About

Thought leader Marc Stickdorn is a German trainer and consultant for service design thinking. He lives in Innsbruck/Austria where he co-founded two start-ups.

Consulting

Thought leader Marc Stickdorn is a German trainer and consultant for service design thinking. He lives in Innsbruck/Austria where he co-founded two start-ups.

He internationally supports both private and public organizations to build up knowledge in the field of service design. He supports them to apply service design within their organizational structures and processes aiming to break down silos, reduce development costs of new products and services and to increase customer experience. Marc is associate of DesignThinkers Academy in Amsterdam/NL and WorkPlayExperience in Nuremberg/GER. In 2010, Marc and Jakob Schneider published the award-winning book “This is Service Design Thinking”.

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Smaply

In 2012 Marc co-founded smaply, a software company developing software for service design.

Smaply is a web-based software to visualize customer experiences with personas, stakeholder maps, and customer journey maps.

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Research

With a background in strategic management and information systems, Marc is a visiting / adjunct professor at various business and design schools.

He published numerous academic papers on service design and ethnography – including two best paper awards. He pursues a PhD at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany in information systems – Innovation and Value Creation.

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ExperienceFellow

In his research, he developed the innovative research approach of mobile ethnography using smartphones to collect real data from customers.

This research led to his latest start-up in 2013: the academic spin-off ExperienceFellow. A combination of mobile apps and web-based software to research customer experience through mobile ethnography.

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Talks & Keynotes

SDD Berlin: Fireside chat 2021

Journey Map Ops

SDD Berlin: Fireside chat 2021
1:17 hour
online

Interview

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SDN Dallas 2020: Masters of Service Design #1

Journey Map Ops / Journey Management

SDN Dallas 2020: Masters of Service Design #1
1:20 hour
online

Interview

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Service Design Show 2016 Episode #1

A Customer Journey Map is not a ****ing deliverable

Service Design Show 2016 Episode #1
27 min.
online

Interview

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From Business To Buttons 2019

Doing is the Hard Part: How to Embed Service Design in Organizations

From Business To Buttons 2019
30 min.
Stockholm/Sweden

Talk

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IKEA International MBA Challenge Week 2014

Teaching service design at IE business school 2014

IKEA International MBA Challenge Week 2014
3 min.
on site

Teaching MBA

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IxDA Interaction Latin America 2018

Service Design & Organisational Change: How to bring service design in startups and multinationals

IxDA Interaction Latin America 2018
50 min.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Keynote

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Trainings

Public
and exclusive
training

Get in touch for an individual offer for consulting, a talk or a workshop. Or have a look at the public service design courses „This is Service Design Doing“ and „Journey Map Operations“.

Books & Software

SOFTWARE

Smaply

Visualize customer experiences.

A web-based software to create customer journey maps, stakeholder maps and personas. Marc’s first start-up co-founded with Jakob and Klaus.

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Book

#TiSDT

This is Service Design Thinking

An award-winning book on service design Marc published with Jakob in 2010. Available as hardcopy (beautiful), paperback (useful), and ebook (ugly). Translated into 7 languages. More than 70.000 copies sold.

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“I would recommend Journey Map Operations to anyone who wants to build End-to-End visibility of Customer Experience, break silos and unite their organization around customers and users. Marc gives lots of practical recommendations as well as strong inspirations. Make sure you do ask questions as Q&A is something I have found particularly amazing in this very hands-on course.”

Nikita Zachinskiy
Behavioural Scientist, Vodafone NZ

“The Customer Journey Ops course with Marc is a great opportunity to learn and practice how you can build, connect and manage your customer journeys in a way that's relevant and useful for your organization. Marc provides theoretical grounds along with his insights and examples from different industries that help you and your team to build a clear repository of journeys that can be linked together and introduced into a journey mapping software tool as a single source of truth. This is a course that will help you build a foundation for a systematic approach to managing and designing better customer experiences across your organization.”

Ana Osredkar
Co-founder and director – Servis 8, Slovenia

“Work in CX/EX or UX and manage Journey Ops in your org and need to have all of your E2E Journey experiences shareable on different layers of management and leadership within the org, maintain and score your growth opportunities, make quick on-the-fly adjustments to all touch-points for optimal product and service delivery. It might be an excellent tool for you.”

Thomas Wilson
VP of Digital & Integrated Commerce at Maersk

Get in Touch
with Marc Stickdorn

Get in touch for an individual offer for consulting, a talk or a workshop.