PUTTING THE SERVICE-PROFIT CHAIN TO WORK “When companies put employees and customers first‚ their employees are satisfied‚ their customers are loyal‚ their profits increase‚ and their continued success is sustained.” Harvard Business Review‚ March-April 1994. There is growing number of companies that includes Banc One‚ Intuit Corporation‚ Southwest Airlines‚ ServiceMaster‚ USAA‚ Taco Bell‚ and MCI know that when they make employees and customers paramount‚ a radical shift occurs in the way they
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be discussing about Nike`s Company‚ focusing on its shoes. The report begins with the overview of the company‚ including history‚ a brief discussing of customer and competitor. The next part of the report will exploring how Nike creates and delivers value its targeting customer and capturing value from customer through the value delivery process and marketing mix which are product‚ price‚ place and promotion. This is achieved by understanding market place and customer needs and wants‚ designing
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Assignment 6.2 Employees as Internal Customers In recent years‚ m any employers and employees have been faced with a horrid economic downturn. Many employees have been laid-off‚ demoted and a slew of other horrible issues. Many employers let go of average employees and retained the high-performers. What seems to be the norm nowadays is to pinch every penny and never give more than what is necessary. This leads to employers devaluing their employees and making high performers feel inadequate and
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Final Project Customer Strategy of Bain & Company Submitted to: Ms. Tahira Hafeez Submitted by: Umar Afzal 2102071 Dated: August 18th‚2011 Customer Strategy & Marketing Customers are the source of real growth. Bain combines in-depth customer insights with practical expertise in operations and economics to create sustainable‚ organic growth. • What we do Applying an outside-in perspective and achieving growth are fundamental to our approach at Bain. Our customer-centric business
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Summary: Companies And The Customers Who Hate Them How can customer dissatisfaction lead to higher profits for the company? Companies have found out that ill-informed customers can be beneficial for them in terms of profits. Some companies have abused their customers intentionally‚ however others unwittingly exploited and took advantage of them. The Slippery slope: There are two major ways in which companies make profits by misleading their customers: * Offering the customers a broad
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for having poor customer service. Some of the bad customer service areas at Walmart are in the electronic department where there is only one cashier‚ their customer service department only has one cashier‚ the self-checkout lines does not always accept cash‚ debit‚ and credit‚ and they never have enough cashiers staffed leading to extremely long lines. Walmart will benefit from benchmarking because they can earn the customers trust and help build morale‚ bringing their customers back to shop with
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due to various factors e.g. general health in the area‚ local disasters‚ poverty rates etc. For the purpose of this report the focus will not be on the funeral business as a whole but on one area of sales – monumental masonry. The nature of customer demand – volume‚ variety and uncertainty Month on month the monumental masonry side of the business will complete‚ on average‚ 40 monumental orders – 75% of this work will be new work that has come from funerals that the business has recently
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this week. 2 profitable days & selling 100 Santa is coming to Cambridge on 1 day over 4 customers.!! LAST WEEK Friday - postcodes/area DAY OFF HOLIDAY 1. 2. 3. THIS WEEK Monday - postcodes/area: NORFOLK& Suffolk & Cambridge 1. Merchandising & christmas orders for existing customers 3. Tuesday - postcodes/area: HP & WD 1.Merchandising & christmas orders for existing customers 2. 3. Wednesday - postcodes/area: SICK 1. 2. 3. Thursday postcodes/area: at
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the four dimensions of customer service in a company. Give examples to illustrate your points. It is known to us‚ “in each industry‚ the customer is god‚ is operator’s food and clothing parents.” This tells us that customers are important to organizations. With the current intense competition in logistics nowadays‚ most companies can provide high quality goods‚ even are willing to cut down prices if reasonable. However‚ how can suppliers gain a competitive advantage when high quality is expected
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products/services can be designed and marketed‚ presented to the customers to meet those needs. The market now determines what the manufacturer produces or the retailer sells and information collected from customers provides the basis for the focus for all organisational activities. Do not make assumptions about customers and their needs‚ ensure that you identify just who your customers are and what their needs are. Communicate with them often and regularly. Go directly to your customers for the information
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