QUALITY of service

QUALITY of service

 
Service Within. Albrecht, Karl Dow Jones-Irwin , 1990 Leadership

The topics discussed in Service Management Effectiveness are by leading researchers in the field of service management and they provide a comprehensive model for managing service businesses. The work shatters the...

 
 
At America's Service Albrecht, Karl Dow Jones-Irwin , 1989 Customer Focus, Marketing

Many service firms are paying a high price in lost business due to mediocre service, while few firms are truly oriented toward quality customer service. Businesses often don't understand customers and their priorities...

 
 
How Great Leaders Get Great Results Baldoni, John McGraw-Hill , 2006 Leadership, Management, Personal Growth

In order to create a strong, results-driven organization with increased sales, improved customer service, quality, and productivity, great leaders must be attentive to seven specific management principles: vision,...

 
 
Keeping Customers for Life Cannie, Joan Koob | Caplin, Donald AMACOM , 1991 Customer Focus

In Keeping Customers for Life, Cannie and Caplin present what they consider to be the best work in customer satisfaction being done by companies they call "islands" of service excellence. They...

 
 
Customer Care Excellence Cook, Sarah Kogan Page Ltd. , 2011 Customer Focus

Organizations that develop and sustain a customer focus have an essential competitive advantage in today's service economy. Customer-savvy companies understand that this hinges on fundamentally transforming the way a...

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Satisfaction Denove, Chris | Power IV, James D. Portfolio , 2006 Customer Focus, Marketing

Denove and Power discuss customer satisfaction from A to Z, and they provide good information about what makes a consumer satisfied. They back their conclusions with compelling research taken from decades of customer...

 
 
What's the Secret? DiJulius, John R. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2008 Customer Focus

In What’s the Secret?, businessman and customer service consultant John R. DiJulius III reveals the success of his and other companies using Secret Service, hidden systems that use customer...

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Service Management and Marketing Gronroos, Christian Lexington Books , 1990 Customer Focus, Marketing

The service sector has substantially impacted the U.S. economy, generating 44 million new jobs in the past three decades and softening the effects of every recession since World War II. Added value has moved from the...

 
 
The Customer Is Usually Wrong Jandt, Fred E. Park Avenue Publications , 1995 Customer Focus

The Customer Is Usually Wrong doesn’t blame less than satisfactory service on the customer, but instead thinks an organization must determine what customers believe its service to be; create...

 
 
Service Failure Toister, Jeff American Management Association , 2013 Customer Focus

We have all been treated rudely or thoughtlessly by a cashier, clerk, waiter, or manager at some point. Most people probably do not have to think back too far to find an example. But why does this happen? Why should...

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