CASE ANALYSIS Starbucks: Delivering Customer Service MARKETING-II DATE OF SUBMISSION-19.11.2012 SUBMITTED BY:- SECTION-C‚ GROUP 13: Abhijit Das- 2012PGP005 Ashwin Vijayan- 2012PGP073 Kumar Abhishek- 2012PGP178 Payal Anand- 2012FPM10 Rajat- 2012PGP292 Sumit Bapuji Gedam- 2012PGP382 Vikash Kumar- 2012PGP438 Situational Analysis Customers: Affluent‚ well-educated‚ white-collar patrons(skewed female) between the ages of 25 and 44 Most loyal customers visit Starbucks as often as 18 times a month
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Introduction In 1982 Howard Schultz‚ an employee of a small coffee-bean store called "Starbucks" was enlightened while sipping an espresso in a coffee shop in Milan‚ and the rest is history. He envisioned America’s "third place" next to home and work‚ where coffee-connoisseurs could linger and relax in a classy‚ pseudo-European atmosphere while enjoying their favorite bean beverage. After buying the company a few years later‚ he vigorously pursued his vision of selling a wide-selection of hand-crafted
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PROBLEM STATEMENT Starbucks has discovered that they are not always meeting their customers’ expectations in the area of customer satisfaction. Starbucks has to come up with an action plan to address this issue‚ considering its significant correlation and impact to sales and profitability. SITUATION ANALYSIS Company Starbucks is acclaimed for its superior value proposition in the early 1990’s by creating an experience around the consumption of coffee‚ a ‘third place’. The brand is positioned
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Based on Harvard Business School Case Author(s): Youngme Moon‚ John A. Quelch Description: Starbucks‚ the dominant specialty-coffee brand in North America‚ must respond to recent market research indicating that the company is not meeting customer expectations in terms of service. To increase customer satisfaction‚ the company is debating a plan that would increase the amount of labor in the stores and theoretically increase speed-of-service. However‚ the impact of the plan (which would cost
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1. Based on the three customer personas‚ which customer segment should Ontela target? Ontela should targe the teen segment. The size of the segment is big and wide‚ they are usually early adapters of technology (lots are tech savvy) their purchasing power is huge‚. Moreover‚ the segment is substantial‚ and can make ontela increase its revenues. This segment uses the internet alot and the social network‚ e.g. facebook‚. There can be the domino effect and more friends may join this service. As youth
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My Starbucks Idea Brews Customer Feedback at Starbucks Starbucks Corporation is an international coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle‚ Washington‚ United States. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world‚ with 16‚120 stores in 49 countries‚ including around 11‚000 in the United States‚ followed by nearly 1‚000 in Canada and more than 800 in Japan. The company culture focuses on customers and what they have to say. And here Starbucks faced the challenge: how to shape conversations
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Running head: STARBUCKS CASE ANALYSIS Starbucks Case Analysis: Delivering Customer Service Abstract Headquarted in Seattle‚ Washington‚ Starbucks is the dominant brand as the provider of premium coffee beans‚ coffee-based beverages‚ and non-caffeinated beverages. Starbucks opened its first location in 1971 at Pike Place Market in Seattle. Starbucks’ main proposition is to create an “experience” around the event of drinking coffee that its consumers would incorporate into the routines of
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1. What factors accounted for the extraordinary success of Starbucks in the early 1990’s. What was so compelling about the Starbucks’ value proposition? What brand image did Starbucks develop during this period? Factors: • Environment/atmosphere • Quality of the product • Customer Service • Employee satisfaction • Specific demographic targeting • An almost untapped market Value Proposition: • The customer (and customer service) above all else. • Coffee drinking as an experience
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Why have Starbucks satisfaction scores declined? Has the company’s service declined or is it simply measuring satisfaction the wrong way? Based on the data in the case‚ we can’t conclude if the company’s service is declining or is there is an error in measuring satisfaction the wrong way. What is clear though is the fact that the customer perception‚ customer’s attitude and the overall differentiation of the Starbucks brand have declined. It is possible that competition‚ shift in customer demographics
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