Nov. 2018 -
Jan. 2019
Jesal Shah, Puck Veelnturf, William Hagen
Vanderlande
Organization design
Businesss Innovation
Service design
As the main baggage carrier of various airports, Vanderlande is famous for their prominent operation. Their back-end systems of the baggage handling process are efficient, reliable and well thought through. However, these qualities are not well translated to the front-end of the process, as seen by the end-consumers.
Hence we aim to extend Vanderlande’s back-end excellence to the front-end of the baggage handling process, for inbound passengers in the airport, in-turn enhancing the customer experience.
Through observation and interviews, the customer journey was visualised. Even though Vanderlande achieves high-quality baggage-handling process in the back-end, the end-consumers couldn't experience the same quality in the front-end baggage carousel.
Poor visibility
Unequally distributed crowd
Unergonomic
Impatience
Insecurity
Anxiety
Based on the trend analysis, we visualized three future scenarios for baggage carousel in the airport, such as Personalised Reclaim Pods, Fleet, Baggage-less travel.
In order to sustain a competitive advantage in possible future scenarios, Vanderlande needs to invest in implementing UX into their innovation process.
(Lisher, 2017)
“One principle that such companies understand well is the difference
between profit or loss on a single transaction and profit over the lifetime of their relationship
with a single customer.”
(Treacy & Wiersema, 1993)
Market Differentiation & Leadership Trendsetters, Futureproof
Build Trust ‘Guarantee of Excellence’ ‘Synonomous to Reclaim Area’
Gain Brand Equity amongst Customers and Users alike
Being empathetic to understand customers' need and owning mindset to co-develop future products with multiple stakeholders are important for the UX-driven corporation.
Co-creation
Empathy
Based on our study, we proposed two directions which resonates with each other.
Strategy of
Presentation is to focus on Current product range incremental changes to incorporate UX,
which will helps improve brand visibility of Vanderlande and allow inhouse team to understand the
nuances of UX. Strategy of Reorganisation is to incorporate UX in the brand ethos which
will develop a strong UX -oriented team to be future-proof.
Strategy of Presentation
Strategy of Reorganisation
Through small incremental changes, Vanderlande employees can engage and experience the impact of UX within the reclaim area. They will form the basis for the future organizational changes within Vanderlande to incorporate UX in their Brand DNA.
Implement new services or improve infrastructure to organize and distribute passengers around baggage carousel
Change the design of baggage carousel to improve visibility of passengers
Enhance the ergonomics of baggage carousel to make the baggage picking experience of passengers better
We visualise the roadmap of both directions for Vanderlande, which will assist them to follow and implement.
The toolkit is a card-set printed with different UX design methods which can be used during co-creation workshop.
Overall positive feedback was received from the project owner with some criticism in the implementation level of strategy. According to the feedback given in presentation day, the project owner is looking for a way to push strategic design innovation instead of technology-driven innovation. Hence our strategic directions correspond to the requirements. During the market day, we also noticed the concepts are well agreed with multiple inhouse members.
Nonetheless, the reasons for and practical values for Vanderlande pursuing UX is still too weak to convince CTO to follow our strategy. Even though embedding UX thinking in company core is important, the implementation will be difficult without well-thought planning.