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Service Management : Operations, Strategy, Information Technology - With CD (6TH 08 Edition)

by James A Fitzsimmons

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Balancing conceptual and applied coverage of all aspects of the management and operation of services, Service Management has maintained the position as market leader through five previous editions. It is the most comprehensive and widely used introduction to service operations on the market, written by one of the top authorities on the subject, and it is designed to develop students' skills in both strategic and operational issues pertaining to services. New material on Professional Service Firms highlights IBMs initiative to establish a Service Science, Management, and Engineering discipline. The Sixth Edition also offers the latest information on Six-Sigma and RFID, as well as recent developments in other important industry topics. Text coverage spans both qualitative and quantitative aspects of service management and offers flexibility in courses, offering varying approaches to the study of service operations. The ancillary package includes student CD-ROM and Website that includes self-test quizzes, video clips, ServiceModel Software, and the Mortgage Service Game.

Table of Contents

PART I: Understanding Services

Chapter 1: The Role of Services in an Economy

Chapter 2: The Nature of Services

Chapter 3: Service Strategy

PART II: Designing the Service Enterprise

Chapter 4: New Service Development

Chapter 5: Technology in Services

Chapter 6: Service Quality

Chapter 7: Process Improvement (DEA supplement)

Chapter 8: The Service Encounter

Chapter 9: Supporting Facility and Process Flows

Chapter 10: Service Facility Location

PART III: Managing Service Operations

Chapter 11: Managing Capacity and Demand

Chapter 12: Managing Waiting Lines

Chapter 13: Service Supply Relationships

Chapter 14: Growth and Globalization of Services

Chapter 15: Managing Projects

PART IV: Quantitative Models for Service Management

Chapter 16: Capacity Planning and Queuing Models (Computer Simulation)

Chapter 17: Forecasting Demand for Services

Chapter 18: Managing Facilitating Goods

Appendices:

Areas of a Standard Normal Distribution

Uniformly Distributed Random Numbers [0,1]

Values of Lq for the M/M/c Queuing Model

Equations for Selected Queuing Models

Product Details

ISBN:
9780077228491
Subtitle:
Operations, Strategy, Information Technology W/Student CD
Author:
Fitzsimmons, James A
Author:
Fitzsimmons, James A.
Author:
Fitzsimmons, Mona J.
Author:
Fitzsimmons James
Publisher:
Irwin/McGraw-Hill
Subject:
Operations Research
Subject:
Management - General
Copyright:
Publication Date:
October 2007
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Dimensions:
11.16x8.59x1.07 in. 3.10 lbs.

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