2. Industries under Service Sector
Primary
Agriculture
Forestry
Fishing
Mining
Secondary
Manufacturing
Electricity
Construction
Services Sector
Hotels & Restaurants
Railways
Banking & Insurance
Communication
3. Characteristics Of Service
Intangibility – performance rather than objects
†Inseparability –sold first and then produced and
consumed simultaneously
†Heterogeneity –service performance to vary from one
service transaction to the next
†Perishability – cannot be saved; unused capacity in
services cannot be reserved, and services themselves
cannot be inventoried
4. THE FLOWER OF SERVICE
CORE
CONSUL
TATION
INFORM
ATION
HOSPITA
LITY
SAFEKEE
PING
EXCEPT
IONS
BILLING
PAYMENT
ORDER
TAKING
5. Why service organization need to communicate?
Internal
•To inform employees about changes in the organization
• to communicate plans and programmes
•To publicize incentive scheme
•To inform & educate new services
External
•To inform current & new services offerings and benefits
•To educate customers
•To persuade to buy
•To remind customers
•To Publicise policy decisions
6. Challenges and Opportunities in
Communicating Services
Generality: items that comprises class of objects, persons or
event
Nonsearchability: intangibles cannot be searched or
inspected before they are purchased
Abstractness: concepts do not have one-to-one
correspondence with physical objects
Impalpability: services are sufficiently complex that it is
difficult for consumers to understand what the experience of
using them will be like and what benefits will result
7. Service Product / Offering
Core product bundled together with a variety of
supplementary service elements
Expected product Customer’s minimal set of
expectations
Augmented Product Seller’s offering over and above
what customer expects
Potential Product Everything that potentially can be
done with the product that is of utility to the
customer
9. New Service Development Process
Generation of Ideas
Screening
Testing the concept
Business analysis & evaluation
Practical Development
Market Testing
Launch
10. Achieving Success in NSD
Market synergy
Product’s fit with existing image
Superior advantage than competing product
Strong ASS from firm
Understanding about purchase decision behavior
Organizational factors
Strong inter-functional cooperation and coordination
Market research factors
Conduct market research study prior to the development of new
service
A good definition of the product concept –before undertaking field
survey
11. SERVICE LIFE CYCLE CONCEPT
EMERGING
GROWTH
MATURITY
DECLINING
END OF LIFE
12. What Blue Star does?
Blue Star provides Standard Maintenance solutions
and also offer premium value added services:
Annual Maintenance Contract
Revamp & Retrofit
Spares
Repair & Services
13. Air conditioning & Refrigeration Service Division
Blue
Star
Service
Central
manageme
nt &
operationa
l directives
Service
call
handling
teams
Regional &
Branch
level
operationa
l terms
Regional
Service
specialist
group
Service
specialist
group
Spare parts
planning ,
procuremen
t, storage &
distribution