Introduction to Services Marketing In general‚ goods can be defined as objects‚ devices‚ or things‚ whereas products refer to both goods and services. A service is any act or performance that one party can offer to another that is essentially intangible and does not result in the ownership of anything. Its production may or may not be tied to a physical product. The distinction between goods and services is not perfectly clear. Service is the sum of all encounters between a customer and a service provider
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almost all aspects of services operation have compelled the management of every service industry to place emphasis on the efficient and effective method of presenting its service. The need for marketing in service industry cannot be overemphasized‚ the degree of marketing activities in a company depends on the size of the market. Traditionally‚ executives in service industries have not been market driven. They have lagged behind sellers of products in accepting the marketing concept and have generally
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Measuring Customer Expectations of Service Quality: case Airline Industry Logistics Master ’s thesis Ekaterina Tolpa 2012 Department of Information and Service Economy Aalto University School of Economics Measuring Customer Expectations of Service Quality: case Airline Industry Master’s Thesis Ekaterina Tolpa 06.06.2012 Information and Service Management Approved in the Department of Information and Service Economy _____________ and awarded the grade _______________ _________________________________________
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Service Marketing 10MBAMM314 Syllabus Module I Introduction to services: What are services‚ Why service marketing‚ Difference in goods and service in marketing‚ Myths about services‚ Concept of service marketing triangle‚ Service marketing mix‚ GAP models of service quality Module II Consumer behaviour in services: Search‚ Experience and Credence property‚ Customer expectation of services‚ Two levels of expectation‚ Zone of tolerance‚ Factors influencing customer expectation of services Customer
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GAP Analysis: A technique that businesses use to determine what steps needed to be taken in order to move from its current state to its desired‚ future state. Also called need-gap analysis‚ needs analysis‚ and needs assessment. Gap analysis consists of (1) listing of characteristic factors (such as attributes‚ competencies‚ performance levels) of the present situation ("what is")‚ (2) listing factors needed to achieve future objectives ("what should be")‚ and then (3) highlighting the gaps that
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CSR Gap Analysis of the GAP Gap Inc prefaces their 2004/5 CSR report with the question: what is a company’s role in society? Their answer is that a company ‘only realizes its full potential when it embraces its role as a global citizen’. This raises two interesting points; the first is that the answer to the question ‘what is a company’s role in society?’ will be conditioned by normative assumptions about business/government relations in a firm’s country of incorporation. David Detomasi
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concept of Customer Service Management based on customer involvement with Hotel-81. Researches in this report include academic journal articles‚ press release‚ newspaper report and textbook references dated no later than year 2008. In order to attain value co-creation‚ examinations of Critical Incidents and Zone of Tolerance behaviour in service encounter were used to study the target audience of Hotel-81. Models such as the SERVQUAL‚ Servicescape‚ Service Blueprint and Service Encounter traits were
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------------------------------------------------- SERVICE QUALITY GAP IN RESTAURANTS IN VARANASI Under the Guidance of Dr. Ashutosh Mohan By:- Prachi Prabha Chauhan(31) Jitendra Singh(19) MBA-IB (2010-2012) INTRODUCTION The restaurant industry is a demanding sector that stresses the provision of high-level customer service and continuous quality improvement. As lifestyles change and dining out becomes more and more commonplace‚ customers desire new flavors‚ comfortable ambience and pleasant
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Introduction Lusch et al. (2007) describe as marketing emerged in the beginning of the 20th century‚ it embraced the goods-dominant (G-D) logic. The concept of the Four Ps of marketing mix – product‚ price‚ place and promotion became treated as the basic model at that time. (Grönroos‚ 1989) Today‚ this paradigm is beginning to lose its position. Service marketing is one leading new approach to marketing. Four main characteristics of services defined by Kotler et al. (2009) are intangible‚ perishable
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Hinduja‚ our guide at Emergent Meditech (I) Pvt. Ltd. for his constant encouragement and continuous help in terms of suggestion‚ guidance and expertise during my summer internship. Also‚ I am thankful toMiss. Nisha ‚ Ms. Akansha and Mr. Arshad Marketing team at Emergent Meditech‚ for giving me the moral support and helping me to accomplish the training successfully. I sincerely express my thanks to my internal guide Dr.Suhas Tambe for his valuable guidance and timely suggestions. I am indebted
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