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Product & service design consulting
Design, launch, iterate, and scale products and services at speed. Our product and service design consultants can help you build the exceptional products and high-performing teams that help you go from vision to value, faster.
You have a clear vision for a user-centred service or product, but organisational friction is getting in the way of delivery. Great strategies can stall when confronted with rigid departmental silos, hierarchical management structures, and a resistance to adopting agile, iterative ways of working. This disconnect can leave product and service leaders struggling to align teams around a shared goal, prove the value of their work, and deliver the seamless experiences that their users expect.
Our product and service design consulting services transform and empower teams to become more agile, resilient, and able to deliver on desired outcomes. We will help you respond faster to changing customer needs, unlock value sooner, improve alignment across teams, and achieve higher return on your investment.
The benefits & impact of getting your product and service design right
Solve the right problems
When your teams are united by a deep understanding of customer needs and pain points, they stop asking "what can we build?" and start asking "what problem can we solve?", leading to truly innovative products and services.
Build a culture of innovation
Empower teams with clear purpose and autonomy to foster a resilient, agile, and creative culture that attracts and retains top talent, driving success from the inside out.
Maximise your ROI
By focusing your teams on the features customers value, you can get a faster, more significant return on your product development budget.
Accelerate your time-to-market
Prototype, test, learn, and iterate to deliver value to customers, outpace competitors, respond to market shifts, and capture lucrative opportunities before they disappear.
How we can help
Build a high-performing, product-centric culture
A shift to product-centricity is a cultural transformation. Through hands-on coaching for your teams and leadership, we help embed the behaviours needed to innovate and self-organise, creating an environment where agile teams can thrive. This ensures stakeholders are aligned, and your organisation can deliver value to customers continuously, not just at the end of a project.
Create a clear product strategy
We help you cut through complexity to define a product vision that solves real problems and aligns with your core business objectives. Using outcome-based roadmaps, we guide you in identifying and delivering the highest-value features first, accelerating learning and maximising your return on investment. This strategic focus ensures your teams are always working on what matters most, building solutions that resonate in the market and deliver measurable success.
Align people, processes, and technology
Fragmented systems and siloed departments often create disjointed user and customer experiences. We bring an end-to-end perspective, helping you redesign entire service journeys across departmental boundaries. Our pragmatic approach breaks down complex challenges into manageable, iterative steps, allowing you to demonstrate early wins and build momentum. We’ll help you align your people, processes, and technology around a unified vision, creating the seamless experiences your customers expect.
Design for revenue
Valuable insights are often hidden within your lead-to-cash journey. Analysing the entire process can reveal critical friction points and commercial opportunities. These findings can provide a foundation to ensure the development roadmap prioritises features that have a direct commercial impact. Focusing on those that simplify quoting, or enable up-selling means that new features are designed not just for the user, but to strengthen the bottom line. Applying our end-to-end service design methods, we work across sales, product, and finance teams to map this commercial journey, uncover hidden inefficiencies, and translate these findings into a prioritised backlog built to drive revenue.
A shift to product-centricity is a cultural transformation. Through hands-on coaching for your teams and leadership, we help embed the behaviours needed to innovate and self-organise, creating an environment where agile teams can thrive. This ensures stakeholders are aligned, and your organisation can deliver value to customers continuously, not just at the end of a project.
We help you cut through complexity to define a product vision that solves real problems and aligns with your core business objectives. Using outcome-based roadmaps, we guide you in identifying and delivering the highest-value features first, accelerating learning and maximising your return on investment. This strategic focus ensures your teams are always working on what matters most, building solutions that resonate in the market and deliver measurable success.
Fragmented systems and siloed departments often create disjointed user and customer experiences. We bring an end-to-end perspective, helping you redesign entire service journeys across departmental boundaries. Our pragmatic approach breaks down complex challenges into manageable, iterative steps, allowing you to demonstrate early wins and build momentum. We’ll help you align your people, processes, and technology around a unified vision, creating the seamless experiences your customers expect.
Valuable insights are often hidden within your lead-to-cash journey. Analysing the entire process can reveal critical friction points and commercial opportunities. These findings can provide a foundation to ensure the development roadmap prioritises features that have a direct commercial impact. Focusing on those that simplify quoting, or enable up-selling means that new features are designed not just for the user, but to strengthen the bottom line. Applying our end-to-end service design methods, we work across sales, product, and finance teams to map this commercial journey, uncover hidden inefficiencies, and translate these findings into a prioritised backlog built to drive revenue.
Our product and service design consulting services
Product maturity assessment
Whether you are launching your first product or are in the midst of a wider transformation, we can build an actionable path to product-centricity.
Product strategy and vision development
Create a clear, actionable product strategy that aligns stakeholders and guides delivery teams. This involves defining the target user, the ‘problems to be solved’, and the key measures of success, ensuring all efforts contribute to your organisation’s strategic objectives.
Product ways-of-working
Instil product-centric practices across your teams through hands-on coaching and support. Adopt agile methodologies to enable iterative value delivery and accelerate learning cycles. Transform underlying behaviours and operating models to build a supportive environment, ensuring your teams are equipped for long-term, product-centric success.
Service design and user research
Uncover deep insights into user behaviours, needs, and motivations. Using proven research techniques and UX design thinking principles, this work informs the creation of intuitive, effective, and desirable services that truly solve user problems and meet their requirements.
Product team structure and governance
Establish the optimal organisational design, roles, and processes for effective product-centric delivery. This creates an environment where cross-functional teams are empowered with the autonomy and accountability needed to build, run, and iterate on their products.
Product launches
Define a clear go-to-market plan for your new product to ensure a successful launch. Orchestrate readiness across all business functions and create an outcome-based roadmap that delivers immediate value. Establish key metrics to measure launch success and guide future iterations, ensuring your product continues to evolve with user needs.
Product management
Manage the entire product lifecycle, from initial discovery to market scaling. Uncover user needs through deep research, launch iterative MVPs to accelerate learning, and continuously optimise the product roadmap to deliver value.
What our clients say
It's been a pleasure working alongside Clarasys over the last year or so, and they've effortlessly embedded themselves within the broader team, understood the complex landscape and got to the very nub of the problem. Not only have they helped teams understand product ways of working, but they've also helped begin shift the behaviours and cultures, to ensure that the adoption of product ways of working has best chance of sticking, and delivers its promises.
[Clarasys provides] great change and technology delivery support, including access to reliable third parties. The team embeds really well with the business. I love working with such a friendly and collaborative team!
Karen Winter
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Meet the experts
Mark Dunwell
Mark has 15 years public sector experience and specialises in delivering citizen-facing services, internal products and complex programmes. He is a strong advocate for designing products and services with users at their heart by focusing on culture and outcomes to create value quickly. He leads our government and healthcare teams across the UK and US ensuring our people are set up for success when delivering on projects, managing our ecosystem of delivery partners and growing our client base. When not at work, you’ll often find him on his bike (as long as the weather is good) or learning with limited success about how different wines are made. .
Moray Busch
Moray joined Clarasys in 2018 and specialises in business / digital transformation and rapid innovation that is delivered agile in uncertain and complex environments. Within those initiatives, his key skills in business analysis, product management, service design and delivery management enable the team to connect top-level strategy to meaningful direction on the ground and embed new behaviours. Primarily working with the C-Suite and senior officials, Moray has launched products in FTSE 100 firms, launched multiple national high-profile government services, effectively combined and separated organisations after mergers & acquisitions, prepared firms to operate post-Brexit, defined CX strategy, and ultimately created better organisations that are in a position to navigate uncertainty independently after the engagement. He is certified as Scrum Master, Product Owner, Scaled Agile, Lean yellow belt and Prosci Change Practitioner