Business Thinking for Service Designers

Hosted by Sajan Mathew

Sat, Jun 13, 2026

1:30 PM UTC (1 hour 15 minutes)

Virtual (Zoom)

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What you'll learn

Connect service design work to business impact

Learn a practical way to connect customer experience problems to measurable business and operational outcomes.

Strengthen strategic stakeholder conversations

Understand how to communicate service design work in ways decision-makers and cross-functional teams understand.

Think beyond deliverables and best practices

Explore how business thinking can influence prioritization, framing, and decision-making from the start of a project.

Why this topic matters

Many service designers create valuable customer experiences but struggle to connect their work to business outcomes. As organizations increasingly prioritize measurable impact, designers need stronger business thinking skills. This course helps in translating customer insights into business value, building compelling business cases, and communicating impact in ways leaders understand and support.

You'll learn from

Sajan Mathew

Senior Manager, Customer Experience at Autodesk

Over the past decade, I've worked at the intersection of customer experience, product management, digital transformation, and business strategy across financial services, wealth management, lending, insurance, and digital platforms.


Throughout my career, I've led and contributed to initiatives focused on improving customer experiences, streamlining operations, launching digital products, and driving measurable business outcomes.


I've worked closely with executives, product teams, designers, researchers, engineers, and frontline operations teams, giving me a unique perspective on how organizations make decisions and prioritize investments.


One challenge I've consistently observed is that many talented designers and CX practitioners struggle to connect their work to business priorities in ways that resonate with decision-makers.


The issue is rarely the quality of their thinking or the value of their work.


More often, it's the difficulty of translating customer insights into a language that leaders use to evaluate opportunities, allocate resources, and measure success. I created this course to help bridge that gap.


My goal is not to turn service designers into MBAs or financial analysts. Instead, I want to help practitioners develop the confidence and business fluency needed to connect experience improvements to organizational outcomes, build stronger business cases, communicate impact more effectively, and participate more strategically in decision-making.


The concepts in this course are drawn from real-world experience working across customer experience, product strategy, operational improvement, and business transformation initiatives.


Participants will leave with practical frameworks, tools, and ways of thinking that they can immediately apply to their own projects and organizations.

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