TY - BOOK AU - Urquhart,Fiona TI - Service excellence in organizations: eight key steps to follow and achieve it T2 - Service systems and innovations in business and society collection, SN - 9781631577024 AV - HF5415.5 PY - 2019///.] CY - New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) PB - Business Expert Press KW - Customer service KW - Management KW - Customer delight KW - Brand engagement KW - Service drama KW - Servicescape KW - Customer activity cycle KW - Brand authenticity KW - Customer relationship management KW - Loyalty KW - Advocacy KW - Partnering KW - Customer lifetime value KW - Touchpoints KW - Product/service lifecycle KW - Change drivers KW - Innovation KW - Design thinking KW - Service development KW - Service blueprint KW - Service dominant logic KW - [genre] KW - Electronic books N1 - 2; Chapter 1. Introduction to service excellence --; Chapter 2. Entice --; Chapter 3. Ensure quality --; Chapter 4. Establish trust --; Chapter 5. Exceeding customer needs and expectations; Access restricted to authorized users and institutions; 2; b; Also available in printing N2 - In this first volume, the first chapter introduces the distinction between customer service and service excellence and some of the drivers behind this. The way in which the brand acts to draw the customer into a relationship is covered in the second chapter. The third chapter explores aspects of the customer, their behavior, and experience that any organization needs to understand intimately in order to be able to offer a sensitive and responsive service. A huge element of effective service provision and relationship building is trust, and this is the subject of the fourth chapter. The fifth and the final chapter addresses the quality aspects ofservice and the way in which some organizations regularly go above and beyond expectations to delight their customer, keep them coming back, and make them rave about the experience they have in their relationships with the organization UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ciu.edu?url=https://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/BEPB0000895.html ER -