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Inseparability is a term used in marketing to describe a key quality of services as distinct from goods, namely the characteristic that a service has which renders it impossible to divorce the supply or production of the service from its consumption. [1]
Perishability is used in marketing to describe the way in which service capacity cannot be stored for sale in the future. It is a key concept of services marketing. [1] Other key characteristics of services include intangibility, inseparability, fluctuating demand, pricing of services, heterogeneity and variability.
Core service: the basic reason for the business; that which solves consumer problems Supplementary goods and services: supplements or adds value to the core product and helps differentiate the service from competitors (e.g. consultation, safe-keeping, hospitality, exceptions)
Intangibility refers to the lack of palpable or tactile property making it difficult to assess service quality. [1] [2] [3] According to Zeithaml et al. (1985, p. 33), “Because services are performances, rather than objects, they cannot be seen, felt, tasted, or touched in the same manner in which goods can be sensed.” [4] As a result, intangibility has historically been seen as the most ...
The service provider must deliver the service at the exact time of service consumption. The service is not manifested in a physical object that is independent of the provider. The service consumer is also inseparable from service delivery. Examples: The service consumer must sit in the hairdresser's chair, or in the airplane seat.
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Service Blueprint The service blueprint is a way to describe the flow of a customer through a service operation from the start to the finish, along with the actions provided by the service providers both in interaction with the customer and in the "back room" out of sight of the customer. For example, if a customer wishes to purchase a suit ...
The service–profit chain is the central concept in a theory of business management which links employee satisfaction to customer loyalty and profitability.It was proposed in an article in the Harvard Business Review in 1994 by James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, and Leonard Schlesinger, [1] and was later the subject of the book The Service Profit Chain – How Leading Companies Link Profit and ...