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MKT: 601

MKT: 601. Chapter 14: Designing and Managing Services. Categories of Service Mix. Pure tangible Tangible with service Hybrid Major service with minor goods Pure service Equipment base: Automated car washes Processes: Restaurants Client’s base: Doctors Personal needs: B2B

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MKT: 601

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  1. MKT: 601 Chapter 14: Designing and Managing Services

  2. Categories of Service Mix • Pure tangible • Tangible with service • Hybrid • Major service with minor goods • Pure service • Equipment base: Automated car washes • Processes: Restaurants • Client’s base: Doctors • Personal needs: B2B • Profit/non profit

  3. DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF SERVICES • INTANGIBILITY Positioning strategy tangible through any number of marketing tools • Place • People • Equipment • Communication material • Symbols • Price • INSEPARABILITY • Whereas physical goods are manufactured, put into inventory, distributed through multiple resellers and consumed later, services are typically produced and consumed simultaneously

  4. VARIABILITY • Invest in good hiring and training procedures • Competence/Courtesy/Credibility/Reliability/Responsiveness/Communication • Standardize the Service–performance process throughout the organization • Monitor customer satisfaction

  5. PERISHABILITY

  6. A SHIFTING CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP • CUSTOMER EMPOWERMENT • Customers are becoming more sophisticated about buying product-support services and are pressing for “unbundled services.” They may desire separate prices for each service element and the right to select the elements they want. • CUSTOMER COPRODUCTION • The reality is that customers do not merely purchase and use a service; they play an active role in its delivery. Their words and actions affect the quality of their service experiences and those of others, and the productivity of frontline employees.

  7. Solution for Customer Failures • 1. Redesign processes and redefine customer roles to simplify service encounters. One of the keys to Netflix’s success is that it charges a flat fee and allows customers to return DVDs by mail at their leisure, giving customers greater control and flexibility. • 2. Incorporate the right technology to aid employees and customers. Comcast, the largest cable operator by subscribers in the United States, introduced software to identify network glitches before they affected service and to better inform call-center operators about customer problems. Repeat service calls dropped 30 percent as a result. • 3. Create high-performance customers by enhancing their role clarity, motivation, and ability. USAA reminds enlisted policyholders to suspend their car insurance when they arestationed overseas. • 4. Encourage “customer citizenship” so customers help customers. At golf courses, players can not only follow the rules by playing and behaving appropriately, they can encourage others to do so.

  8. SATISFYING EMPLOYEES AS WELL AS CUSTOMERS Employees thrive in customer-contact positions when they have an internal drive to • Pamper customers • Accurately read customer needs • Develop a personal relationship with customers • Deliver quality service to solve customers’ problems

  9. Achieving Excellence in Services Marketing • MARKETING EXCELLENCE • External (C-CU) • Internal(C-E) • Interactive marketing (E-CU) Best Practices of Top Service Companies • STRATEGIC CONCEPT (Satisfying needs) • TOP MANAGEMENT COMMITMENT • HIGH STANDARDS • PROFIT TIERS • MONITORING SYSTEMS

  10. SATISFYING CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS • DIFFERENTIATING SERVICES Finally, customers who view a service as fairly homogeneous care less about the provider than about the price. Marketing excellence requires service marketers to continually differentiate their brands so they are not seen as a commodity. • PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SERVICE OPTIONS Marketers can differentiate their service offerings in many ways, through people and processes that add value.

  11. INNOVATION WITH SERVICES • Online travel • Retail health clinics • Private aviation Managing Service Quality MANAGING CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS Gaps Between • Consumer expectations and management perceptions • Management Perceptions and service quality specifications • Service quality specifications and delivery • Service delivery and external communication • Perceived service and expected service

  12. Five Determinants of Service Quality • Reliability • Responsiveness • Assurance • Empathy • Tangibles

  13. INCORPORATING SELF-SERVICE TECHNOLOGIES (SSTS) Managing Product Support Services IDENTIFYING AND SATISFYING CUSTOMER NEEDS • Customer has worries of • Failure frequency • Service time • Cost POST SALE SERVICE STRATEGY • CUSTOMER SERVICE EVOLUTION/Dealer provide service • CUSTOMER SERVICE IMPERATIVE/Warranty

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