Customer Service - Principles of Service Marketing and Management - C Lovelock & L Wright

... such failures. Underlying such failures is often a lack of understanding of some of the key principles of service marketing and management. Technological change affects many other types of services, ... motor vehicles, and electrical and mechanical equipment. Supplementary services once designed to help sell equip- ment—including consultation, credit, transportation and delivery, installation, ... study- ing is itself a complex service organization. In addition to educational services, today's college facilities usually include libraries and cafeterias, counseling, a book- store, placement...

... Force. These includefacilities services (building maintenance, custodial services, securityservices, and landscaping), telecommunications (information tech-nology services, computing, help ... the DoD include commercial services for installations and facilitiessuch as building maintenance, grounds keeping, and janitorial serv-ices; professional services such as consulting and engineering ... have only recently explored applying such ap-proaches to purchasing services. Through interviews with well-respected chief purchasing officers and other executives involved in service acquisitions,...

... goals.Remove common obstacles.Achieve collective profitabilityHow?By removing inefficiencies and duplicity of efforts in each discrete value chain.Collaborate together to link ... analyticsCommunication utilitiesE-mail, IM, real-time voice, weblogsE-mail list management and opt in / out best practice (CAN-SPAM ACT)Online advertising or “soft branding”E-commerce siteDrive ... informationVirtual supply chainsVirtual marketsVirtual real-time interaction with customers & suppliersScalabilityAbility to coalesce and reach increasingly fragmented marketsStreamline business...

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