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Strategic Communications at Starbucks

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

Business Dynamics of ZDNet News

rely on ZDNet to deliver deep insight into IT planning, vendor consideration, and product selection" (ZDNet, 2006). To accomplish...

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...

Amazon.com Case Study

and start reading it straightaway, in the case of a CD they can listen to it immediately in a car. Ordering any product online mea...

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...

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...

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...

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...

HRM Annotated Bibliography

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

Creating Loyalty in Airline Customers

competitive advantage. Airlines have sought to do this in different ways, for example, Singapore Airlines used the smiling air ho...

Key Customer Account Programs - Challenges for Implementation and Maintenance

et al., 2008). It may be argued that one of IBMs problems and to the changes being in the beginning of the 21st century the frag...

The Use of Customer Relationship Management in High End Fashion

satisfy certain criteria laid down by the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture. Each year a list is drawn up by the commission wh...

Assessing Gaps in Service

method of evaluation identifies different measures where there may be a gap between the level of service expected and that gained....

Resources and Competitive Advantage

introduction to Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society, Senge, Scharmer, Jaworski and Flowers (...

Utilities Company in Southern California

the backcountry, where the weather gets very dry and then, pass on any of their costs to customers instead of holding the company ...

Improving A Fast Food Retail Environment

table 1 Table 1retail environment comparison between Goodys and Everest Traffic Flow Crowdedness Accessibility Environment Overal...

Inside a Flocafe and Starbucks

often a queue, the queue moves along a counter where different food items are displayed, with sandwiches, cakes and other snack it...

McDonald's Pricing

of McDonalds and 20) Analyze the pricing strategies and tactics followed by McDonalds Formerly the undisputed leader in the...

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...

If Marketing Aims To Meet Customer Expectations Why Are Consumer Rights Such An Issue Today?

2003). There are many definition of corporate social responsibility, Kotler and Lee define it as "a commitment to improve communit...

How And Why Companies Benefit From Customers Breaking Rules

a fair value service. There are a large number of examples that demonstrate the way that companies can benefit from custome...

The Ritz-Carlton

to impact on the mass market providers rather than the upper market providers where demand is not as sensitive to economic conditi...

Managerial Process Management Tools

The four functions that Mintzberg described decades ago when building on the work of Henri Fayol continue to be applicable today, ...

Data Use in CRM

technology" (Clow and Baack, 2007; p. 360). CRM is most effective when "customers have highly differentiated needs, highly differ...

Customer Service

so forth and so forth. The cycle repeated every month until I finally gave up trying to correct it. However, as soon as the contra...

TECHNOLOGY, CUSTOMERS AND THE EXAMPLE OF VOLVO

to paying customers. If paying customers are put off by an employees attitude (due to his/her frustration), its a sure bet the cus...

Biggest Hacking in U.S. History

Just before Thanksgiving 2013, malware was installed on Target's security and payments system that was designed to capture all the...

The Impact of Corporate Culture on Customer Services - A Proposal for Case Study Research

The writer presents a proposal to assess the link between corporate culture at an airline and the reasons for poor levels of custo...