Electronic Commerce: Products and Services Learning Objectives Upon completion of this chapter‚ you will be able to: 1. Describe electronic retailing (e-tailing) and its characteristics. 2. Define and describe the primary e-tailing business models. 3. Describe how online travel and tourism services operate and their impact on the industry. 4. Discuss the online employment market‚ including its participants‚ benefits‚ and limitations. 5. Describe online real estate services. 6. Discuss
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Accounting Treatment of Intangible Asset Draft Pace University ACC692 Summer I By Yigal Rechtman July 30‚ 2001 Introduction What is the problem? Accounting for intangibles has gained prominence in the past few decades due to changes in the way the business world operates. The technological revolution and in particular‚ the information age‚ has brought intangible resources to the fore of the business environment. Businesses ( even the most traditional production manufacturers ( are
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Intangible benefits are of course benefits that are of a non-monetary nature. Simply put‚ the intangible benefits of a new stadium vastly outweigh the economic ones. One could argue that the sole purpose of building a new stadium is to appease to the intangible benefits of the city. First and foremost‚ a new stadium will ensure that the professional sports franchise stays in the city. As shown with the Rams recently‚ fans take a great pride in supporting teams in their cities and even the thought
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i4.1 Best product value strategies: As the world’s largest furniture retailer‚ IKEA is known for its product’s value‚ in terms of quality‚ style‚ affordability‚ functionality and durability. Their appliances and furniture is designed base on modern architecture and associated with eco-friendly interior design. Moreover‚ the company is known for its affordable products with highest quality and products with many functions inside. Therefore‚ its business idea is "To offer a wide range of well designed
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customer service Bitner‚ Fisk and Brown (1993) suggest that the major output from the services marketing literature up to 1980 was the delineation of four services characteristics: intangibility‚ inseparability‚ heterogeneity and perishability. These characteristics underpinned the case for services marketing and made services a field of marketing that was distinct from the marketing of products. The literature highlights intangibility as one of the key characteristics of services. Regan (1963)
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Marketing mix - Product Agenda ✦ Product ✦ Service ✦ Product life cycle ✦ Experience Aim: transform strategic decisions already take into a sustainable and attracted commercial offer. From a managerial point the key question is: how can we transform our decision‚ our value proposition into something that can be bought by the market? We have to consider that there are several models that have been suggested over time to depict from a managerial view point what marketing mix meansthey clarify the
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Council (FRC)‚ Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB). While these are only a few regulatory bodies in the industry‚ they all have their own set of regulations to enforce. ASIC‚ for example‚ regulate the Corporations Act 2001 along with the Australian Accounting Standards. While ASIC ensure that organisations adhere to the regulations laid out before them‚ the AASB create and develop those standards applicable to Australian entities
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of New Products and Services It involve bringing two separate elements into accord: customer satisfaction and technical feasibility. R&D Objectives: 1. The definition of the target market 2. The product’s concept 3. The benefits the product will deliver 4. How the product will be positioned in the market 5. The product’s features‚ attributes‚ design specifications and requirements Product Strategy Quality Function Deployment (QFD) Alternative managerial technique for product development
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Product Design and Process Selection - Services Case: Creature Care Animal Clinic 1. Identify the operations management problems that Dr. Barr is having at the clinic. Dr‚ Barr is experiencing several operations problems due to a change in what customers are requesting compared to the services the clinic was designed to offer. The increase in specialized services and the addition of grooming requires a different layout. Not only have the space requirements changed but some non-contact services
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Four Characteristics of Services Russell Wolak‚ Stavros Kalafatis and Patricia Harris* Kingston Business School Kingston Hill Kingston upon Thames Surrey KT2 7LB Phone 0181 547 2000 Fax 0181 547 7026 E-mail p.harris@kingston.ac.uk ABSTRACT This study replicates US-based research by Hartman and Lindgren on the extent to which consumers differentiate between products and services. In addition‚ Hartman and Lindgren investigated the importance of four characteristics of services to consumers; intangibility
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