Business Management Service

"This book provides managers with a strong, practical grounding in the concepts that are critical to understanding the transformation from front-end e-business to cross-enterprise service platforms." --Dr. Peter Zencke, Member of the Executive Board, SAP AG The trend is clear: Corporations are increasingly relying on technology-enabled services to gain a competitive edge. E-Commerce->e-business->e-services->multi-channel services. Industry leaders and followers alike are digitizing services in order to become more customer-driven and process-centric. To execute this service digitization strategy, managers must learn to effectively translate business imperatives into multi-channel services processes, applications, and infrastructure. "Services Blueprint: Roadmap for Execution reveals how managers can plan, analyze, and execute a coherent services strategy without getting lost in a sea of technical buzzwords. "Services Blueprint begins by introducing and defining the concept of services digitization and the two components--focal points and service platforms--required to execute it effectively. The authors then examine the different blueprints: multi-channel customer relationship management, spend management, supply chain management, human capital management, and product lifestyle management. Throughout the book, case studies illustrate key insights and best practices as companies evolve their execution focus: enterprise applications->Web Services->composite applications->services. Drawing on their experience working with leading businesses, Kalakota and Robinson provide readers with a roadmap of how to achieve differentiation through multi-channel services, translatebusiness objectives into process models such as order-to-cash, and leverage enterprise application investments to create new cross-enterprise services platforms. "Services Blueprint clearly explains why some firms are better at digitizing business processes and capturing value than others.

This book approaches service management from a multidisciplinary prospective drawing upon research from economics, consumer behavior, marketing, strategy, international management, management science and operational management. It offers in-depth coverage the topics that are usually relevant to service management. Readers cover service concepts, then how to build the system to create customer value and satisfaction with superior quality services followed by operational challenges managers of service organizations face and finally tools and techniques for managing a service operation. services in our society, the nature of services and service encounters, customers: the focus of service management, globalization of services, service strategy and competitiveness, positioning and marketing of services, technology and its impact on services and their management, design and development of services and service delivery systems, human resource development for services, work measurement in services, locating facilities and designing their layout, managing demand and supply, management science tools for scheduling capacity - queuing and simulation, service quality and continuous improvement, service productivity and measurement of performance, management of public and not-for-profit service organizations, forecasting for services, vehicle routing and scheduling, project management, linear and goal programming for service operations management, inventory systems for service operations.middle and top managers of service companies.