Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Strategies
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Market Defender Strategies
Blocking Strategies
-Performance guarantees
-Intensive advertising
-Satisfied customers
Retaliation Strategies
-Reducing service trail
Adaptation strategies
-Match the new entrant’s offers
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Organizing for Service
Leadership
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Customer-Led versus Market-Oriented
Philosophies of Management
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Integrating Three Functional Imperatives
Customers
Operations
Imperative
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Defining Three Functional Imperatives
Marketing Imperative
Target “right” customers and build relationships
Offer solutions that meet their needs
Define quality package with competitive advantage
Operations Imperative
Create, deliver specified service to target customers
Adhere to consistent quality standards
Achieve high productivity to ensure acceptable costs
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Reducing Intra-Organizational Tension
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The Search for Synergy:
A Top Management Perspective
What do we want?
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From Losers to Leaders:
Moving Up the Service Performance Ladder
Service Leaders
Pioneers of their respective industries like Jan Carlzon of SAS
,Fred Smith of FedEX, Colin Marshal of British Airways,Ray Korc
of McDonald and Herbert Kelleher of South West Airlines.
Names synonymous with outstanding service, customer delight
Service Professionals
Clear positioning strategy
Sustained reputation for meeting customer expectations
Service Non-entities
Traditional operations mindset
Rudimentary marketing, often emphasizing price discounts
Service Losers
Only survive because of lack of viable alternatives in marketplace
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Achieving Service Leadership by Focusing on
Role of Each Functional Area
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Leadership for Change Management Involves
Eight Stages
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Transformational Leadership May Require
Changing Corporate Culture
Corporate Culture:
Shared perceptions regarding what is important
Shared values about what is right and wrong
Shared understanding about what works and what doesn’t
Shared beliefs about why these things are important
Shared styles of working and relating to others
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