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9780077841201

MP Service Management with Service Model Software Access Card

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  • ISBN13:

    9780077841201

  • ISBN10:

    0077841204

  • Edition: 8th
  • Format: Hardcover w/ Access Card
  • Copyright: 2013-01-22
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

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Summary

The eighth edition continues to acknowledge and emphasize the essential uniqueness of service management. The text is organized in four parts: Part One: Understanding Services, which provides a historical context as well as distinguishes the distinctive characteristics of service operations; Part Two: Designing the Service Enterprise, which covers designing the service enterprise to support the competitive strategy; Part Three: Managing Service Operations that details topics such as Managing Capacity, Demand and Waiting Lines and Service Supply Relationships and; Part Four: Quantitative Models for Service Management that addresses forecasting and managing service inventory.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: Understanding Services

Chapter 1: The Service Economy

Chapter 2: Service Strategy

PART TWO: Designing the Service Enterprise

Chapter 3: New Service Development

Chapter 4: The Service Encounter

Chapter 5: Supporting Facility and Process Flows

Chapter 6: Service Quality

Chapter 7: Process Improvement

Supplement: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) 205

Chapter 8: Service Facility Location

PART THREE: Managing Service Operations

Chapter 9: Service Supply Relationships

Chapter 10: Globalization of Services

Chapter 11: Managing Capacity and Demand

Chapter 12: Managing Waiting Lines

Chapter 13: Capacity Planning and Queuing Models

Supplement: Computer Simulation

PART FOUR: Quantitative Models for Service Management

Chapter 14: Forecasting Demand for Services

Chapter 15: Managing Service Inventory

Chapter 16: Managing Service Projects

APPENDIX

Appendix A: Areas of Standard Normal Distribution

Appendix B: Uniformly Distributed Random Numbers [0, 1]

Appendix C: Values of Lq for the M/M/c Queuing Model

Appendix D: Equations for Selected Queuing Models

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