Realizing total experience transformation in your business

ARTICLE | January 12, 2024

Authored by RSM US LLP

Today’s businesses face an exponentially changing marketplace. Any organization that tries to keep pace using yesterday’s processes will quickly fall behind. Instead, you must change along with it—or even proactively adapt in anticipation—by embracing new ways of working, thinking and engaging.

Human-centered design can help organizations like yours understand how user interactions drive business outcomes and gain a competitive edge in an evolving market.

By bridging the gap between your business and your most valuable resources—your customers and employees—you can create a total experience transformation that meets the real-world needs of people. In turn, you’ll be able to better achieve your key business objectives, including:

• Increased top- and bottom-line growth
• Higher employee efficiency and productivity
• Greater business profitability

Human-centered design is a strategic approach that aligns your products, processes and services with how your customers and employees interact with them. It’s not a one-time activity but an ongoing process. You should continually leverage new information about how your customers and employees interact with your organization to create more personalized and valuable experiences.

A human-centered design approach brings behavioral science, user research and analytics together to gain a deep understanding of how a customer or employee currently interacts with a process, product or service, uncovering opportunities to make engagement more intuitive and impactful. Human-centered design also helps your organization create a culture of iteration capable of evolving along with the needs and preferences of its users. Using these insights, designers can generate new thinking that fully takes user behavior into account while enabling a more adaptive and responsive design ethos.

By eliminating ambiguity, real-world pain points and friction in customers and employees’ daily lives, you can turn the human experience and user expectations into a dynamic driver of business outcomes. In addition, you can generate more empathy from your teams for the needs of users to create a forward-thinking work environment focused on solving real-world problems. Human-centered design can also help you better understand the human element of your business problems so you can incorporate the right technology solution in the most effective manner possible.

RSM delivers tools and services that enable your organization to leverage a human-centered design approach to improve your most pressing customer and employee experience challenges, ensuring alignment between business objectives and user expectations.

RSM uses a proven framework to design and implement human-centered design strategies that improve the customer and employee experience. This structured process ensures that your products, services and work processes are tailored to meet the real-world needs of prospects, customers and employees to maximize impact and drive business outcomes.

Discover

Our multidisciplinary team engages in extensive research, user interviews and site observations to gain a deep understanding of the needs, motivations and challenges of the people you want to reach. This creates the foundation for insights by ensuring a multi-faceted exploration of the user’s needs and preferences, helping your organization transcend surface-level ideas or misleading metrics.

Define

Taking the initial learnings, our team synthesizes and distills findings into clear user insights that pinpoint the exact issue to be addressed. By precisely defining the problem at hand, your organization can better focus on solutions that resonate with the user, ensuring a higher probability of success.

Develop

Once the issue is defined, our team leverages collaborative ideation, rapid prototyping and iterative testing to design, create and validate a solution. This approach ensures that the right solution is found quickly and is then refined until it

Deliver

We work side-by-side with your organization to develop and launch the most effective approach and then leverage post-launch feedback to continuously adapt the solution. This process helps the solution stay relevant to the changing needs and expectations of your audience, helping ensure that it’s sustainable over the long term and delivers maximum ROI and impact.

Here’s how our team gives your company the tools and insight to realize total experience transformation within your business through differentiated strategic thinking, poignant experiences and deeper engagement.

Strategic transformation

RSM works with you to navigate an exponentially changing world and accelerate your business objectives by reimagining and co-creating a new future through more meaningful user interactions. Services include:

• Strategic planning, alignment and prioritization
• Future-state visioning
• Service design blueprinting
• Experience transformation
• Business canvas modeling
• Systems mapping
• Innovation workshops

Experience design

From digital interactions to the physical on-site experience, RSM leverages design focused on defining user wants, needs and drivers, and providing valuable insights that deliver unparalleled experiences for your customers and employees. Services include:

• Digital product design and build
• Application development
• Website design
• SEO and analytics
• User interface and digital experience
• Physical experience design

Brand + marketing

RSM uses its deep understanding of your unique environment to bring your message and market to life with engaging visuals and targeted campaigns that build brand loyalty and conversions. Services include:

• Content strategy and copywriting
• Marketing strategy
• Campaign execution
• Brand strategy
• Visual identity
• Design on-demand
• Digital production
• Agency of record