Service Management Third Edition

Student Center

 

 

James Fitzsimmons website: http://www.bus.utexas.edu/~fitzj/

 

Chapter 1: The Role of Service in an Economy

 

Rate of growth of U.S. Jobs

http://stats.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cesbtab1.htm

 

Information and projections on occupational distribution of US Labor Force

http://www.census.gov/statab/freq/98s0673.txt

 

Chapter 2: The Nature of Services

 

Sloan Management Review: http://mitsloan.mit.edu/smr/index.html

 

Harvard Business Review: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/products/hbr/index.html

 

Roger Beasley Volvo (Austin, Texas service-oriented dealership)

http://www.texasvolvo.com

 

Granite Rock: http://www.graniterock.com/

 

Domino’s Pizza: http://www.dominos.com/

 

Chapter 3: Service Quality

 

Club Med: http://www.clubmed.com/

 

The following website is a tutorial on the SERVQUAL model and walks students through the methods:

http://www.mngt.waikato.ac.nz/depts/mnss/courses/emba/sqm/index.htm

 

A web page related to service quality techniques and gurus:

http://www.nestadt.com.au/qua50.html

 

An interesting article from the American Marketing Association on The History and Future of Service Quality Management:

http://207.154.156.75/pubs/article.asp?id=40

 

A slide show/outline on Quality methods:

http://apu.edu/~bmccarty/curricula/mse592/kerz23/tsld001.htm

 

One professor’s interesting thoughts on Poka-Yoke

http://www.campbell.berry.edu/faculty/jgrout/

 

Website for the Quality Function Deployment Institute:

http://www.qfdi.org/

 

The Juran Institute:

http://www.juran.com/main.html

 

ISO Home Page:

http://www.iso.ch/index.html

 

Malcolm Baldridge Quality Award Winners

http://orl.grolier.com/ea-online/wsja/text/ch04/tables/bi008.htm

 

ISO 9000 News Service:

http://www.iso.ch/9000e/news.html

 

Chapter 4: Service Strategy

 

Shouldice Hospital: http://www.shouldice.com/

 

Example of differentiation: Nordstrom’s

http://www.nordstrom.com/sitemenu.html

 

The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Company

http://www.hsb.com/

 

Southwest Airlines: http://www.iflyswa.com/

 

Service Benchmark: Central Market:

http://www.centralmarket.com/

 

Chapter 5: New Service Development and Process Design

 

Pacific Bell: http://www.pacbell.com/

 

An example of a commuter cleaner:

http://www.north-of-boston.com/constr/depc_ndx.htm

 

Chapter 6: The Supporting Facility

 

K-mart: http://www.kmart.com/

 

Wal-mart: http://www.wal-mart.com/

 

Shouldice Hospital: http://www.shouldice.com/

 

McDonalds: http://www.mcdonalds.com/

 

Visiting Nordstrom’s vs. Eddie Bauer’s online experience is much like text description of the store experience (layout and design)

http://www.eddiebauer.com/home/home.html

 

http://www.nordstrom.com/sitemenu.html

 

Interesting tutorial on facilities layout with graphics:

http://mansci2.uwaterloo.ca/~msci432/Notes/Facilities_Layout.htm

 

Best Buy: http://www.bestbuy.com/

 

Circuit City: http://www.circuitcity.com/

 

CompUSA: http://www.compusanet.com/

 

Chapter 7: Service Facility Location

 

Au Bon Pain: http://go.boston.com/sites/abp14/home.html

 

Chapter 8: The Service Encounter

 

Scandinavian Airlines: http://www.flysas.com/

 

ServiceMaster: http://www.servicemaster.com/

 

The Walt Disney Company: http://disney.go.com/home/homepage/today/html/index.html

 

Amy’s Ice Cream: http://austin.citysearch.com/E/V/AUSTX/0002/00/79/

 

Chapter 9: Internet Services

 

Market Maker: http://www.eBay.com/

 

Book Retailer: http://www.amazon.com/

 

Greeting Cards: http://www.bluemountain.com/

 

Medical Advice: http://drkoop.com/

 

Custom Golf Equipment: http://www.golfsmith.com/

 

Business Information: http://www.hoovers.com/

 

Stock Trading: http://www.E*Trade.com/

 

Seeds and Plants: http://www.burpee.com/

 

 

Chapter 10: Forecasting Demand for Services

 

The Rand Corporation: http://www.rand.org/

 

L.L. Bean: http://www.llbean.com/

 

Chapter 11: Managing Waiting Lines

 

Burger King: http://www.burgerking.com/

 

Burger King ex-employee complaint page:

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/2645/index.html

 

More on Hedrick Smith (PBS documentary)

http://www.pbs.org/powergame/

 

More on David H. Maister

http://www.davidmaister.com/home~1.HTM

 

The Olive Garden: http://www.olivegarden.com/

 

Thrifty Car Rental: http://www.thrifty.com/

 

Houston Port Authority: http://www.portofhouston.com/

 

Chapter 12: Queuing Models and Capacity Planning

Xerox Corporation: http://www.xerox.com

 

US West Communications: http://www.uswest.com/

 

Chapter 13: Managing Capacity and Demand

 

Additional information on Yield Management

http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/Floor/4921/

 

Holiday Inn: http://www.basshotels.com/holiday-inn

 

SABRE systems: http://www.sabre.com/

 

Ryder System Inc.: http://www.ryder.com/

 

Amtrak: http://www.amtrak.com/

 

American Airlines: http://www.aa.com

 

Chapter 14: Managing Facilitating Goods

 

Data Interchange Standards Association (for EDI): http://www.disa.org/

 

Genuine Parts Company: http://www.genpt.com/

 

Chapter 15: Service Supply Chain Management

 

Frito-Lay: http://www.fritolay.com/

 

Dell Computer: http://www.dell.com/

 

Chapter 16: Managing Service Projects

 

Boeing: http://www.boeing.com/

 

Additional information on Henry Gantt and the Gantt Chart:

http://westrek.hypermart.net/scientific/scientific04.htm

 

Additional information on Microsoft Project

http://www.microsoft.com/project/

 

Additional information on Managepro for Windows:

http://www.managepro.net/

 

Chapter 17: Linear Programming Applications in Services

 

FAQ’s for Linear Programming

http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/otc/Guide/faq/linear-programming-faq.html

 

American Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org/

 

Chapter 18: Quality and Productivity Improvement

 

FedEx: http://www.fedex.com/

 

The Deming Institute: http://deming.org/

 

Florida Power & Light: http://www.fpl.com/

 

Business Guide to Reengineering Books:

http://www.reengineering.net/

 

More information on Data Envelopment Analysis (two sites):

http://mscmga.ms.ic.ac.uk/jeb/or/dea.html

 

http://www.emp.pdx.edu/dea/wvedea.html

 

Chapter 18: Growth and Global Expansion

 

Days Inn: http://www.daysinn.com/ctg/cgi-bin/DaysInn

 

FedEx: http://www.fedex.com/

 

USAA: http://www.usaa.com/

 

The Mayo Clinic: http://www.mayo.edu/MayoHome.html

 

International Franchise Association: http://www.franchise.org/

 

Quarterdeck: http://www.quarterdeck.com/

 

More information on GATT

http://trading.wmw.com/gatt/

 



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