Strategic Service Management

Author : Eileen Forrester
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 0132700484
Total Pages : 1359 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book CMMI for Services written by Eileen Forrester and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 1359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMMI® for Services (CMMI-SVC) is a comprehensive set of guidelines to help organizations establish and improve processes for delivering services. By adapting and extending proven standards and best practices to reflect the unique challenges faced in service industries, CMMI-SVC offers providers a practical and focused framework for achieving higher levels of service quality, controlling costs, improving schedules, and ensuring user satisfaction. A member of the newest CMMI model, CMMI-SVC Version 1.3, reflects changes to the model made for all constellations, including clarifications of high-maturity practices, alignment of the sixteen core process areas, and improvements in the SCAMPI appraisal method. The indispensable CMMI® for Services, Second Edition, is both an introduction to the CMMI-SVC model and an authoritative reference for it. The contents include the complete model itself, formatted for quick reference. In addition, the book’s authors have refined the model’s introductory chapters; provided marginal notes to clarify the nature of particular process areas and to show why their practices are valuable; and inserted longer sidebars to explain important concepts. Brief essays by people with experience in different application areas further illustrate how the model works in practice and what benefits it offers. The book is divided into three parts. Part One begins by thoroughly explaining CMMI-SVC, its concepts, and its use. The authors provide robust information about service concepts, including a discussion of lifecycles in service environments; outline how to start using CMMI-SVC; explore how to achieve process improvements that last; and offer insights into the relationships among process areas. Part Two describes generic goals and practices, and then details the complete set of twenty-four CMMI-SVC process areas, including specific goals, specific practices, and examples. The process areas are organized alphabetically by acronym and are tabbed for easy reference. Part Three contains several useful resources, including CMMI-SVC-related references, acronym definitions, a glossary of terms, and an index. Whether you are new to CMMI models or are already familiar with one or more of them, this book is an essential resource for service providers interested in learning about or implementing process improvement.

Author : John A. GOODMAN
Publisher : AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
ISBN 13 : 081441334X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategic Customer Service written by John A. GOODMAN and published by AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. This book was released on 2009-05-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The success of any organization depends on high-quality customer service. But for companies that strategically align customer service with their overall corporate strategy, it can transcend typical good business to become a profitable word-of-mouth machine that will transform the bottom line. Drawing on over thirty years of research for companies such as 3M, American Express, Chik-Fil-A, USAA, Coca-Cola, FedEx, GE, Cisco Systems, Neiman Marcus, and Toyota, author Goodman uses formal research, case studies, and patented practices to show readers how they can: • calculate the financial impact of good and bad customer service • make the financial case for customer service improvements • systematically identify the causes of problems • align customer service with their brand • harness customer service strategy into their organization's culture and behavior Filled with proven strategies and eye-opening case studies, this book challenges many aspects of conventional wisdom—using hard data—and reveals how any organization can earn more loyalty, win more customers...and improve their financial bottom line.

Author : Great Britain. Cabinet Office
Publisher : Stationery Office/Tso
ISBN 13 : 9780113313044
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ITIL Service Strategy written by Great Britain. Cabinet Office and published by Stationery Office/Tso. This book was released on 2011 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides updated guidance on how to design, develop and implement service management both as an organisational capability and a strategic asset. It is a guide to a strategic review of ITIL-based service management capabilities, with the aim of improving their alignment with overall business needs. It is written primarily for senior managers who provide leadership and direction in the form of objectives, plans and policies. It is also benefits mangers at other levels, by explaining the logic of senior management decisions.

Author : James A. Fitzsimmons
Publisher : Irwin/McGraw-Hill
ISBN 13 : 9780072823738
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Service Management written by James A. Fitzsimmons and published by Irwin/McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 2004 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephan Kaiser
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642160638
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategic Management of Professional Service Firms written by Stephan Kaiser and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-19 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing strategies for professional service firms is an important and complex activity. The main issues in this book cover the core management principles for service firms in a comprehensive way. Based on current research findings it includes the management of service quality, knowledge and marketing as well as people, organizational and strategic issues. In understanding critical resources managers and partners will be able to effectively develop and exploit them. The book contains practical advice and offers a profound insight into the managerial excellence of service companies.

Author : Ewan Ferlie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135008035
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategic Management in Public Services Organizations written by Ewan Ferlie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Management in Public Services Organizations sets out to connect the two traditionally disparate academic literatures of public management and strategic management. The authors argue that some models of strategic management are now of enhanced relevance for contemporary public services organizations, especially when considering successive New Public Management reforms. This observation has important consequences for the requisite work practices, skills and knowledge bases of current public managers, as they are increasingly being asked to act as strategic as well as operational managers. Strategic Management in Public Services Organizations takes a strongly comparative and international perspective in addressing the fundamental issue of strategic management within diverse public administrative traditions. The impact of strategic management on the performance of public agencies is examined and it is argued that the appropriate use of strategic management models depends on the politico-administrative and cultural contexts of the public services organization in question, concluding that there is no single best way to strategically lead public organisations. This is an advanced textbook aimed at the postgraduate level, particularly students on MPAs and MBAs with a public sector option or MScs in Public Policy and Public Management.

Author : Bettie M.J. Goud
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000036189
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategic Service Management written by Bettie M.J. Goud and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Services comprise about 70% of the BNP in most Western societies. Services surround us each and every day and include such sectors as medical, IT, financial, travel, telecommunication and educational. This book is about services and has been written for service managers and practitioners as well as students who aim to move into those areas. The book outlines the fundamental issues of service and service management - offering support by discussing some twenty different business administration models. Real-world examples from both non-profit and for-profit sectors are used throughout the book as well as "what to do" summaries. This text provides an excellent introduction to service management for students of marketing, economics, business administration, hospitality management and other courses.

Author : James A. Fitzsimmons
Publisher : McGraw-Hill
ISBN 13 : 9780071263467
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Service Management written by James A. Fitzsimmons and published by McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 2008 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balancing conceptual and applied coverage of all aspects of the management and operation of services, Service Management has maintained the position as market leader through five previous editions. It is the most comprehensive and widely used introduction to service operations on the market, written by one of the top authorities on the subject, and it is designed to develop students' skills in both strategic and operational issues pertaining to services. New material on Professional Service Firms highlights IBM’s initiative to establish a Service Science, Management, and Engineering discipline. The Sixth Edition also offers the latest information on Six-Sigma and RFID, as well as recent developments in other important industry topics. Text coverage spans both qualitative and quantitative aspects of service management and offers flexibility in courses, offering varying approaches to the study of service operations. The ancillary package includes student CD-ROM and Website that includes self-test quizzes, video clips, ServiceModel Software, and the Mortgage Service Game.

Author : Denis Boyle
Publisher : Pergamon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategic Service Management written by Denis Boyle and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1990 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Service Management is a new approach for competitive success which embraces the major developments in service management thinking over the 1980s. In this volume case studies from a wide variety of industries, both in the private and public sector, focus on the main areas of this approach: creating competitive strategies for a service oriented business; and the process of successful and accelerated strategy implementation. The authors provide valuable ideas and techniques for the service business aiming for market leadership and profit growth, and for all companies where adding value with service and motivating employees towards business goals is vital. This is the 7th volume in the Best of Long Range Planning series which brings together the best articles on a particular topic from the Long Range Planning journal so that readers wishing to study a specific aspect of planning can find an authoritative and comprehensive view of the subject, conveniently published in one volume.

Author : John O. Long
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461438977
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ITIL® 2011 At a Glance written by John O. Long and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "ITIL® 2011 At a Glance" is an important update to the internationally-recognized ITIL® best practices for IT Service Management. "ITIL® 2011 At a Glance" provides graphical and textual memory joggers for the primary concepts of those best practices. IT organizations worldwide are implementing ITIL® as a vehicle for improving IT service quality and improve return on investment for IT services. This book is an update based on the ITIL 2011 Update. The desk reference’s unique graphical approach will take otherwise complex textual descriptions and make the information accessible in a series of consistent, simple diagrams. "ITIL® 2011 At a Glance" will be of interest to organizations looking to train their staffs in a consistent and cost-effective way. Further, this book is ideal for anyone involved in planning consulting, implementing, or testing an ITIL® implementation.