Measuring Service Quality
Enterprise Rent-A-car
Presented ByAnusha Archana Lohitha Sravan
Sravya Srinivas Vamsi
INTRODUCTION Largest rent-a-car company in U.S. Founder: Jack Taylor Enterprise’s St.Louis headquarters Focus on:customer satisfaction Service: home-city replacement market Measures :ESQi (Enterprise Service Quality index) • Referral agents:Insurance agents& body-shop managers ,independent company • • • • • •
ENTERPRISE’S SERVICE QUALITY SURVEY INFORMATION: • Customer satisfaction levels RESEARCH OBJECTIVES: 1.Exploratory research: • Problems-lack of better survey response rate & quick response • Solutions- using personal/online/telephone contact methods & taking large representative samples. 2.Descriptive research: market potential on product & consumers interests are considered . 3.Causal research:cause-and-effect relationships are
PRIMARY DATA COLLECTION Research approaches Contact methods Sampling plan Research instruments Survey Mail Convenience sample Questionnaire
CUSTOMER SATISFACTION INFORMATION MAIL SURVEY: • leads to slow data collection & poor flexibility OTHERS MEANS: • Telephone/personal/online survey gives excellent speed of data collection & good response rate. • The above are the recommendations to improve response rate & timeliness of feedback from
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT Want
to improve on customer satisfaction Providing onsite and off site services at some airports Problems in the Improvement Wanted a better survey response rate It could take up two months to get results
back
ESQi Enterprise
wants to find and rate the satisfaction of the customers
Want
to rate the overall average performance and for each branch using ESQi
Also
rated managers for promotion on the basis of ESQi of that branch
Questions????
Question 1 Analyze
Enterprise’s service Quality survey. What information is it trying to gather? What are its research objectives?
Question 2 What
decisions has enterprise made with regard to primary data collection —research approach, contact method, sampling plan, and research instruments?
Question 3 In
addition to or instead of mail survey, what other means could Enterprise use to gather customer satisfaction information?
Question 4 What
specific recommendations would you make to Enterprise to improve the response rate and the timeliness of feedback from the process?
Thank You!!