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Essays 451 - 480

Ameritech's Culture and Customer Service

In thirty pages Ameritech following its SBC Communications' acquisition is examined in terms of its present state of competition a...

Traditional to Customer Based Strategic Marketing Shifts

In eleven pages this paper discusses changes resulting from this strategic shift and its implications. Eleven sources are cited i...

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...

Dell Computer and a Change in Culture

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

Total Quality Management and Customer Service

First, customers want quality and theyll pay what they think is fair value to obtain it. This is a basic premise of any type of ma...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Strategic Plan for Dell

computer users - and therefore buyers - insist that they will not purchase another Dell computer unless and until Dell provides so...

Strategic Communications at Starbucks

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

Ritz Carlton Hotels and Guest Satisfaction Improved Through Customer Information Databases

staff member who hears or sees information that they believe will make the guest more comfortable (Berinato, 2002). The Ritz-Car...

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...

'Marketing Myopia and 'Increasing Customer Retention Potential' Reviewed

bankers, but its applicability to all industries is obvious. The cost of attracting a new customer always is higher than the cost...

New Home Loan Program and Countrywide Financial

a potential customer may be evaluating how much mortgage s/he can afford. Available calculators target individuals seeking to con...

Traditional to Customer Targeting Marketing Strategy

is not greatly adversely affected by the downtime of line configuration changes. Gomes, et al. (2003) investigate a company...

Narcissistic Persona and Body Aesthetics

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

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...

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...

Introducing the Apple iPhone

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

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...

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...

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...

Self Service Kiosks for Hotel Check-in and Check-out

A 5 page paper discussing the development and use of kiosks for use in hotel lobbies that customers can use to check in, select th...

Balance Score-card Use in SMEs

for the customers that the new products need to be developed (Gumbus and Lussier, 2006). Other metrics were used, such as quality....

HRM Annotated Bibliography

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

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...

Guest Service Management and Customer Satisfaction

company (Hooley et al, 2003). Loyalty is often perceived as a level of customer satisfaction, in a competitive industry it is like...

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...