Professional Documents
Culture Documents
NCM, BBA,
KU,
March
2020
Costumer Interaction with
Service Operations
They are service directed at peoples bodies –
health care, education lodging, therapy
To receive the services the customers must
be physically enter the service system as they
are an integral part of the process
Being transported, fed, lodged, restored to
health, made more beautiful,
academically qualified, entertained
The customer must be prepared to cooperate
with the service provider for service quality
They are services directed at physical
possessions – servicing, washing and cleaning,
repair and maintenance, storage, delivery
Customer ask a service organization to provide
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Moment of Truth [MOT]
High-Contact
◦ Entails interactions throughout service delivery between
Services
customers and the organization
◦ Interaction throughout service delivery between
customers and service provider - face-to-face encounter
(customer also plays the role), creating service quality
perceptions
◦ Customer enter the service factory
◦ The customer’s exposure to the service provider
takes place on a physical and tangible in nature with
service processing
◦ Hotel, Restaurant, Airlines, Hospital, College
Low-Contact Services
◦ Customer contact takes place through the medium of
electronic or physical distribution channels
◦ Remote encounters (ATM, website, mail-order)
◦ Phone encounters (voice tone, knowledge)
Technology Based Service Encounters
Self Service Technologies (SSTs)