Topic: Total Quality Service Summary: Total quality service and total quality management as a business strategy designed to add value to customers. It begins by discussing the roots of quality assurance and total quality management‚ and TQM. Also‚ it is to explore the relationship between total quality management (TQM) practices and service quality as well as the relationship between TQM practices and market orientation. However‚ most of what has been written on TQM is usually related to manufacturing
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Chapter 1: Intro Goods Service Implications Tangible Intangible • Inventories • Patents • Displayed or communication • Pricing challenges Standardized Heterogeneous • Dependence on employee and customer actions‚ • Uncontrollable factors • Quality matched to promise/promoted Production separate from consumption Simultaneous production and consumption • Customers participate in and affect the transaction • Customers affect each other • Employees affect the service outcome. • Decentralization
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customers like and dislike and design and deliver its services accordingly. - Technology enabled‚ automated business processes which provide seamless customer information across all departments in all Harrah’s locations. - Ability to (re-) design its servicescape based on the transaction data obtained from its Total Rewards members‚ e.g. install more slot machines if data suggests this will yield to increased revenues. - Consistent brand experience for customers through integration of information system
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communication objectives that need to be selected. An extended communication mix was presented‚ comprising advertising‚ sales force‚ sales promotion‚ public relations‚ direct marketing‚ sponsorship‚ customer relationship management and design/servicescape. The selection of the mix will be dependent on the communication objective and other factors such as size of market‚ churn level‚ etc. Sales promotion is an important communication tool to facilitate purchase behaviour‚ especially if there is
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_______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ Report Information from ProQuest 12 February 2014 11:33 _______________________________________________________________ 12 February 2014 ProQuest Table of contents 1. Discordant retail brand ideology in the House of Barbie.............................................................................. 1 Bibliography................................
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closer location is a human nature because consumers always seeking for convenience. In that case‚ she’d rather buy cold drinks than Dunkin Donut’s hot latte. Besides pursuing for the better taste of Starbuck’s coffee‚ Gloria prefers Starbucks’ servicescape. The retailer atmosphere is beautifully created by relax music and coffee odor. In addition‚ she likes Starbucks’ service more due to its well trained crews. She feels welcomed. Therefore‚ to Gloria‚ Starbucks satisfies her both on its utilitarian
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Product Appearance and Consumer Product Evaluation: A Literature Review This section describes the roles of product appearance in the process of consumer evaluation and choice. For this aim‚ literature in the fields of product development‚ product design‚ consumer behavior‚ marketing‚ and human factors has been searched. The literature shows that the visual appearance of a product can influence consumer product evaluations and choice in several ways. Several authors considered the role of product
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Services Marketing Integrating Customer Focus Across the Firm second European edition wil31711_prelims.indd i 2/27/2012 3:51:42 PM wil31711_prelims.indd ii 2/27/2012 3:51:44 PM Alan Wilson ‚ Valarie A. Zeithaml‚ Mary Jo Bitner and Dwayne D. Gremler Services Marketing Integrating Customer Focus Across the Firm second European edition London San Francisco Lisbon Santiago wil31711_prelims.indd iii Boston St. Louis Madrid Seoul Burr Ridge‚ IL Bangkok Mexico City Singapore Dubuque‚ IA Bogotá
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LensCrafters Case Study XXXXXXXX BUS430 Operations Management OM4 Strayer University Dr. James Collins May 11‚ 2014 Operations Strategy and Sustainability LensCrafters operations strategy is to provide high quality eye care services to customers throughout the US‚ Canada and Puerto Rico. LensCrafters is known for the ability to perform eye exams‚ prescribing sunglasses and eyeglasses‚ and production of the glasses on the premises for each customer. To maintain
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Consumer Decision Making: The Three-Stage Model of Service Consumption Pre-purchase Stage Service Encounter Stage Post- encounter Stage Customers seek solutions to aroused needs Evaluating a service may be difficult Decision to buy or use a service is triggered by need arousal. What promts us to purchase? Needs. Triggers of need: Unconscius minds Physical conditions External sources Need arousal leads to attempts to find a solution. Evoked set – a set of products and brands
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