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Designing for Change : How service designers orchestrate business transformation at scale
Daniel Tuitt
Touchpoint - Business Transformation by Design 16 No. 3 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.30819/touchpoint.16-3.03 pp: 14-18 2025-09-19
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Tuitt, D. (2025). Designing for Change : How service designers orchestrate business transformation at scale. Touchpoint - Business Transformation by Design, 16 (3), 14-18. doi:10.30819/touchpoint.16-3.03
@article{Tuitt_2025,
doi = {10.30819/touchpoint.16-3.03},
url = {https://doi.org/10.30819/touchpoint.16-3.03},
year = 2025,
publisher = {Logos Verlag Berlin},
volume = {16},
number = {3},
pages = {14-18},
author = {Daniel Tuitt},
title = {Designing for Change : How service designers orchestrate business transformation at scale},
journal = {Touchpoint - Business Transformation by Design}
}
Abstract
This article explores how service design can respond to one of
the most persistent business challenges of our time: the high
failure rate of transformation efforts. One of the biggest challenges
that service designers face in transformation work is legitimacy –
how do you influence change when you don’t control the levers
of power? Research from AIM Business School suggests that
up to 70 percent of transformation efforts fail to achieve their
intended outcomes (AIM, 2023). While organisations often
invest heavily in strategy and delivery, many overlook the human
dynamics that make change stick – especially the challenge
of influence across silos, functions and power structures.
By shifting our perspective, service designers can unlock a
more systemic, relational approach to enabling lasting impact.