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Customer’s Role in Service

Delivery
Creating Value

 By participating in
the service delivery
process, customers
create value for
themselves
How Customers Widen the Service
Performance Gap

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How Customers Widen the Service
Performance Gap

 Lack of understanding of their roles

 Not being willing or able to perform their roles

 No rewards for “good performance”

 Incompatible market segments - able to exist or occur together without


problems or conflict.

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Characteristics of Service that Increase the Importance of Compatible
Segments

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Importance of Other Customers in Service
Delivery

 Other customers can detract from satisfaction


 disruptive behaviors

 excessive crowding

 incompatible needs

 Other customers can enhance satisfaction


 mere presence

 socialization/friendships

 roles: assistants, teachers, supporters


Customer Roles in Service
Delivery

Productive Resources

Contributors to
Quality and
Satisfaction

Competitors
Customer as Productive Resource

Co-Creating services
Contributors to Quality and Satisfaction

 Customers can contribute to Which customer will be more


satisfied ?
• their own satisfaction with the service
 by performing their role effectively A or B
 by working with the service provider

• the quality of the service they receive


 by asking questions
 by taking responsibility for their own satisfaction
 by complaining when there is a service failure
Customers as competitors

Internal Exchange- Whether to


produce service themselves e.g Child
care, home maintenance, car repair
External Exchange – or have
someone else provide service e.g
financial advisor

Ikea DIY

internal/external decision often based on:


expertise
resources
time
economic rewards
psychic rewards
trust
control
Technology Spotlight:
Services Production Continuum

Customer Production Joint Production Firm Production

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Gas Station Illustration


1. Customer fills petrol and pays at the petrol filling station with automation
2. Customer fills petrol and goes inside to pay attendant
3. Customer fills petrol and attendant takes payment at the pump
4. Attendant fills petrol and customer pays at the pump with automation
5. Attendant fills petrol and customer goes inside to pay attendant
6. Attendant fills petrol and attendant takes payment at the pump

Can you think of SST’s that occupy far left end of customer participation
A Proliferation of Self-Service Technologies

 ATMs  Online banking


 Pay at the pump  Online vehicle registration
 Airline check-in  Online auctions
 Hotel check-in, out  Home and car buying
 Automated car rental online
 Blood pressure machines  Package tracking
 Tax prep software  Internet shopping
 Self-checkout  Distance education

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 Strategies for Enhancing Customer
Participation
-Child care centers
-Ikea requires parents
-Mentoring system participation
in universities -Online resources
-Health Clubs and customer
-Churches handbooks e.g
-Social patient material
organizations -Orientation kits
-Influencers – -Mc Donald's hired
online customers to
demonstrate
appropriate buying
behavior
Ritz Carlton
Kings Island
Class Exercise

Discuss the customer’s role as a productive resource for the firm.


Describe a time when you played this role. What did you do and
how did you feel? Did the firm help you perform your role
effectively? If so, how?

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