Service Quality Optimization Essentials
Track Service Management
Duration 30 hours
Skill Level Beginner
Language English

About this Course

Master tools and metrics for measuring, managing, and improving service quality.
Learning Mode: Learn at ALC or at Home

Detailed Course Curriculum

Hands-on module breakdown aligned with MKCL production standards and industry requirements.

  • Assurance
  • Reliability
  • Responsiveness
  • Empathy
  • Tangibles
  • Gaps in Service Quality
  • Case Study - Club Med
  • Types of Gaps in Service Quality - gap 1, 2
  • Types of Gaps in Service Quality - gap 3,4
  • Types of Gaps in Service Quality - gap 5
  • Measuring Service Quality
  • SERVQUAL
  • Dimensions of Servqual
  • Servqual: Functioning & Applications
  • Gap 1
  • Gap 2
  • Gap 3
  • Gap 4
  • Gap 5
  • Advantages & Disadvantages of Servqual
  • Case Study - SERVQUAL - Zomato
  • Walk-through Audit
  • Differences between a Walk-through Audit and a customer satisfaction survey
  • Designing a Walk-Through Audit
  • The Walk-Through Audit as a Diagnostic Instrument
  • Innovation in Measuring Service Quality
  • Case Study - Pizza Hut
  • Incorporating Quality in Your Service Package
  • Case Study- Allina Health
  • The Taguchi Method
  • Pros and Cons of the Taguchi Method
  • Case Study-Xerox
  • Case Study -Toyota
  • The Poka-yoke Technique
  • Basic Principles of Poka Yoke Technique
  • Types of Poka-yoke Techniques
  • Advantages and Disadvantages of the Poka-yoke Technique
  • Quality Function Deployment
  • House of Quality Add customer needs and ratings.
  • Advantages of QFD
  • Cost of Quality
  • Cost of Quality Model
  • Statistical Process Control
  • Types of Control Charts - X Bar Chart
  • Assignment: Take a Challenge 05
  • Types of Control Charts - Range Control Chart
  • Types of Control Charts - Standard Deviation Control Chart
  • Types of Control Charts - Individual- Moving Range Chart
  • Application of Control Charts
  • Service guarantee promotes organizational development.
  • Service recovery
  • Approaches to service recovery
  • Complaint handling policy
  • Defining Kaizen
  • Three Principles of W. Edwards Deming
  • Principle 1 – Improvements are based on small changes, not only on major shifts or new inventions.
  • Principle 2 – Employee ideas are valuable.
  • Principle 3 – Incremental improvements are typically inexpensive to implement.
  • Principle 4 – Employees take ownership and are involved in improvement.
  • Principle 5 – Improvement is reflective.
  • Principle 6 – Improvement is measurable and potentially repeatable.
  • Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle
  • Problem Solving
  • 8 basic tools of data analysis
  • Benchmarking
  • Case Study - Cricket
  • Case Study - HUL
  • Market Researcher Section
  • Objectives of Benchmarking
  • Talking Heads Section – Process of benchmarking 1
  • Talking Heads Section – Process of benchmarking 2
  • Types of Benchmarking
  • Xerox as an example of benchmarking
  • Improvement at the workplace
  • Definition of Improvement in business practices
  • Background to W Deming
  • 14 Points elaborated.
  • What is Six Sigma?
  • How Six Sigma came to be
  • History of Six Sigma
  • Methodology of Six Sigma
  • Framework options
  • Pros and Cons of Six Sigma
  • Case Study: GE
  • Six Sigma Belts
  • Award Show
  • ISO 9000
  • Definition of ISO – Definition
  • ISO 9000 Continue
  • The Story of Waste
  • Definition of Lean
  • Various Types of Quality Management Tools
  • 5S
  • Poka Yoke
  • Visual Management
  • Just in Time (JIT)
  • Heijunka
  • Value Stream Mapping
  • Muda
  • Muda: The different types of waste
  • Philosophy of Lean Service
  • VIDEO case for Value Stream Mapping
  • Strategic location considerations
  • Competitive clustering
  • Saturation marketing
  • Marketing intermediaries
  • Substitution of communication for travel
  • Separation of front from back office
  • Timing
  • Expansion
  • Location Selection Criteria
  • The strategy of place
  • Site considerations
  • Location selection techniques
  • Case study Considerations in the Selection of Sites for Aquaculture
  • Biological & Operational Factors to be considered in Site Location
  • Economic & Social Factors to be considered in Site Location
  • Design considerations in the selection of sites for affordable housing
  • Case Study: Selection of warehouse location for a global supply chain
  • Geographical Information System (GIS)
  • Data Capture
  • Spatial Relationships
  • Case Study: General Motors
  • Case Study: Starbucks
  • Geographic Representation
  • Case Study: FedEx
  • Number of Facilities
  • Case Study: HP
  • Optimisation Criteria
  • Problems expressed as puzzles.
  • One Village - A River - Two Clinics
  • Case Study: Medical Clinic Location
  • Facility Location Business Decisions
  • Plant location
  • Locational economics
  • Features in the decision-making process.
  • Economic aspects of site selection
  • Advantage and disadvantage of urban areas
  • Advantage and disadvantage of Rural areas
  • Huff Model for location
  • Regression Analysis in Business
  • APPLICATION REGRESSION ANALYSIS
  • What is Six Sigma?
  • Six Sigma – Ultimate Objective
  • Six Sigma Features
  • Approach to problem-solving
  • Elements of Six Sigma
  • Philosophy
  • Myths & Misconceptions
  • Benefits of Six Sigma
  • Six Sigma Methodologies
  • Case Study - Mumbai dabbawallas
  • Location factors when opening a dealership.
  • A little about Honda
  • HMSI and Bajaj
  • Honda kick-starts 3-year plan to beat Hero in 2- wheelers.
  • Location Mapping - Problem Identification & Methodology
  • Motorcycle market in India
  • Market Mapping
  • Market Mapping using LOCATE
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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