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Inside a Flocafe and Starbucks

often a queue, the queue moves along a counter where different food items are displayed, with sandwiches, cakes and other snack it...

Return on Quality

This 4 page paper looks at the way investment in quality can have the potential for a positive return on investment. A range of in...

Social Influences on Marketing; Winning and Retaining Customer Loyalty

a competitive advantage (Thompson, 2007). The issue faced by many companies in marketing terms is not only the way to comp...

Aspen Technology Inc Case Study

fees over the period of the license which complies with the matching concept in accounting. It may be argued that there was an imp...

If Marketing Aims To Meet Customer Expectations Why Are Consumer Rights Such An Issue Today?

2003). There are many definition of corporate social responsibility, Kotler and Lee define it as "a commitment to improve communit...

How And Why Companies Benefit From Customers Breaking Rules

a fair value service. There are a large number of examples that demonstrate the way that companies can benefit from custome...

The Ritz-Carlton

to impact on the mass market providers rather than the upper market providers where demand is not as sensitive to economic conditi...

Amazon.com Case Study

and start reading it straightaway, in the case of a CD they can listen to it immediately in a car. Ordering any product online mea...

AOL Latin America

the companys existing systems could not deal with the added demand for service. Eventually AOL came to be Americas largest ISP, l...

Amazon's Frontiers

(2000) refers to as pragmatists adopt the technology they know they will need in the future. Specifically, the Internet is seen a...

Customer Services in Different Industries

As finished units are not kept in stock the customer service process begins prior to the ordering. To make an order the customer n...

Courting the Customer at Best Buy

billion. Increased revenues originate with higher same-store sales and revenues gained from additional stores opened during the p...

Introducing the Apple iPhone

that, Steve Jobs "stopped talking" (Elmer-DeWitt, 2007). His presentation "raised dozens of questions -- from the price of the pho...

Six Sigma Dos and Don'ts

about Dell is its generally unhelpful help desk personnel, however. Virtually all of Dells customer service representatives are i...

HRM Annotated Bibliography

have created a framework in which practitioners can "develop innovative instruments to measure the relationship among" human resou...

Service Issues in the PC Industry: Dell and Gateway Compared

the company is out of the water. Gateway realized it had a problem and got out and seemingly is doing better, but Dell continues t...

Hotel Industry and the Value of Efficient Customer Service

a guest that is tired, wants to book in, the reception em,ployees are talking to each other and slow to respond and then when the ...

Customer Service Orientation in the Healthcare Industry

and ties are the rule. The rules were relaxed for a short time in the nineties but management believes they were lowering their st...

Culinary Arts and Customer Service

of organizational effectiveness (Byrne, 1992; Gagne, 1983; Lowe and Masseo, 1986 cited in Emery, Summers and Surak, 1996). TQM foc...

Two Studies of Information Technology

gratification and for some purchases the inability to see and feel what they are. These different elements are seen as reassuring ...

Dell Computer and a Change in Culture

success include: * Effective internal communication * Efficient business processes * Employee training * Employee motivation * Pos...

Best E-Business Practices and Policies

information for the purpose of making a purchase. The best and most successful Internet businesses offer only high-quality produc...

Developing and Maintaining Customer Relationships Through Direct Marketing

Direct marketing must be fulfilling many goals as this s an area of rapid growth. This is one form of advertising that is easy to ...

Harris, Customer Service Management, and Making the Customer 'King'

The strategic plan feeds directly from the motto. The first step is to identify the needs of the customers. Initial input from pha...

4 Articles on Purchase and Inventory Control Management Reviewed

or a cheaper alterative will do the same job. This is the way of controlling spending, but to management costs and spendin...

Customers' Supermarket Wants Characteristic Assessment

from it. 6 I like to shop for bargain and am attracted to special offers 7 Quality is more important than price. 8 I like to have...

L.L. Bean Memo to Customer Service, Poster, and Speech

be in contact with customers by telephone, Internet, email and "snail mail," with the most common forms of initial contact being b...

Strategic Communications at Starbucks

Starbucks mission statement is concise yet provides a "plumb line" against which to measure decisions. The statement reads, Estab...

Narcissistic Persona and Body Aesthetics

personal recognition" (Benis, 2001). For decades, theorists have applied different psychological perspectives to an understa...

Consumer Behaviour and Marketing a Hotel

be looking for the best deal, the most service or facilities for the lowest price, where love is involved they may be looking for ...