Distinctive Aspects Of Service Management

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Distinctive Aspects of Service Management By Priyanka Harivallabhdas

Every business is a service business: “ You are not a chemical company. You are a chemical services business” -Philip Kotler

What is a Service? • A service is an act or performance that one part can offer to another that is essentially intangible and does not result in the ownership of anything. • Its production may or may not be tied to a physical product.

Categories of Services • Pure Tangible good: Soap, toothpaste, salt • Tangible good with accompanying services: cars, electronics, computers • Hybrid: Restaurants, Hotels • Major service with accompanying minor goods and services: Airlines • Pure service: teaching, baby-sitting, lawyer

Further Categories • • • • •

Equipment-based/ People-based Client’s Presence Personal need/ Business need Objective Ownership

Scale of Tangibility in Goods & Services

How Service Marketing is different from Physical goods Marketing?

• Intangibility: Doctors • Variability:Different employees of the same bank • Perishability of output: airlines in vacations • Simultaneous production and consumption: singers, dancers,barber

Detailed Differentiation • No Customer ownership of services • Service products as Intangible performances • Customer Involvement in the Production process

• People as a part of the Product • Greater variability in operational inputs & outputs • Difficulty of customer evaluation

• No inventories after production • Importance of time factor • Different distribution channels

Marketing Mix

product

Promoti on & Educatio n

People

SERVICE S place

Physical evidenc e

Process

Price

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