09. SERVICE PROCESSES

Characteristics

Designing Service Organizations

Service Bluepriting and Fail-Safing

Contracting Service Designs

The production line approach (McDonald's)

Well-Designed
Service System

Service types

Business services
Social services
Personal services

People processing
Possession processing
Mentel stimulus processing
Information processing

Service Triangle

Service Package

Supporting facility

Facilitating goods

Information

Explicit services

Implicit services

Customer

Service blueprint

High and low degrees of customer contact

Consitent elements
User-friendly
Robust
Consistent
Integrated front- and back-office operations Generate value for the customer
Cost-effective.

Types of
Variability

Arrival variability
Request variability
Capability variability
Effort variability
Subjective preference variability

Virtual
Service

Pure virtual
customer contact

  • eBay
  • SecondLife

The self-service approach
(ATMs)

The personal attention approach
(Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company)

Poka-yokes

Line of interaction
Line of visibility
Line of internal interaction

Physical evidence
Customer action
Onstage/Backstage action
Support processes

Capacity problem

Strategic Uses of the Matrix

Accommodation
Strategies

Mixed virtual and
actual customer contact

  • Youtube
  • Wikipedia

Classic accommodation
Low-cost accommodation
Classic reduction
Uncompromised reduction

Employees

Service strategy

Support systems