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Service Management: Operations, Strategy, Information Technology https://www.mheducation.com/cover-images/Jpeg_400-high/1264098359.jpeg 10 2023 9781264098354 Bordoloi's Service Management 10e contains extensive coverage of the impacts of COVID-19 including the service innovation and progress experienced by a global pandemic. Written in an engaging literary style, based on research and consulting experience of authors, it focuses on service for competitive advantage and integrates technology, operations, and human behavior and the need for continuous quality improvement to be effective in a global environment. This edition continues to acknowledge and emphasize the essential uniqueness of service management. The book is written in an engaging literary style, makes extensive use of examples, and is based on the research and consulting experience of the authors. The theme of managing services for competitive advantage is emphasized in each chapter and provides a focus for each management topic. The integration of technology, operations, and human behavior is recognized as central to effective service management. Emphasis is placed on the need for continuous improvement in quality and productivity in order to compete effectively in a global environment. Each chapter begins with a vignette of a well-known company to motivate the reader and illustrate the strategic nature of the topic to be covered. Each chapter has a preview, a closing summary, key terms and definitions, a service benchmark, topics for discussion, an interactive exercise, solved problems and exercises when appropriate, and one or more cases.
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Service Management: Operations, Strategy, Information Technology
Service Management: Operations, Strategy, Information Technology

Service Management: Operations, Strategy, Information Technology, 10th Edition

ISBN10: 1264098359 | ISBN13: 9781264098354
By Sanjeev Bordoloi, James Fitzsimmons and Mona Fitzsimmons
© 2023

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Bordoloi's Service Management 10e contains extensive coverage of the impacts of COVID-19 including the service innovation and progress experienced by a global pandemic. Written in an engaging literary style, based on research and consulting experience of authors, it focuses on service for competitive advantage and integrates technology, operations, and human behavior and the need for continuous quality improvement to be effective in a global environment. This edition continues to acknowledge and emphasize the essential uniqueness of service management. The book is written in an engaging literary style, makes extensive use of examples, and is based on the research and consulting experience of the authors. The theme of managing services for competitive advantage is emphasized in each chapter and provides a focus for each management topic. The integration of technology, operations, and human behavior is recognized as central to effective service management. Emphasis is placed on the need for continuous improvement in quality and productivity in order to compete effectively in a global environment. Each chapter begins with a vignette of a well-known company to motivate the reader and illustrate the strategic nature of the topic to be covered. Each chapter has a preview, a closing summary, key terms and definitions, a service benchmark, topics for discussion, an interactive exercise, solved problems and exercises when appropriate, and one or more cases.

PART ONE Understanding Services
1 The Service Economy
2 Service Strategy
PART TWO Designing the Service Enterprise
3 New Service Development
4 The Service Encounter
5 Supporting Facility and Process Flows
6 Service Quality
7 Process Improvement
Supplement: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
8 Service Facility Location
PART THREE Managing Service Operations
9 Service Supply Relationships
10 Globalization of Services
11 Managing Capacity and Demand
12 Managing Waiting Lines
13 Capacity Planning and Queuing Models
Supplement: Computer Simulation
PART FOUR Quantitative Models for Service Management
14 Forecasting Demand for Services
15 Managing Service Inventory
16 Managing Service Projects
APPENDIX
A Areas of Standard Normal Distribution
B Uniformly Distributed Random Numbers [0, 1]
C Values of Lq for the M/M/c Queuing Model
D Equations for Selected Queuing Models


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About the Author

Sanjeev Bordoloi

James Fitzsimmons

James Fitzsimmons received a B.S.E. in industrial engineering from the University of Michigan, an M.B.A. from Western Michigan University, and a Ph.D. with distinction from the University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. Fitzsimmons has held faculty appointments at UCLA, California State University–Northridge, the University of New Mexico, Boston University Overseas Graduate Program, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, and the Helsinki School of Economics and Business. His research in the area of emergency ambulance location won the Stan Hardy Award in 1983 for the best paper published in the field of operations management. A computer program, CALL, has been used worldwide to plan emergency ambulance systems. Dr. Fitzsimmons is a registered professional engineer in Michigan and has held industrial engineering positions at Corning Glass Works and Hughes Aircraft Company. He served in the U.S. Air Force as an officer in charge of base construction projects. 

Mona Fitzsimmons

James Fitzsimmons received a B.S.E. in industrial engineering from the University of Michigan, an M.B.A. from Western Michigan University, and a Ph.D. with distinction from the University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. Fitzsimmons has held faculty appointments at UCLA, California State University–Northridge, the University of New Mexico, Boston University Overseas Graduate Program, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, and the Helsinki School of Economics and Business. His research in the area of emergency ambulance location won the Stan Hardy Award in 1983 for the best paper published in the field of operations management. A computer program, CALL, has been used worldwide to plan emergency ambulance systems. Dr. Fitzsimmons is a registered professional engineer in Michigan and has held industrial engineering positions at Corning Glass Works and Hughes Aircraft Company. He served in the U.S. Air Force as an officer in charge of base construction projects.

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