1.0 OVERVIEW OF THE SERVICE INDUSTRY We have always had service industries‚ and indeed there are numerous biblical references to services as diverse as inn keeping‚ money lending and market trading. Over time‚ the service sector has grown in volume and in the importance attributed to it. According to Baker J.M et al‚ The Marketing Book 5th Ed‚ (2003)‚ early economists saw services as being totally unproductive‚ adding nothing of value to an economy. He quotes Adam Smith as having included
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iii | Contents OGC’s foreword viii Access Management 68 Operational activities of processes covered in other lifecycle phases 72 Common Service Operation activities 79 Monitoring and control 82 5.2 IT Operations 92 vii Chief Architect’s foreword 58 5.1 vi Problem Management 4.5 v List of tables 4.4 4.6 List of figures 5 Preface ix Acknowledgements x 5.3 Mainframe Management 95 1 Introduction
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achieve international growth be it service or manufacturing sector. There are many routes for expansion such as‚ Greenfield investment‚ Joint venture‚ Mergers and acquisitions‚ sales or marketing alliances (The Economist‚ 2007). There will be many obstacles to achieve this. Services are an important part of global economy and this is increasing. While most of the international business strategies and theories which are good for manufacturing sector could be used for service firms but there are critical
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Service Quality By definition‚ a service includes several distinct characteristics. A service is intangible and difficult to store. In a service‚ customers are extensively present as participants in the process. The inseparability of a service is due to the fact that it is simultaneously produced by the provider and consumed by the customer. This is because services are heterogeneous and known to vary from service – provider to service – provider‚ from customer to customer‚ and from day to day
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IMSM-R Department of Economics Balasubrahmanyam Annam Narasimha rao Yallapragada Understanding Customer Attitudes towards TECHNOLOGY-BASED SELF-SERVICE A case study on ATMs Masters Thesis Masters in Service Management Research Date/Term: Supervisor: 2006/ Spring Lars Haglund‚ Pro-Vice Chancellor Karlstads universitet 651 88 Karlstad Tfn 054-700 10 00 Fax 054-700 14 60 Information@kau.se www.kau.se ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Over the past years we’ve been inspired and encouraged
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Generally‚ financial services refer to services provided by the finance industry either public or private finance industry. Financial services defined as services that related to facilities such as saving accounts‚ checking accounts‚ leasing‚ loans and money transfer provided by banks‚ credit unions and finance companies.1 Flower of service is a visual framework for understanding the supplementary service elements that surround and add value to the core product. Flower of service is introduced by Christopher
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Services Marketing Chapter 1:! New Perspectives On! !Marketing in the! ! !Service Economy! Slide © 2010 by Lovelock & Wirtz Services Marketing 7/e Chapter 1 – Page 1 Overview of Chapter 1! Services Marketing Why Study Services?! What are Services?! Marketing Challenges Posed by Services! Extended Marketing Mix Required for Services! Integration of Marketing with Other Management Functions! Developing Effective Service Marketing Strategies! Slide © 2010 by Lovelock
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Operations Management History The Role of Services in an economy Operations Management: Set of activities that create value in the form of goods and services‚ Timeline of OM: Crafts Manufacturing Industrial Revolution (1770 England): • Invention of steam engines‚ replaced human power • Started with textile industry • Increased use of refined coal Division of Labor (1776‚ Adam Smith) Standardized parts (1800‚ Eli Whitney)‚ interchangable parts Steam Ships (1807) Telegrapgh (1844
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SERVICE MARKETING MIX MEANING A selection of services developed to offer customers a choice within a particular range. The elements of a services marketing mix are sometimes called the seven Ps: the four Ps of the marketing mix‚ plus three Ps of services: participants‚ physical evidence‚ and process (of service assembly). [pic] Service Marketing A Service is an economic activity‚ that is intangible or not be touched
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Hospitality Service Excellence The academic circles have not formed a standard definition for service failure‚ but scholars have put forward their own understanding from different angles: Hays and Hill defined service failure ascontact situation that make customers unsatisfied(Julie Hays& Arthur‚ 2001). Keaveneypointed out that if the customers feel unsatisfied about the service system‚ then service failure occur (Crittendenet al. 1995).Keaveney has divided service failure into two types: the
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