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- 1. Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Canada Services Marketing, Canadian Edition Chapter 8- 1
Chapter 8
Designing and
Managing Service
Processes
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Learning Objectives - Chapter 8
Discover how blueprinting creates satisfied customers and
productive operations
Explore how service process redesign improves quality and
productivity
Analyse the role of customer as co-producer
Determine customer acceptance of self-service
technologies (SST)
Control of uncooperative or abusive customers
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Blueprinting Services to
Create Valued Experiences and
Productive Operations
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Blueprinting the Restaurant Experience: Act
1 (Fig 8.1)
Make
Reservation
Coat Room
Valet
Parking
Accept
reservation
Greet
customer,
take car keys
Greet, take
coat, coat
checks
Check
availability,
insert booking
Take car to
parking lot
Hang coat with
visible check
numbers
Maintain
reservation
system
Maintain
(or rent)
facilities
Maintain
facilities/
equipment
Line of
interaction
Line of
visibility
Line of
internal
physical
interaction
Contact person
(visible actions)
Contact person
(invisible
actions)
Front
-
Stage
Back
-
Stage
…
Timeline Act 1
Physical
Evidence
Service Standards
and Scripts
Support
Processes
W W W
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Developing a Blueprint
Identify key activities in creating and delivering service
Define “big picture” before “drilling down” to obtain a
higher level of detail
Distinguish between “front stage” and “backstage”
Clarify interactions between customers and staff, and
support by backstage activities and systems
Identify potential fail points; take preventive measures;
prepare contingency
Develop standards for execution of each activity— times for
task completion, maximum wait times, and scripts to guide
interactions between employees and customers
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Key Components of a Service Blueprint
1. Define standards for front-stage activities
2. Specify physical evidence
3. Identify principal customer actions
4. Line of interaction (customers and front-stage personnel)
5. Front-stage actions by customer-contact personnel
6. Line of visibility (between front stage and backstage)
7. Backstage actions by customer contact personnel
8. Support processes involving other service personnel
9. Support processes involving IT
- Identify fail points and risks of excessive waits
- Set service standards and do failure-proofing
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Blueprinting the Restaurant
Experience: A Three Act Performance
Act 1: Prologue and Introductory Scenes
Act 2: Delivery of Core Product
Cocktails, seating, order food and wine, wine service
Potential fail points: Menu information complete? Menu intelligible?
Everything on the menu actually available?
Mistakes in transmitting information a common cause of quality failure—
e.g. bad handwriting; poor verbal communication
Customers may not only evaluate quality of food and drink, but how
promptly it is served, serving staff attitudes, or style of service
Act 3: The Drama Concludes
Remaining actions should move quickly and smoothly, with no surprises at
the end
Customer expectations: Accurate, intelligible and prompt bill, payment
handled politely, guest are thanked for their patronage
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OTSU – Opportunity to Screw Up
Consists of fail points and waiting times
Fail points result in failure to access the core service
product
Waiting times are the possibilities of delays between
specific actions requiring the customer to wait
Identify all OTSU’s to create a delivery system designed to
avoid the problems
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Improving Reliability by Failure
Proofing
Analysis reveals opportunities for failure proofing
Need fail-safe methods for both employees and customers
Errors include treatment errors and tangible errors
Goal of fail-safe procedures is to prevent errors such as:
Performing tasks incorrectly, in the wrong order, too slowly
Doing work that wasn’t requested in the first place
See Service Perspectives 8.1 – Poka Yokes
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Setting Service Standards
Design high standards for each step to satisfy and delight
Time parameters, correct performance, prescriptions for style and
demeanor
First impressions affects customer’s evaluations of quality during later
stages of service delivery
Customer perceptions of service experiences tend to be cumulative
For low-contact service, a single failure committed front stage is
relatively more serious than in high-contact service
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Redesigning Service Processes
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Mitchell T. Rabkin MD,
formerly president of
Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital
Why Redesign? (1)
“Institutions are like steel beams—they tend to rust.
What was once smooth and shiny and nice
tends to become rusty.”
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Why Redesign? (2)
Revitalizes process that has become outdated
Changes in external environment make existing practices obsolete and
require redesign of underlying processes
Rusting occurs internally
Opportunities exist to achieve a quantum leap in productivity and
service quality
Key Measurements
1.Reduce service failures
2.Reduce cycle time
3.Enhance productivity
4.Increase customer satisfaction
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Approaches and Potential Benefits (Table 8.1)
Service process redesign encompasses reconstitution,
rearrangement, or substitution of service processes as
categorized below:
Eliminating non-value-adding steps
Delivering direct service
Shifting to self-service
Delivering direct service
Bundling services
Redesigning the physical aspects of service processes
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The Customer as Co-Producer
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Levels of Customer Participation
Customer participation is the actions and resources supplied
by customers during service production and/or delivery
Three Levels
Low—Employees and systems do all the work
Medium—Customer inputs required to assist provider
High—Customer works actively with provider to co-produce the service
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Self-Service Technologies (SSTs)
Customers undertake specific activities using facilities or
systems provided by service supplier
Customer’s time and effort replace those of employees
Information-based services lend selves particularly well to
SSTs
Used in both supplementary services and delivery of core product
Organizations seek to divert customers from employee contact to
Internet-based self-service
Economic trade-off between declining cost of these self-service
systems and rising cost of labour
Challenge:
Getting customers to use new technology
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Customer Co-production Using SSTs
Productivity gains and cost savings result when customers take over
work previously performed by employees
Lower prices, reflecting lower costs, induce customer to use SSTs
Research shows that customers tend to take credit for successful
outcomes, but not blame for unsuccessful ones
Critical to understand how consumers decide between using an SST
option versus relying on a human provider
SSTs present both advantages and disadvantages
Benefits: Time and cost savings, flexibility, convenience of location, greater
control over service delivery, and a higher perceived level of customization
Disadvantages: Anxiety and stress experienced by customers who are
uncomfortable with using them
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What Aspects of SSTs Please or Annoy
Customers?
People love SSTs when…
SST machines are conveniently located and accessible 24/7
Obtaining detailed information and completing transactions can be
done faster than through face-to-face or telephone contact
People hate SSTs when…
SSTs fail—system is down, PIN numbers not accepted, etc
They forget passwords, fail to provide information as requested,
simply hit wrong buttons
Key weakness of SSTs: Too few incorporate service recovery
systems
Customers still forced to make telephone calls or personal visits
Blame service provider for not providing more user-friendly system
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HSBC: “The world’s local bank”
(Fig 8.2)
Source: Courtesy HSBC
Global site brought to customer’s local computer
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Putting SSTs to Test by
Asking a Few Simple Questions
Does the SST work reliably?
Firms must ensure that SSTs are dependable and
user-friendly
Is the SST better than interpersonal alternatives?
Customers will stick to conventional methods if SST
doesn’t create benefits for them
If it fails, what systems are in place to recover?
Always provide systems, structures, and technologies
that will enable prompt service recovery when things
go wrong
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Customers as Partial Employees
Customers influence productivity and quality of service processes and
outputs
Customers who are offered opportunities to participate at active level
are more likely to be satisfied
However, customers cause one-third of all service problems
Difficult to recover from instances of customer failure
Focus on preventing customer failure by collecting data on problem
occurrence, analyzing root causes, and establishing preventive solutions
Managing customers as employees helps to avoid customer failures
Conduct “job analysis” of customer’s present role in business—compare
against role that firm would like customers to play
Educate customers on how expected to perform and skills needed
Motivate customers by ensuring that rewarded if they perform well
Appraise customers’ performance regularly
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Dysfunctional Customer Behaviour
Disrupts Service Process
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Addressing the Challenge of
Jaycustomers
A customer who behaves in a thoughtless or
abusive fashion, causing problems for the firm, its
employees, and other customers
No organization wants an ongoing relationship
with an abusive customer
Divergent views on jaycustomers
Six types:
The Thief
The Rule-Breaker
The Belligerent
The Family Feuders
The Vandal
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Consequences of Dysfunctional
Customer Behaviour
Consequences for staff working front stage
Abused employees may find their emotions negatively affected and/or
suffer long-term psychological damage
Productivity and quality may suffer
Consequences for customers can be both negative and positive
Exposure to unpleasant incidents can spoil consumption experience; Bad
behaviour can be contagious
But customers may rally to support of abused employee
Consequences for organization
Unmotivated employees may work less effectively
Abused employees may take medical leave
Direct financial costs of restoring damaged property, legal fees, paying
fraudulent claims
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Summary – Chapter 8
Blueprinting is a fundamental tool used for service design and re-
design
Service process redesign should:
Reduce service failures
Reduce cycle time
Enhance productivity
Increase customer satisfaction
Ensure that when a customer as a co-producer that they are well
educated and supported in their “job”
Customers will accept SSTs if they are accessible and easy to use
Companies need approaches for handling Jaycustomer behaviour