Is Your Service Design Work Based on Fiction? How process mining exposes the reality behind service flows to uncover opportunities and accelerate impact

Service design has long focused on making sense of complexity – mostly through established qualitative methods. For decades, we have mapped customer journeys, visualised stakeholder relationships and built service blueprints to better understand human experiences.

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Touchpoint
Published
2025-09-19
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https://doi.org/10.30819/touchpoint.16-3.14
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Business Process Modeling and Analysis
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Is Your Service Design Work Based on Fiction? How process mining exposes the reality behind service flows to uncover opportunities and accelerate impact

Ricardo Martins
Touchpoint
Business Process Modeling and Analysis
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Is Your Service Design Work Based on Fiction? How process mining exposes the reality behind service flows to uncover opportunities and accelerate impact

Ricardo Martins
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Abstract

Service design has long focused on making sense of complexity – mostly through established qualitative methods. For decades, we have mapped customer journeys, visualised stakeholder relationships and built service blueprints to better understand human experiences.

TouchpointVol. 16(3)
Openalex Percentile: Top 58%
Business Process Modeling and Analysis
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Is Your Service Design Work Based on Fiction? How process mining exposes the reality behind service flows to uncover opportunities and accelerate impact — Ricardo Martins · Touchpoint (2025) | TGRS Research Map | TGRS