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Productivity
Helps to keep costs down
lower prices to develop market, compete better
increase margins to permit larger marketing budgets
raise profits to invest in service innovation
Tangibles
Reliability
Responsiveness
Assurance
competence,
courtesy
credibility
security
Empathy
access
communication
understanding of customer
Seven Service Quality Gaps (Fig. 14.1)
1. Knowledge Gap
Management definition
of these needs
MANAGEMENT
2. Standards Gap
Translation into
design/delivery specs
3. Delivery Gap
Execution of 4. I.C.Gap Advertising and
design/delivery specs sales promises
7. Service Gap
Customer experience
relative to expectations
Prescriptions for Closing Service Quality Gaps
(Table 14.3)
Pareto analysis
Composition e of FedEx’s
Service Quality Index (SQI) (Table 14.4)
Weighting No of Daily
Failure Type Factor
X =
Incidents Points
Late Delivery – Right Day 1
Late Delivery – Wrong Day 5
Tracing request unanswered 1
Complaints reopened 5
Missing proofs of delivery 1
Invoice adjustments 1
Missed pickups 10
Lost packages 10
Damaged packages 10
Aircraft Delays (minutes) 5
Overcharged (packages missing label) 5
Abandoned calls 1
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
J F M A M J J A S O N D
Month
Tools to Address Service Quality Problems
Facilities, Frontstage
Front-Stage
Procedure
Procedures
Equipment Personnel
Personnel
Materials,
Materials, Backstage Information
Supplies
Supplies Personnel
Analysis of Causes of
Flight Departure Delays (Fig. 14.4)
4.9
All stations, excluding
15.3% 23.1% %
Chicago-Midway Hub
19%
33.3%
15.4% 11.7%
9.5%
23.1% 8.7%
23.1% 33.3%
11.3% 53.3%
Satisfy Target
100% Customers Through
Service Recovery
Service Reliability
Optimal Point of
Reliability: Cost of
Failure = Service
Recovery
Satisfy Target
Customers Through
Service Delivery as
A B C D Planned
Investment
Small Cost, Large Cost, Assumption: Customers are equally (or even
Large Improvement Small Improvement more) satisfied with the service recovery provided
than with a service that is delivered as planned.
Productivity in a Service Context