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Competing in a Service Economy

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Competing in a Service Economy is a hands-on guide to creating services, with illustrative examples from service-oriented companies including Disney, Ericsson, IKEA, National Association of Convenience Stores, Ritz Carlton, Scandinavian Airline Systems, Sterling Pulp Chemicals, and Telia Mobile. This practical resource for executives, general managers, and managers in marketing, operations, and human resources reveals how to gain a competitive advantage by creating and implementing a strategic plan that will ultimately improve their organization's services. Written by the authors of the best-selling book Improving Customer Satisfaction, Loyalty, and Profit, this important new book will help business professionals to think and plan strategically to dramatically improve services, service development, and service innovation within their organizations.Die Fähigkeit, hochwertige Dienstleistungen zu entwickeln und anzubieten, ist zu einem wesentlichen Faktor für die Unternehmensstrategie und den Unternehmenserfolg geworden.

"Competing in a Service Economy" hilft Führungskräften und Managern bei der Neuentwicklung und Innovation von Dienstleistungen strategisch zu denken und zu planen.

Wer Dienstleistungen entwickelt, steigert die Kundenzufriedenheit und damit die Finanz-Performance.

Der Band erläutert detailliert die Tools und Prozesse für die Bereitstellung, Verbesserung und Innovation von Dienstleistungen.

Fallstudien zu IKEA, Disney, Volvo Trucks, Sterling Pulp Chemicals und EMC2 belegen anschaulich die verschiedenen Ansätze.

Die Autoren verfügen über langjährige Praxiserfahrung im Bereich wissenschaftlicher und angewandter Forschung in Zusammenarbeit mit einer Vielzahl von Firmen und Organisationen.

"Competing in a Service Economy" ist ein praxisorientierter Leitfaden, der Ihnen genau sagt, wie Sie sich durch die Entwicklung und Innovation von Dienstleistungen einen Wettbewerbsvorteil sichern.

Preface

1. Competing Through Services

2. Creating a Service Advantage

3. Service Maintenance: Removing Things Gone Wrong

4. Improving Service Performance: Adding Things Gone Right

5. Service Innovation

6. Lead the Way

Appendix: The IKEA Saga

Notes

The Authors

Index

Anders Gustafsson teaches service quality management at Karlstad University, Sweden. He is a research leader at the Service Research Center, working on topics such as technology readiness, user-driven service development, and customer orientation.

Michael D. Johnson is the D. Maynard Phelps Professor of Business Administration and professor of marketing at the University of Michigan Business School. He has been instrumental in the development of national satisfaction indices around the world. He teaches services marketing management in the Michigan MBA program.
Johnson and Gustafsson are the authors of UMBS best-selling book Improving Customer Satisfaction, Loyalty, and Profit, from Jossey-Bass.


AUTHORS:

Michael D. Johnson,Anders Gustafsson

PUBLISHER:

Wiley

ISBN-13:

9780470448212

BINDING:

Paperback

BISAC:

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

LANGUAGE:

English

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