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PGDM-PT (2013-16 ): Term-VIII

Course Name: Services Marketing
Credits 3
Faculty Name Krishna Das Gupta
Program PGDM-PT
Class and Term 2013- 16 Term VIII

Course Description Ever since this trend was set in 90’s, services have gained dominance. The competition in service organizations is becoming intense and severe. As a result of these organizations have to have a more professional approach to managing their business. Perhaps it is in this context that the role of marketing is gaining importance in the service organizations. The growth of services sector worldwide is evidenced by the fact that the economies of developed countries are today in post-service stage, where the contribution of services to GDP is more than 75%.In the Indian context too, the transition from agriculture to service economy has been largely successful where the contribution of service sector to GDP is more than 56% .It is imperative to understand the nuances that differentiate manufactured goods from services. The course on Service Marketing tries to extend the central theme of marketing management in the services context and reexamine concepts that need modification and clarification and may not be extendable in the present format


Course Objective

The course has been designed to familiarize participants with the characteristics of services, their implications on design and delivery, and highlight the role of coordinated organizational effort through marketing, human resources and operations in gaining sustainable competitive advantage. The course will have embedded field assignments that will help students better appreciate services as an offering and enable them to discern the differentiators from goods.


Student Learning Outcomes

After going through this course the students will be able to

· Reach a conclusion if conceptually services need to be differentiated or assimilated with manufactured goods based on the classical characteristics.
· Experience customer’s role as coproducer or co creator in association with the service deliverer, the internal customer.
· Relook critical marketing mix variables from the “coproducer” perspective thereby creating better value for all stakeholders.
· To measure and manage service quality for better customer loyalty and retention

Required Text Books and Reading Material
1
Services Marketing –Integrating Customer Focus Across the Firm (5th Edition), Tata McGraw Hill Publishing, Private Limited (2010).Valarie A Zeithaml, Mary Jo Bitner, Dwayne D Gremler and Ajay Pandit


Session Plan

Session NumberTopics/ActivitiesReading/case list etc.
1&2Role and Importance of Services in the Global Economy, Introduction to the concept of “Services”. Conceptual Framework: The GAP model Chapters 1 & 2 Levitt, T. "Marketing Intangible Products and Product Intangibles", Case
3 ,4 &5 Consumer Behavior for Services
Customer Expectations of Service
Customer Perceptions of Service		Chapter 3,4&5
B Joseph Pine &James H Gilmore, “Welcome to the Experience Economy”HBR,July-Aug,1994, Case Analysis – TiVO in 2002: Consumer Behavior
6& 7Listening to Customer through research, Understanding Customer Expectations, Listening to Customer, Building Customer Relationships, Relationship Marketing, Customer ProfitabilityChapter 6 & 7, Case
Carlzon, J. "Putting the Customer First: The Key to Service Strategy" The McKinsey Quarterly,
Summer 1997.
8Service Recovery, Impact of services failure and recovery. Service Recovery Strategies Chapter 8, Case
C. L. Hart, “The Profitable Art of Service Recovery”
9 & 10Service Development and Design, Service InnovationChapter 9 & 10
Shostack, G. L. "Designing Services that Deliver", Harvard Business Review, January - February
1984, pp. 133 -139
11&12Approaches to pricing services, Revenue ManagementChapter 17,Case
13&14Managing Demand & Capacity,
Capacity constraints, Demand Patterns, Yield Management		Chapter 15. Sasser, “Match Demand and Supply in Service Industries “Case
15Service delivery through Intermediaries and Services Marketing Communication, Physical Evidence and the Service Landscape, Strategic Issues in Managing Services

Chapter 14 & 16 B Mittal, “The Advertising of Services: Meeting the Challenge of Intangibility,” Journal of Services Research 2 (August 1999),pp. 98-116

Pedagogy:

The course will help students develop an appreciation of select businesses in the service sector like financial services, hospitality, healthcare, travel, consultancy services, telecom, etc through, case discussions, presentations, assignments and lectures. Students are required to submit 2 page written analysis of the case prior to the commencement of the discussion.

Evaluation

Quiz - 30%
Case Discussion & Write up – 10%
Group Assignment– 20%
End -Term - 40%

Academic Integrity
As per the Institute’s mannual of policies.
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