else. But often, we find that many things inside organizations are measured because they are easy to express in numbers... not because they are the right indicators of success. And this is exactly the challenge we run into as a service design community. Showing the impact of our work across an entire service or customer journey is not easy. But this shouldn't stop us from trying, right? That's why in a recent Circle community session, we explored: How to overcome the limitations of existing ways of measuring How to measure things that span multiple channels and departments How to build a useful CX dashboard Tim Dekker hosted the conversation, and I invited Tim to share the highlights from that session with you. --- [ 1. EPISODE GUIDE ] --- 00:00 Welcome to the Show 04:30 Why this topic? 05:45 Who is Tim? 06:45 What do we have to gain? 10:00 Stuck in the middle 12:30 Leading and lagging indicators 14:30 Justifying our value 16:30 Where are these metrics 19:00 Getting started 24:30 Building your CX dashboard 27:45 Who wanted to hear this 30:00 Visualize the outcome 32:00 Physical services 34:00 How do you sell it 40:00 Lessons learned 42:30 New questions 44:30 The illusion of control 45:45 Key takeaways --- [ 2. CIRCLE ] --- If you'd like to be part of these conversations as they happen rather than just getting the summary on the podcast, consider joining us in the Circle. www.servicedesignshow.com/circle/