Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Consumer Behavior in
Service Encounters
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Where Does the Customer Fit in a
Service Organization? (Fig. 2.1)
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High-Contact and Low-Contact Services
Emphasizes encounters
High with service personnel
N ur sing Hom e
HairCut
4 - Star Hote l
Ma na g e me nt Con sulting
Go od Re sta ura nt
Tele ph one Ba nking
Airlin e Tra ve l (Econ.)
Re ta il Ba nking Car Re pa ir
Motel In sura nce
Dry Clea ning
Fa st Food
Movie Theater
Ca bl e TV
Subway
• Internet Banking
Mail Based Repairs
Emphasizes encounters
with equipment
Internet-based
Services
Low
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Managing Service Encounters--1
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Managing Service Encounters--2
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The Purchase Process for Services
(Adapted from Fig. 2-3)
Prepurchase Stage
Awareness of need
Information search
Evaluation of alternative service suppliers
Service Encounter Stage
Request service from chosen supplier
Service delivery
Postpurchase Stage
Evaluation of service performance
Future intentions
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Perceived Risks in
Purchasing and Using Services (Table 2.1)
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Factors that Influence
Customer Expectations of Services (Fig. 2.4)
Situational Factors
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Components of Customer Expectations
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Intangible Attributes, Variability, and Quality
Control Problems Make Services Hard to Evaluate
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How Product Attributes Affect
Ease of Evaluation) (Fig. 2.5)
Easy Difficult
to evaluate to evaluate
Restaurant meals
Clothing
Computer repair
Legal services
Complex surgery
Motor vehicle
Haircut
Foods
Chair
Education
Lawn fertilizer
Entertainment
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Customer Satisfaction is Central to the
Marketing Concept
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A Service Business is a System Comprising
Three Overlapping Subsystems
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Service Marketing System:
(1) High Contact Service--e.g., Hotel (Fig. 2.7)
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Service Marketing System:
(2) Low Contact Service--e.g., Credit Card (Fig. 2.8)
Advertising
Mail
Market Research
The Surveys
Technical Self Service
Core Equipment Customer Random Exposures
Facilities, Personnel
Phone, Fax,
Web site etc. Word of Mouth
Front Stage
Backstage (visible)
(invisible)
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Service as Theater
William Shakespeare
As You Like It
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The Dramaturgy of Service Delivery
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Role and Script Theories
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Chapter 4
Creating the
Service Product
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Key Steps in Service Planning:
Matching Opportunities to Resources
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Service Design Involves Matching Marketing
Concept with Operations Concept (Fig. 4.1)
Corporate Objectives
and Resources
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Understanding the
Components of the
Augmented Service Product
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Shostack’s Molecular Model of a Total Market
Entity - Passenger Airline Service (Fig. 4-2)
Distribution
Price
Vehicle
Service
frequency
Transport In-flight
service
Pre- and
post-flight Food
service and
drink
KEY
Tangible elements
Intangible elements
Marketing Positioning
(Weighted toward evidence) Source: Shostack
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Core Products and Supplementary Services
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Core and Supplementary Product Design:
What Do We Offer and How Do We Create and Deliver
It?
Core
Service Customer
Level Role
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What Should Be the Core and Supplementary
Elements of Our Service Product?
How is our core product defined and what supplementary
elements currently augment this core?
R e s e r v a t io n
C a s h ie r V a le t
P a r k in g
B u s in e s s
C e n te r R e c e p t io n
A B e d fo r th e
Ro o m N ig h t in a n Ba gga g e
S e r v ic e E le g a n t P r iv a t e S e r v ic e
R o o m w it h a
B a th ro o m
W a ke -u p C o c k t a il
C a ll Ba r
Te le p h o n e R e s ta u ra n t
E n te r ta in m e n t /
S p o r t s / E x e r c is e
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What Happens, When, and in What Sequence?
The Time Dimension in the Augmented Service Product
Reservation
Parking Get car
Porter
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The Flower of Service:
Categorizing Supplementary Services (Fig. 4-5)
Information
Payment Consultation
Exceptions Hospitality
KEY:
Facilitating elements Safekeeping
Enhancing elements
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Facilitating Services - Information
(Table 4.1)
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Facilitating Services - Order-Taking
(Table 4.2)
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Facilitating Services - Billing
(Table 4.3)
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Facilitating Services - Payment
(Table 4.4)
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Enhancing Services - Consultation
(Table 4.5)
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Enhancing Services - Hospitality
(Table 4.6)
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Enhancing Services - Safekeeping
(Table 4.7)
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Enhancing Services - Exceptions
(Table 4.8)
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Branding
Service Products
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Service Branding:
Clarifying Distinctive Service Offerings
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Branding a High-Tech, B2B Product Line:
A Family of Brands at Sun Microsystems
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Sun Spectrum Support:
Sub-branding Highlights Four Service Levels
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New Service Development:
A Hierarchy of New Service Categories
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New Service Development:
Physical Goods as Source of Service Ideas
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Creating Services as Substitutes for
Owning and/or Using Goods (Fig. 4-7)
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Service Development through Delivery Options:
Alternative Meal Service Formats (Fig. 4-8)
Fast-Food
Restaurant See sign Park and Order meal, Pick up Find table Clear table
(Eat In) enter and pay meal and eat and leave
Drive-In See sign Stop car at Order via Get meal at Drive away,
Restaurant order point microphone pickup, pay eat later
(Take Out)
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Elements of a Hotel Offering:
Trading off Room Price vs. Features/Services
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Success Factors in New Service Development
Market synergy
Good fit between new product and firm’s image/resources
Advantage vs. competition in meeting customers’ needs
Strong support from firm during/after launch
Firm understands customer purchase decision behavior
Organizational factors
Strong interfunctional cooperation and coordination
Internal marketing to educate staff on new product and its
competition
Employees understand importance of new services to firm
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