Business School Case Author(s): Youngme Moon‚ John A. Quelch Description: Starbucks‚ the dominant specialty-coffee brand in North America‚ must respond to recent market research indicating that the company is not meeting customer expectations in terms of service. To increase customer satisfaction‚ the company is debating a plan that would increase the amount of labor in the stores and theoretically increase speed-of-service. However‚ the impact of the plan (which would cost $40 million annually) on
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Executive summary Starbucks‚ the world leader coffee store came to realize that they were not properly using the data‚ which they had been collecting over the past years. After carefully reviewing it they came to the conclusion that even though they were growing at a very good pace and generating a lot of revenues‚ their customer satisfaction was not what they expected. Starbucks had their customers divided into three types: unsatisfied (42%)‚ satisfied (37%) and very satisfied
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ASSESSMENT: BSBMKG413A – Promote Products and Services Assessment Activity 1. Consider this scenario. Eden Beauty the organisation you work for wants you to create an advertisement or plan a promotional activity for a new range of skin care products. They have stipulated the following requirements 1. The ad or promo activity should focus on the organisations reputation for providing luxury products made from all natural ingredients. 2. The advertisement should be pale pink and black 3. You should
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If developed in a sustainable manner‚ indeed it can be a powerful economic growth engine for the country. Travel Agency is one of the popular businesses in the tourism industry. A travel agency is a private retailer or public service that provides tourism related services to the public on behalf of suppliers such as airlines‚ car rentals‚ cruise lines‚ hotels‚ railways‚ and package tours. In addition to dealing with ordinary tourists most travel agencies have a separate department devoted to making
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Products and services: WestJet started its services in 1996 with just 3 aircrafts and landing rights to five destinations in Canada. By the end of 2011‚ WestJet had become one of the leading airlines in Canada‚ by providing services to a total of 76 destinations within continent North America. The airline currently offers scheduled services‚ international charter services and Trans-border services to the United States‚ the Caribbean‚ Mexico and Canada. As per the annual report of 2011‚ WestJet currently
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and research strategies on product-service systems P.P. Wang*‚ X.G. Ming‚ D. Li‚ F.B. Kong‚ L. Wang and Z.Y. Wu School of Mechanical Engineering‚ Shanghai Jiao Tong University‚ Shanghai‚ PR China (Received 17 May 2010; final version received 12 October 2010) As present trends in economic and population growth continue‚ the natural environment is increasingly being stressed. More and more researchers‚ institutes and programmes have paid attention to product-service systems (PSSes) in the last
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management. Specifically‚ product and service design is one of the processes of the design. As states in Morris (2009‚ p.22)‚ Product design is defined as the idea generation‚ concept development‚ testing and manufacturing or implementation of a physical object or service. “Service design is the activity of planning and organizing people‚ infrastructure‚ communication and material components of a service‚ in order to improve its quality‚ the interaction between service provider and customers
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Chapter 4 – Product and Service Design TOPIC Product and Service Design Trends in Product & Service Design Product or Service Design Activities Reasons for Product or Service Design Design for Operations Sources of Ideas for Products and Services The Design Process Quality Function Deployment Reverse Engineering Design for Manufacturing Manufacturability Legal‚ Ethical‚ and Environmental Issues Regulations & Legal Considerations Research and Development (R&D)
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Product and Service Costs Output represents one of the most important cost objects. There are two types of output: products and services. Products are goods produced by converting raw materials through the use of labor and indirect manufacturing resources‚ such as the manufacturing plant‚ land‚ and machinery. Televisions‚ hamburgers‚ automobiles‚ computers‚ clothes‚ and furniture are examples of products. Services are tasks or activities performed for a customer or an activity performed by a customer
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Chapter 10 – Products and Services for Consumers Discussion Questions 1. Define the following terms and show their significance to international marketing: Product diffusion Innovation Product Component Model Green marketing Quality Homologation Global brands 1. Debate the issue of global versus adapted products for the international market. A recurring debate exists relative to product planning and focuses on the question of standardized products marketed worldwide versus differentiated
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