LIMITS OF LEAN MANUFACTURING & SERVICE PRACTICES Written by Hafez Shurrab ABSTRACT Lean thinking proved its excellence through its techniques and practices. Many organizations – including first lean introducers and practitioners - couldn‘t get the desired outcomes due to different external and internal concerns. This article addresses some relevant limitations and impediments arise when lean practices and techniques are considered for implementation into manufacturing and service contexts‚ lean
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Review 2.0 4 Overview of the Pet Industry 2.1 5 Service quality theory 3.0 6 How it applies to the Pet Shop Industry 3.1 8 Customer loyalty theory 4.0 9 How it applies to the Pet Shop Industry 4.1 10 Brief overview of Consumer behaviour Linked to the pet industry 5.0 11 Summary 6.0 12 References 7.0 13 Figures Page No. Figure 1 Service Concept 6 Figure 2 Servqual Method
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Manage a Hotel You have been called in to advise the owners of an exclusive new luxury hotel. For the venture to succeed‚ hotel employees must focus on providing customers with the highest quality customer service possible. The challenge is to devise a way of organizing and controlling employees that will promote high-quality service that will encourage employees to be committed to the hotel‚ and that will reduce the level of employee turnover and absenteeism—which are typically high in the hotel
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C A S E S T U D Y A high-tech reception system will make life easier for Quality Care’s staff‚ but what about its customers^ The Quality Improvement Customers Didn’t Want by Dawn Iacobucci Jack Zadow‚ the consultant‚ was persuasive. Wrapping up the hourlong presentation‚ he still seemed as energized as be bad in tbe first five minutes. "Your biggest competitor‚ HealtbCare One‚ has already begun using a computerized reception system in 14 of its 22 facilities‚" he said‚ pointing to the
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Delivering Customer Service Contents • • • • • • • Case Summary Company Background The Starbucks Value Proposition Delivering on Service Caffeinating the World Starbucks’ Market Research: Trouble Brewing? Rediscovering the Starbucks Customer • Suggestion Case Summary • > 5% ann. sales growth during 11years in a row (~2002) • close to a recession-proof product (Howard Schultz) • Lack of strategic marketing group and customer relationship management : Overlooking of market and customer-related
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The Decision-Driven Organization Harvard Business Review – June 2010 The subject discussed in the article “Decision–Driven Organization” is that structural reorganizations should be done based on the decisions that matter the most to the organization instead of the goals that the organization is trying to reach. The coauthors stressed on how important this issue is and that it should be taken into consideration by organizations while preparing for reorganization since. As shown in the examples
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CHAPTER 1 “Introduction” 1.1. Company Profile PT. Nusantara Sejahtera Raya was established in 1987. It is a company engaged in the entertainment industry as managing theaters the early- first just called Cinema 21 is located in Jakarta and the other city in Java. New Cinema XXI and later was established The Premiere of the first opened on January 24‚ 2004 at EX Plaza Indonesia was the beginning of the founding of The Premiere Cinema XXI and in various other shopping centers continues
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and the food is great! The price is very reasonable too. I got an a/c room with cable tv. Arrangements were made for me for Airport transfer and I commend the service‚ I had absolutely no problems. I will definately visit this Resort again. Ps: Cottages are recently refurbished! Very Nice...” This resort consists of extremely customer friendly staff members who will be sure to make any stay a memorable one. Sunflower Beach Resort offers great food as well as accommodation at very affordable
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Service-process Matrix The Service Process Matrix is a classification matrix of service industry firms based on the characteristics of the individual firm’s service processes. The matrix was derived by Roger Schmenner and first appeared in 1986. Although considerably different‚ the Service Process Matrix can be seen somewhat as a service industry version of Wheelwright and Hayes’ Product-Process Matrix. The Service Process Matrix can be useful when investigating the strategic changes in service
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