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Drop class Do not like Attend first class Still want class End of
process
Service quality and customer satisfaction
Word-of-mouth
Personal needs Past experience
communications
Expected service
Gap 5
Perceived service
Trouble Keep it up
High
Customer
Performance
Expectations
Low
Low High
Be low key Too much effort
Customer Performance Perceptions
Pre-purchase During purchase Post-purchase
Customer service
strategy
Top management
Human resource
support and
involvement
High-level management
customer
service
Measuring
Service
customer service
infrastructure
quality
Best Practices
• Strategic Concept
• Hotel Chains
• Top-Management Commitment
• Wipro, Infosys, Apollo Hospital, McDonald’s
• High Standards
• Self-Service Technologies
• IBM
• Monitoring Systems
• Satisfying Customer Complaints
• Satisfying Employees
• Case: India Post
Customer Service Dimensions: Flower of Customer Service
Information
Billing Order-taking
Safekeeping
Case: Indigo Airlines
• New to established brand
• Most preferred carrier even for business class
Using mass communication in launch markets
• “Indigo in your town..ready for take-off”
• Comfortable fares and easy access
• TV Commercial: economic and easier
Targeting the corporate passenger: On time, every time
More routes, better frequency
Special package to corporate clients
Customers expect more is a challenge