Service Marketing (Ric Nicholas)
Across
- 4. how efficiently service inputs are transformed into outputs that add value for customers.
- 5. customers and employees who are involved in service production
- 7. all components of the service performance that create value for customers (Note: two words, space between each)
- 12. services that involve significant interaction among customers, service personnel, and equipment and facilities (Note: two words, space between each)
- 13. a particular method of operations or series of actions, typically involving steps that need to occur in a defined sequence
- 15. tailoring service characteristics to meet each customer's specific needs and preferences
- 17. earned sequences of behaviors obtained through personal experience or communications with others
- 19. a lack of consistency in inputs and outputs during the service production process
Down
- 1. services that require minimal or no direct contact between customers and the service organization (Note: two words, space between each)
- 2. reducing variation in service operations and delivery
- 3. capable of being touched, held, or preserved in physical form over time intangibility a distinctive characteristic of services that makes it impossible to touch or hold on to them in the same manner as physical goods
- 6. a visual representation of the steps involved in delivering service to customers
- 7. process where customers evaluate service quality and their satisfaction/dissatisfaction with the service outcome (Note: two words, space between each)
- 8. services that involve only a limited amount of contact between customers and elements of the service organization (Note: two words, space between each)
- 9. a combination of social cues that guides behavior in a specific setting or context.
- 10. an advantage or gain that customers obtain from performance of a service or use of a physical good
- 11. the degree to which a service satisfies customers by meeting their needs,wants, and expectations
- 14. physical objects or devices that provide benefits for customers through ownership or use
- 16. an act or performance that creates benefits for customers by bringing about a desired change in or on behalf of—the recipient
- 18. the core output (either a service or a manufactured good) produced by a firm