內容簡介
Bordoloi's Service Management 10e contains extensive coverage of the impacts of COVID-19 including the service innovation and progress experienced by a global pandemic. Written in an engaging literary style, based on research and consulting experience of authors, it focuses on service for competitive advantage and integrates technology, operations, and human behavior and the need for continuous quality improvement to be effective in a global environment. This edition continues to acknowledge and emphasize the essential uniqueness of service management.
The book is written in an engaging literary style, makes extensive use of examples, and is based on the research and consulting experience of the authors. The theme of managing services for competitive advantage is emphasized in each chapter and provides a focus for each management topic. The integration of technology, operations, and human behavior is recognized as central to effective service management. Emphasis is placed on the need for continuous improvement in quality and productivity in order to compete effectively in a global environment. Each chapter begins with a vignette of a well-known company to motivate the reader and illustrate the strategic nature of the topic to be covered. Each chapter has a preview, a closing summary, key terms and definitions, a service benchmark, topics for discussion, an interactive exercise, solved problems and exercises when appropriate, and one or more cases.
作者介紹
作者簡介
Sanjeev K. Bordoloi
現職:University of St. Thomas, Minnesola
James A. Fitzsimmons
現職:University of Texas at Austin
目錄
PART I: UNDERSTANDING SERVICES
Ch 1 The Service Economy
Ch 2 Service Strategy
PART II: DESIGNING THE SERVICE ENTERPRISE
Ch 3 New Service Development
Ch 4 The Service Encounter
Ch 5 Supporting Facility and Process Flows
Ch 6 Service Quality
Ch 7 Process Improvement Supplement: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
Ch 8 Service Facility Location
PART III: MANAGING SERVICE OPERATIONS
Ch 9 Service Supply Relationships
Ch10 Globalization of Services
Ch11 Managing Capacity and Demand
Ch12 Managing Waiting Lines
Ch13 Capacity Planning and Queuing Models Supplement: Computer Simulation
PART IV: QUANTITATIVE MODELS FOR SERVICE MANAGEMENT
Ch14 Forecasting Demand for Services
Ch15 Managing Service Inventory
Ch16 Managing Service Projects