Operations Management History The Role of Services in an economy Operations Management: Set of activities that create value in the form of goods and services‚ Timeline of OM: Crafts Manufacturing Industrial Revolution (1770 England): • Invention of steam engines‚ replaced human power • Started with textile industry • Increased use of refined coal Division of Labor (1776‚ Adam Smith) Standardized parts (1800‚ Eli Whitney)‚ interchangable parts Steam Ships (1807) Telegrapgh (1844
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Four Characteristics of Services Russell Wolak‚ Stavros Kalafatis and Patricia Harris* Kingston Business School Kingston Hill Kingston upon Thames Surrey KT2 7LB Phone 0181 547 2000 Fax 0181 547 7026 E-mail p.harris@kingston.ac.uk ABSTRACT This study replicates US-based research by Hartman and Lindgren on the extent to which consumers differentiate between products and services. In addition‚ Hartman and Lindgren investigated the importance of four characteristics of services to consumers; intangibility
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International Journal of Service Industry Management Emerald Article: A comparison of service delivery processes of different complexity Peter J. Danaher‚ Jan Mattsson Article information: To cite this document: Peter J. Danaher‚ Jan Mattsson‚ (1998)‚"A comparison of service delivery processes of different complexity"‚ International Journal of Service Industry Management‚ Vol. 9 Iss: 1 pp. 48 - 63 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09564239810199941 Downloaded on: 02-02-2013
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SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROJECT INNOVATION INCUBATION PROJECT- LAUNCH OF HOLISTIC WELLNESS PROGRAMMES FOR CORPORATE AND FACTORIES IN NAVI MUMBAI AND THANE REGION HEMANGI CHOULKAR ROLL NO- 14 POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN MANAGEMENT- PHARMACEUTICAL MANAGEMENT 2012-2014
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THIRTEEN CUSTOMER SERVICE FACTS BY: Michael A. Aun‚ CSP‚ CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame Reference - http://www.nsacentralflorida.com/Articles/Thirteencsfacts.pdf Thirteen Customer Service Facts. Fact Number One Dissatisfied customers tell an average of ten other people about their bad experience. Twelve percent tell up to twenty people. In very simple terms‚ bad news spreads rather quickly. Don’t think for a moment that your poor performance in servicing your client goes unnoticed. Not only
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CREATING A DRAMA AT TGI’S FRIDAY Q1. What are the connections between theatre and TGI Friday’s? Is the dramaturgical analogy a good one? The service encounter at TGI Fridays can be seen as a theatrical drama. Décor has become a key element in the TGI Fridays experience transforming an otherwise bland and boring industrial type building into a theatrical stage‚ which shows that the servicescape is standard all around the world. The restaurants of TGI are remarkably similar throughout the world
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AUGUST 2007‚FIRST DRAFT Services provisions in regional trade agreements: stumbling or building blocks for multilateral liberalization? Carsten Fink World Bank Marion Jansen* WTO Paper presented at the Conference on Multilateralising Regionalism Sponsored and organized by WTO - HEI Co-organized by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) 10-12 September 2007 Geneva‚ Switzerland The views expressed in this paper are the authors’ own and cannot be attributed to the World Bank‚ the WTO
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Sikhism is one of the most ancient religions of India and the believers of this religion are called Sikhs that means disciples. The founder of Sikhism was Guru Nanak. Sikhism stands for casteless society and preaches thahe Holy Book Of Sikhism is Guru Granth Sahib Guru Gobind Singh declared before his departure to the heavenly abode that this Holy Granth would be the spiritual guide for Sikhs. Guru Gobind Singh made Khalsa (Sikh common wealth)‚ a full-fledged nation and taught them to perform
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Services marketing-103038 Part A 1. Services marketing is marketing based on relationship and value. It may be used to market a service or a product. Marketing a service-base business is different from marketing a goods-base business. There are several major differences‚ including: 1. The buyer purchases are intangible 2. The service may be based on the reputation of a single person 3. It’s more difficult to compare the quality of similar services 4. The buyer cannot return the
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framework…………………………………………………………..5 CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 2.0 Introduction………………………………………………………………………6 2.1 Definition of concepts…………………………………………………………….6 2.2 Relationship between service delivery and performance…………………….......6 2.3 Effect of service delivery on performance……………………………………....7 2.4 Forms of services offered by banking institutions……………………………...7 2.5 Research limitations……………………………………………………...……..12 CHAPTER THREE METHODOLOGY 3.0 Introduction……………………………………………………………………..
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