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Duration

Nov. 2018 -

Jan. 2019

Team

Jesal Shah, Puck Veelnturf, William Hagen

Project owner

Vanderlande

Responsibilities

Organization design

Businesss Innovation

Service design

Vanderlande Experience

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.

Problems

Understanding from the customer journey

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

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Check the full customer journey

Trend analysis

Trend analysis

Forecast the future to define the direction for present

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.

“Consumers respect and remember brands that get with the times in terms of understanding what they want, reaching them in new and innovative ways and consistently delivering products and services that surpass their expectations.”

(Lisher, 2017)

Values

Values of UX for Vanderlande’s future

“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

Market Differentiation & Leadership Trendsetters, Futureproof

Guarantee of Excellence

Build Trust ‘Guarantee of Excellence’ ‘Synonomous to Reclaim Area’

Brand Equity

Gain Brand Equity amongst Customers and Users alike

Organization transformation

How does it translate to the Organization Values?

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

Co-creation

Empathy

Empathy

Strategic direction

What we propose Vanderlande to pursue in 2~5 years?

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 Presentation

Strategy of Reorganisation

Strategy of Reorganisation

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.

Organize crowd

Implement new services or improve infrastructure to organize and distribute passengers around baggage carousel

Organize crowd

Improve visibility

Change the design of baggage carousel to improve visibility of passengers

Improve visibility

Baggage Handling

Enhance the ergonomics of baggage carousel to make the baggage picking experience of passengers better

Baggage Handling
Strategic Roadmap

Strategic Roadmap

Follow both directions simultaneously and collaboratively to pursue the successful future

We visualise the roadmap of both directions for Vanderlande, which will assist them to follow and implement.

Poster demonstration

We visualise the whole thinking process and strategy.

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Brochure and toolkit

To help inhouse team of Vanderlande to understand our concept, we develop the toolkit and brochure.

The toolkit is a card-set printed with different UX design methods which can be used during co-creation workshop.

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Check the brochure

Evaluation

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.