Case #4: Bridging the Gap As customers once knew‚ The Gap was a popular fashion apparel store that attracted many people to it. However‚ this is no longer the case in the present day. So what happened? According to the case‚ competitors are gaining market share with cheaper and fresher fashion designs. One of the problems Gap (including other retailers) is the rising costs of raw materials. Gap said this would force them to raise their prices on items by 20 percent‚ but the customers
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The Gaps Model of Service Quality Chapter2-1 2 The Customer Gap – Gap 5 The Provider Gaps: Gap 1 – The Listening Gap not knowing what customers expect Gap 2 – The Design and Standards Gap not having the right service designs and standards Gap 3 – The Performance Gap not delivering to service standards Gap 4 – The Communication Gap not matching performance to promises Putting It All Together: Closing the Gaps McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2009
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business is‚ even the future success of a business (Karl‚ 2009). For service marketing‚ which is the form of marketing focuses on processes deeds and performances‚ service quality is only way for customers to evaluate their experiences (Susamoo‚ 2012). Hence‚ the service quality is one of the most important factors that any service organisation should face. Service quality can be defined as ‘a customers ’ perception of how well a service meets or exceeds their expectations’ (Seth‚ Deshmukh & Vrat
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Jyske Bank was established in 1967 after merging four Danish banks operating in Jutland. Jyske Bank had been considered as a typical Danish bank‚ which is prudent‚ conservative‚ well managed and undifferentiated till the late 1990s. However‚ with the new strategy‚ the bank developed to guide differentiation from the mid of 1990s among great amount of Danish banking customer satisfaction. Q1. What is Jyske Bank’s new positioning or competitive differentiation strategy? Base on the case‚ Jyske
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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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History of the Gaps Model The gaps model of service quality was first developed by a group of authors at Texas A&M and North Carolina Universities‚ in 1985. Based on exploratory studies of service such as executive interviews and focus groups in four different service businesses‚ the authors proposed a conceptual model of service quality indicating that consumers’ perception toward a service quality depends on the gaps existing in organization – consumer environments. Theory of the Gaps Model Perceived
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Gaps model of Service Quality The success of 7-eleven The Gaps model of service quality was first developed by Parasuraman‚ Berry and Zeithaml in 1985 and more recently described in Zeithml and Bitner in 2003. The model identifies four spectfic gaps leading to a fifth overall gap between customers’ expectations and perceived service. Knowledge gap The first gap may occur when management identify the customer’s expectation inaccurately. When the customer expectation has difference with the management
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Gaps Model of Service Quality The 4 gaps in the Gaps Model are knowledge gap‚ standards gap‚ delivery gap and communication gap. Knowledge gap is the difference between customers’ expectations and the retailer’s perception of these customer’s expectations. This occurs when a person do not know what the customers expect or want. By applying knowledge gap to H&M retail store‚ it refers to the salesperson not knowing what their customers expect/want. For example‚ a customer visiting the H&M
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Question 1: What is Jyske Bank’s new positioning or competitive differentiation strategy? Ans: The Jyske Group is Danish bank that is owned and operated as a business. The company attaches great importance to treating their three groups of stakeholders- shareholders‚ customers and employees – with equal respect. If the balance shifts in favor of one or two of the groups‚ this will be to the long-term detriment of all groups (Zeithmal‚ Bitner and Gremler 1996). The bank’s core values are
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The Gap model of service quality was developed by Parasuraman‚ Berry and Zeithaml (1985)‚ and more recently described in Zeithaml and Bitner (2003). It has served as a framework for research in services marketing‚ including hospitality marketing‚ for over two decades. The model identifies four specific gaps leading to a fifth overall gap between customers’ expectations and perceived service. The five gaps Customers have expectations for service experiences and they use them to measure
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