1. Relevant literature The literature pertaining to relationships among customer satisfaction‚ customer loyalty‚ and profitability can be divided into two groups. The first‚ service management literature‚ proposes that customer satisfaction influences customer loyalty‚ which in turn affects profitability. Proponents of this theory include researchers such as Anderson and Fornell (1994); Gummesson (1993); Heskett et al.(1990); Heskett et al. (1994); Reicheld and Sasser (1990); Rust‚ et al. (1995);
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Customer Service at Datatronics Datatronics is an organization that serves their customers with Enterprise Resource Planning integrated solutions. Their growth is mainly attributed to acquisitions of smaller competitors. E-Z RP was such a company that despite its inferior size compared to Datatronics was able to succeed and outperform Datatronics on grounds of customer service and customer satisfaction. Datatronics recognized the fact and acquired E-Z RP with the aim to improve in that respective
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Customer Complaints: A Gift in Disguise Werner‚ John. ASQ Six Sigma Forum Magazine12.3 (May 2013): 28-30. Abstract (summary) Improving the complaint management process is important for any organization‚ and the rewards for establishing an effective process are substantial and well worth the effort. When customers experience a problem with a product or service‚ some will complain to the front-line personnel. Most organizations do not have a complaint tab or button on their home page or on their
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The Customer Relationship in Supply Chain Management written by: Ian Johnson•edited by: Jean Scheid•updated: 9/2/2010 Why are some companies better at managing their customer relationships than others? It’s because they have a well-run supply chain that ensures the most common parts are available and they never promise something they can’t deliver? Learn here about customer relationship in supply chain management. The Customer Relationship in Supply Chain Management When it comes to managing
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marketers to ‘delight’ their customers? Introduction The world we live in today has become highly competitive in terms of delivering value to the customers and is primarily due to the increasing competition in every business sector. Just because we as consumers have a wide variety to choose from‚ the companies have to strive more and more to expand and retain their customer base thus delighting their customer is highly imperative for any organization. What is Customer Delight? In our everyday
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Dissertations 2012 Three essays on the customer satisfaction-customer loyalty association Young Han Bae University of Iowa Copyright 2012 Young Han Bae This dissertation is available at Iowa Research Online: http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3255 Follow this and additional works at: http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd Part of theBusiness Administration‚ Management‚ and Operations Commons Recommended Citation Bae‚ Young Han. "Three essays on the customer satisfaction-customer loyalty association." dissertation‚ University
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Customer perception is defined as the way that customers usually view or feel about certain services and products. It can also be related to customer satisfaction which is the expectation of the customer towards the products. In general psychological terms‚ perception is our ability to make some kind of sense of reality from the external sensory stimuli to which we are exposed. Several factors can influence our perception‚ causing it to change in certain ways. Consumer perception theory is any
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Internal customer essay The internal customer is not new‚ nor is it a purely public sector concept. The idea was first used almost forty years ago to describe different forms of administrative relationships within the private sector (Sayles‚ 1964). It stemmed from an understanding that in any organisation all staff are both the providers and receivers of services and‚ critically‚ if poor internal service exists‚ then the final service to the external customer will be diminished. The quality
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Assignment 1.2: Course Project—Target Company Profile and Its Approach to Marketing Assignment 2.2: Course Project—Marketing Environment Analysis Assignment 3.2: Course Project— Market Segmentation Assignment 4.2: Course Project— Customer Behavior Analysis Assignment 5.2: Course Project—Product Strategy Assignment 6.2: Course Project—Pricing Strategy Assignment 7.2: Course Project—Distribution Strategy Conclusion
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An Overview of Customer Satisfaction Models Willard Hom‚ M.B.A. Interim Director of Research Policy‚ Planning & External Affairs Division Chancellor’s Office‚ California Community Colleges Abstract The concept of customer satisfaction has attracted much attention in recent years. Organizations that try to analyze this concept should begin with an understanding of various customer satisfaction models. Such models clarify various theories about customer satisfaction‚ making research and analysis
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