01 · Noren 2023 · International luxury vehicle company

Gamified Strategy

A luxury car company had renewed its UX strategy, but it lived in a document. How do you turn it into the way employees actually serve the client in front of them?
MethodsA series of co-design workshops across Finland and the Baltics, built on Business Origami: employees model their own client interactions with physical pieces on a board.
Key findingStrategy travels further as an object than as a document. The boards, a one-metre pyramid and user-story comics built shared understanding across disciplines, cultures and languages.
What changedParticipants gave great feedback on the facilitation and the preparation, and the client kept the relationship with the consultancy going after the series.

Align + (Re)design

Workshop room with participants seated, a presenter and a projected slide A Business Origami board mid-session on a workshop table: folded paper pieces standing along printed lanes labelled backstage, customer interaction area and customer world we cannot affect, with hand-drawn cards, marker pens and a set of printed feeling tokens
A session in progress, and a board mid-session. Lanes for backstage, the customer interaction, and the customer's world the company cannot affect.
Unpacking the one-metre workshop prop pyramid The finished one-metre prop pyramid with a person standing beside it
Behind the scenes, the CEO and I found out the prop pyramid was big enough to hide in.

The storyEmployees visualised their client work through Business Origami, a service design technique that makes fuzzy business systems concrete. I designed the origami boards and props, co-created the visual identity and user story comics with a graphic designer, and facilitated workshops in Finland and the Baltics, in some as our consultancy's only person in the room. The sessions were deliberately mixed-language.

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