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Part 4

ALIGNING SERVICE DESIGN AND STANDARDS

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CUSTOMER

COMPANY

Gap 2: The Service Design and Standards Gap

Customer-driven

service designs and standards

Company perceptions of customer expectations

Provider Gap 2

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Key Factors Leading to Provider Gap 2

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Service Innovation and Design

Challenges of Service Innovation and Design

Important Considerations for Service Innovation

Types of Service Innovations

Stages in Service Innovation and Development

Service Blueprinting: A Technique for Service Innovation and Design

Chapter

8

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Objectives for Chapter 8: Service Innovation and Design

Describe the challenges inherent in service innovation and design.

Present an array of different types of service innovations, including service offering innovation, innovating around customer roles, and innovation through service solutions.

Discuss the importance of engaging customers and employees and employing service design thinking in service innovation.

Present the stages and unique elements of the service innovation and development process.

Demonstrate the value of service blueprinting and how to develop and read service blueprints.

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Risks of Relying on Words Alone to Describe Services

Oversimplification

Incompleteness

Subjectivity

Biased Interpretation

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Important Considerations for Service Innovation

Involve customers and employees

Employ service design thinking and techniques

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Important Considerations for Service Innovation

The five principles of service design thinking:

User-centered: Services should be experienced and designed through the customers eyes

Cocreative: All stakeholders should be included in the service design process

Sequencing: A service should be visualized as a sequence of interrelated actions

Evidencing: Intangible services should be visualized in terms of physical artifacts

Holistic: The entre environment of a service should be considered

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Types of Service Offering Innovations

Major or radical innovations

Start-up businesses

New services for the currently served market

Service line extensions

Service improvements

Style changes

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Service Innovation and Development Process

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New Service Strategy Matrix for Identifying Growth Opportunities

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Service Blueprinting

A tool for simultaneously depicting the service process, the points of customer contact, and the evidence of service from the customer’s point of view.

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Service Blueprint Components

Customer Actions

line of interaction

Visible Contact Employee Actions

line of visibility

Invisible Contact Employee Actions

line of internal interaction

Support Processes

Physical Evidence

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Service Blueprint Components

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Blueprint for Express Mail Delivery Service

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Blueprint for Overnight Hotel Stay Service

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Blueprint for DVD Rental Kiosk

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Benefits of Service Blueprinting

Provides a platform for innovation.

Recognizes roles and interdependencies among functions, people, and organizations.

Facilitates both strategic and tactical innovations.

Transfers and stores innovation and service knowledge.

Designs moments of truth from the customer’s point of view.

Suggests critical points for measurement and feedback in the service process.

Clarifies competitive positioning.

Provides understanding of the ideal customer experience.

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Building a Service Blueprint

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