This document discusses key concepts in service management. It begins by explaining how societies have transitioned from goods-producing to service-focused economies over time. It then covers the dominant logic of services, including their intangible nature and customer involvement in production. Additional sections address service quality expectations and experiences, factors that influence quality, and challenges in measuring it. The document also discusses service failures, recovery, guarantees, productivity issues like waste and queues, self-service automation, and the importance of service culture.
6. SERVICES AS PROCESSES
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Goods – are a resource –
something you get
Services – are a process –
activities that happen over time
Services Dominant Logic
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7. CUSTOMER AS CO-PRODUCER
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Goods – you are not involved in
the production process
Services – you may be involved
in the production process
Services Dominant Logic
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8. SIMULTANEITY
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Goods – can be produced, then
consumed later
Services – are often produced
and consumed at the same time
Services Dominant Logic
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9. PERISHABILITY
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Services – Cannot be stored –
lost opportunities are lost forever
Goods – can be stored – for
sale later
Services Dominant Logic
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10. INTANGIBILITY
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Goods – Are often tangible so
can be tried before buying
Services – Intangible services
cannot be tried out before buying
Services Dominant Logic
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11. HETEROGENEITY
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Goods – are focused on things
and are alike
Services – are focused on
people and vary from customer
to customer
Services Dominant Logic
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12. VALUE IN EXCHANGEV.S.VALUE IN USE
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Goods – Customers exchange for
goods and use them how they want
Services – Customer get value
from services by using them
Services Dominant Logic
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18. SOURCES OF EXPECTATIONS
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Service Quality: Expectations
Sales/ Marketing
Information
Corporate Brand
& Image
What Other
Customers Say
Past Experience
with Service
Relationship with
Service Provider
Experiences with
Other Services
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Customer
Expectations
19. TYPES OF EXPECTATIONS
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Service Quality: Expectations
Explicit Unrealistic: “make me
look like Brad Pitt”
Fuzzy: “make me look like a
rockstar”
Explicit Realistic: “Short back
and sides”
Implicit: “why didn’t you ask me
first?”
M
ake
explicit
Make
realistic
Make explicit
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22. THE CUSTOMER/PROVIDER RELATIONSHIP: 2
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Relationship
SequenceSequence
Episode
Act
Act
Act
Episode
Act
Act
Act
EpisodeAct
Act
Act
Episode
Act
Act
Act
Relationship
with a hotel
A stay at a
hotel
Dinner at the
hotel
Ordering
dessert
Act: Also known as ‘Moments of Truth’
Service Quality: Experience
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25. WHAT WE RESPONSIBLE FOR?
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Quality Factors & Measures
The equipment
Actions (& inactions)
of staff
The systems
The processes
Actions of the
customer
Actions of other
customers
The expectations
The facilities and
environment
This
But not this
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28. MEASURING QUALITY
NPS
Ask customers how likely they would
be to recommend a service to a friend
or colleague
Simple
Easy to get a good response rate
Collects limited data
Fast to implement
Risks becoming a score
Implied comparison between
expectation and experience
Servqual
Ask customers what they expected
versus what they got for each aspect of
a service
Complex
Requires customer effort
Comes with good data
Slow to implement
Maintains focus on service aspects
Explicitly compares expectation
against experience 28
Quality Factors & Measures
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34. ARE COMPLAINTS GOOD?
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Service Recovery
Prevents bad word of
mouth
Lets provider
respond to issues
The alternative is
customers leaving
Make issues visible
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YES NO
35. WHAT ARE CUSTOMERS LOOKING FOR?
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Service Recovery
Procedural
Interactional
Distributive
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The Three Justices
39. PRODUCTIVITY
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Services Productivity
Internal: Cost to provide a service
instance to a customer. How much does it
cost to provide the service.
External: Cost to provide a level of service
experience a customer. How much does it
cost to make the customer like the service?
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42. WASTE IN SERVICES
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Services – Customers are
‘stored’ when there is too little
capacity
Goods – Inventory is a buffer
between production and demand
Waste
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43. MANAGING QUEUES
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Services – Manage Demand
(yield management)
Goods – Manage Waiting (make
it more bearable)
Waste
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44. SELF SERVICE AND AUTOMATION
PART 12
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Self Service & Automation
45. SERVICE PROCESS MATRIX
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Degree of Specialisation/Customisation
Low High
DegreeofCustomerContact
Low
Car wash Pest control
High
School Physician
Easy to
automate
Hard to
automate
Self Service & Automation
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