Publications
Publications
- 2014
- Managing Consumer Services
Customer Experience and Service Design
By: Uday S. Karmarkar and Uma R. Karmarkar
Abstract
While services already dominate economic activity in all major economies in the world, there has been curiously little investigation into many aspects of service management. For example, while product design and development have received a great deal of attention, the subject of service design has not been very visible in the research literature. There are many individual designers and design firms famous for their contributions to product design, but the same cannot be said for services. Undoubtedly many examples of outstanding service design exist, and we will mention some later in this work. But recognition of service design as a discipline, as a management function, or a job description still seems to be rare.
Keywords
Service Design; Service Management; Product Design; Service Operations; Customer Satisfaction; Service Industry
Citation
Karmarkar, Uday S., and Uma R. Karmarkar. "Customer Experience and Service Design." Chap. 7 in Managing Consumer Services: Factory or Theater? edited by Enzo Baglieri and Uday Karmarkar, 109–130. Springer, 2014.