Case Study: The SERVQUAL Approach for State Bank of India
Important Attributes of Service Quality
Management of Service Quality-1. Differentiate Waiting Customers:
Management of Service Quality-2. Make Waiting Fun, or At least Tolerable:
Strategies that Enhance Service Quality
Definition of E Service Quality
Various Strategies for E services
Introduction to ESQUAL
Definition of E-SQUAL
Dimensions of Core Service
Dimensions of Service Recovery
Definition of Customer Effort
Measuring Service Quality
Measuring customer Effort
Type of Measuring customer Effort
Definition of Customer Effort Score
What is CES
Types of CES surveys
Process to Reduce Customer Effort
Understanding Service Encounters
Definition of Service Encounters
Co-relation between Customer Satisfaction and Market Share
Co-relation between Customer Satisfaction and Market Share - 2
Business Priorities
Advertising Do’s and Don’t
End to End Customer Experience
Definition of End-to-End Customer Experience
Factors Affecting Service Encounters- Service Organization
Factors Affecting Service Encounters- Contact Personnel
Factors Affecting Service Encounters- Customer
Moments of Magic and Moments of Misery
Self-Reinforcing Relationship with Moments of Truth
Banking Industry Do’s and don’ts
Four-level pyramid of customers
Importance of a First Impression
Importance of Encounter Cascade
Definition of Encounter Cascade
Importance of technology-based encounters
Critical Encounters
Momentous Encounters
Remote Encounters
Technology-mediated Encounters
Face to Face Encounters
Understanding The Sources of Pleasure and Displeasure in Service Encounters
Dos and Don’ts in a Service Delivery System Failure
Adaptability
Dos and Don’ts as a Response to Customer Needs and Requirements
Understanding Spontaneity
Dos and Don’ts in Spontaneity
Coping
Dos and Don’ts in Coping
Technology Based Service Encounters
IRTCT
Types of Customers when it comes to adopting technology services.
Background
Service Touch Points and Guidelines
Building and Maintaining Customer Relationships
Service Recovery
Service Guarantees
Service Delivery
Service Experience and Expectations
Story 1: Frontier Airlines
Story 2: Mc Donald’s
Face Service Recovery
Story 3: Norwegian Sun
Story 4: Amazon
Story 5: Car Service Centre
Story 6: MoviePass
About Sephora
About Nike
Understanding the importance of Research Objectives.
Customer Research in Different businesses
Twitter
Burban
Starbucks
Criteria for an Effective Service Research Program
Qualitative research methods.
Quantitative research methods.
Importance of wants and perceptions of customers.
Balance between cost and benefits.
Understanding when statistical validity is required.
Measuring Customer Priorities.
Frequency of service research
Measure loyalty, behavioral needs and behavior.
Importance of Customer Journeys
Importance of using the complaint solicitation method in market research.
Importance of using requirements research method in building a robust survey.
Value of a good survey in building and maintaining customer satisfaction.
SERVQUAL Surveys – Perceptions
SERVQUAL Surveys
SERVQUAL Surveys – Expectations and Post Transaction Calls.
Service expectations, meetings and reviews.
Process checkpoint evaluations.
Future Expectations Research
Understanding Research
Definitions of Research
Understanding Customer Research
Types of Customer Research Methods
Qualitative Research Continued
Analysis and Interpretation of Research
Customer Experience
Importance/Performance Matrix
Definition of Importance/Performance Matrix
Customer Research
Definition of Customer Research
Importance of Customer Research
DR. OPTIMUM EXECUTION
Upward Communication
Importance of Upward Communication
Research for Upward Communication
Definition of Relationship Marketing
Relationship Marketing Continued
Maintaining Customer Relationships
Customer Retention
Evolution of Relationships
Goals of Relationship Management
Definition of Customer Retention
Benefits of Relationship Management
Definition of Special Treatment Benefits
Special Benefits to Customers
Special Benefits to Companies
Economic Benefit
Relationship Value of Customer
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Case Study: Amazon
Customer Profitability Segments
The Customer Pyramid
Customers View of Profitability Tiers
Making Business Decisions Using Profitability Tiers
Definition of Relationship Marketing
Different Stages of Relationship Development
Relationship Development
Relationship Dissolution
Strategies used to Retain Customers
Relationship Development Strategies Examples
Strategies to build long-term relationships with customers
The Customer is not Always Right
Maintaining Customer Relationships
Ending Business Relationships
Ending a customer relationship: dos and don’ts
Customer relationship challenges in e-commerce
The Impact of Service Failure and Recovery
The Customer Complaint Iceberg
Case Study: Southwest Airlines
Customer’s Response to Service Failure
Understanding Why People DO and DO NOT Complain
Service Recovery: Ritz Carlton Story
Service Recovery Strategy: Fix the Customer
Service Recovery Strategy: Respond Quickly
Providing Appropriate Communication
Treating Customers Fairly
Cultivating Relationships
Encourage and Track Complaints
Learn From Recovery Experiences
Learn Froom Lost Customers
Getting it Right the First Time
Service Guarantee
Definition of Guarantee
Service Guarantee Continued
Characteristics of Effective Guarantees
Types of Service Guarantees
Benefits of Service Guarantees
When or when not to give Service Guarantees
Who Decides to Give Service Guarantee?
When to Give Service Guarantee?
When NOT to give Service Guarantees?
Do Service Guarantees really work?
Switching VS Staying Following Service Recovery
Infrastructure Development
Construction Machines: Market Reality
Organizational Buying process for Construction Machinery
The Product
Wheel Loader Questionnaire
Market Mapping - First Component
Market Mapping - Second Component
Market Mapping - Third Component
Importance of Case Studies
Classification and Strategies of Rural Products
Factors Influencing Rural Marketing
Analyzing Risks in Crossbreeding of local Cows (Open system)
The Real Risk & the Perceived Risk
Why farmers don’t use deworming drugs
Methodology of Calculating Profit and Loss
Enhancing Sale of Winter Tyres
Eligibility Criteria
• Basic knowledge of computers and keen desire to build skills in this field.
• Open to students, job seekers, and working professionals.
Official Certification
• Official MKCL KLiC Certificate upon successful completion of the course and evaluations.
Work-Centric Learning Approach
• Step 1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work
• Step 2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Step 3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Step 4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
• Step 5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
• Step 6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
• Step 7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Step 8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• Step 9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Step 10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
• Step 11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
• Step 12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!
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Course Overview
Duration:120 hours
Track:Service Management
Skill Level:Foundation
Language:English
Mode:Learn at ALC or at Home
Certificate:Official MKCL
Key Course Highlights:
Compare the changes in marketing techniques of the old and new age along with their effects on the customers.
Interpret a vast array of intricate and diverse theories encompassing various principles and methodologies of Marketing Management and their revolutionary effect on the Indian Market.
Paraphrase the intricate importance of segmentation, targeting and positioning of products and services in marketing management.
Examine the effects of consumer behaviour and understanding customers when marketing any product/ services.
Make use of the consumer decision making process when strategizing any marketing plan.
Inspect various types of marketing mixes employed by marketers to promote their products/services to customers.
Paraphrase the importance of marketing communications in its essence and important factors considered while communicating to target audiences about products, services, or brands to influence their perceptions and behaviours.
Differentiate between Advertising, Sales Promotion and Public Relations and use them according to the need of marketing communication.
Interpret the Integrated Marketing Process and its uses and advantages when promoting any product/ services.
Inspect the characteristics and importance of the Great Indian middle class in Future marketing trends.
Inspect the challenges faced by marketers and the different expectations companies have from marketers.
Interpret the use of Market Research and the process followed when running a marketing campaign.
Compare product and services and various strategies used to promote both in the market.
Inspect the intricate interplay between the multifaceted service marketing strategies for achieving sustained business growth and competitive advantage.
Interpret the impact of technology on the service sector, as well as its pros and cons in enhancing service marketing.
Categorize the various gaps that impact the service sector using the GAP Model and outline strategies to mitigate them.
Construct the planning of marketing mix, characteristics, and marketing strategies for services and technology.
Interpret the economic and dynamic changes that affect the profitability of the service sector.
Observe the intertwining of strategies for price discrimination, relative costs, and economies of scale.
Illustrate key elements influence the profit using the service profitability chain.
Diagnose the service gaps in service sectors which affect the profitability of a store.
Discover the various marketing strategies utilized to compete with competitors and the careers available.
Examine the key drivers in service quality that constantly evolve services over time, influencing their progression.
Interpret the notion of service expectations and the way they are perceived in the contemporary world.
Paraphrase the elements that impact the level of service expected and considered acceptable, as well as the range within which variations in service quality are tolerated.
Illustrate the origins and significance of word-of-mouth communication in contemporary society.
Discover the correlation between Customer Delight and Customer Loyalty and their effect in improving service expectations.
Review ways to raise customer service standards and their impacts on service expectations.
Inspect the significance, interpretation, and elements that shape how customers perceive things.
Interpret the decision-making process and marketing forecasting influenced by the behaviour of customers.
Diagnose the customer encounters and the variables impacting the overall customer journey.
Illustrate the different kinds of encounters with customers and the appropriate and inappropriate actions to take in response to their needs and demands.
Illustrate the idea of customer satisfaction and the various metrics employed to assess it.
meaning of service quality and different methods used to measure them.
Inspect the Customer expectations and the elements required for market research to understand customers
Compare the different components of successful service marketing research
Illustrate the significance of the SERVQUAL survey, its approach and its ability to help comprehend how customers perceive a service.
Examine the findings of customer research program and analyse with precision to obtain favourable output.
Paraphrase the importance of assessing customer experience and the techniques for its measurement in shaping performance metrics.
Compare the various strategies involved in relationship development and the value it gives in customer satisfaction.
Interpret the idea of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and its significance in upholding customer relationships.
Summarize the various phases involved in developing customer relationships and outline effective tactics for establishing enduring connections with customers to retain them.
Discover the implementation of diverse service recovery strategies that aims to address service failures and enhance customer experience.
Interpret the idea of service guarantee, along with its associated approaches and advantages