by
Gilmore, Audrey.
Call Number
658.8 22
Publication Date
2003
Summary
Services Marketing and Management covers the core topics of services management in a concise and informative manner. The text: - provides an overview of the characteristics and underlying principles of delivering services in today's marketplace - places these underlying issues in the context of organisational frameworks and activities - discusses different services contexts including financial services, tourism, charities and museums.
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Electronic Resources
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77635.7031
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by
Edvardsson, Bo, 1952-
Call Number
658.575 22
Publication Date
2006
Summary
This book deals with how companies can involve customers or users in order to learn with them in the field of service-based business development. It presents a variety of customer-involvement approaches, methods for learning with customers, and the results of case studies conducted in both service and manufacturing companies focusing on value-creation through services. Based on research carried out by several research groups around the world, as well as on illustrative cases, the book creates new actionable knowledge regarding customer-involvement which will be useful for both practitioners and scholars. The benefits for readers include: an understanding of the business potential of learning with customers and other users; an overview of the fields of new service development and customer-involvement with regard to concepts, theoretical frameworks, and models, in addition to strategies and techniques for involving users in fruitful ways during the innovation process; an illustration of the cases based on the results of empirical studies; and managerial implications and guidelines regarding how to manage customer-involvement during the different phases of the new service and business development process.
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1.9565
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