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Advanced Service

Operations Management
Ramkrishna Dikkatwar
Classification of Services

Ramkrishna Dikkatwar
Faculty, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Hyderabad
Labor Intensity & degree of customization
and direct interaction

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Each type has its own challenges …..

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Classification Based on Nature
of service act
• Categorization raises questions like
• Does customer needs to be present
during the entire service delivery or
only to initiate / terminate or not at all?
• Customer presence means who should
travel? Customer or service provider
• Significant connotations for service
facility location & design
• Thinking creatively e.g. converting
dramas into CDs

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Based on Relationship with customers

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Customization and employee
judgement in service delivery

• Strategic choice to the service


provider
• Same service can be offered in a
customized as well as in
standardized manner
• The choice has larger
implications for service
personnel selection,
empowerment, etc.

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Customization and employee
judgement in service delivery

• Strategic choice to the service


provider
• Same service can be offered in a
customized as well as in
standardized manner
• The choice has larger
implications for service
personnel selection,
empowerment, etc.

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Nature of demand & Supply

• Nature of fluctuations
• Predictability of fluctuations
• Causes behind demand
fluctuations
• Ways to remove the causes
behind demand fluctuations
• Ways to increase supply
side

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Method of service delivery

• Geographic as well as
interaction component.
• Multi location service
providers need to ensure
consistency and quality.
• Key is to find out ways to
deploy technology to minimize
/ remove the travel element of
service delivery.

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Summarizing the session……
• Based on labor intensity and
interaction
• Based on nature of service act
• Based on relationship with customers
• Based on customization and judgement
needed from the employee
• Nature of demand & supply
• Method of service delivery
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ramkrishna.dikkatwar@sibmhyd.edu.in
Thank you

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