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To serve them all our days

The financial service industry is moving towards a more consumer, rather than product-led, orientation, with the philosophy of good service now becoming increasingly important. However, in this expanding area of market research the facilitator and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Research For Financial Services

Authors: Kate Willis, Amanda Keech

June 15, 1988

A new service transforms members of a club into clients of a company

A new product or service can open, for some corporations, the way of re-conquering a tired clientele, or attracting a new one. The Catalonian Automobile Club (Reial Automdbil Club de Catalunya), looked at itself, until 1985 and after 80 years of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1987

Author: Susana Tisler

September 1, 1987

ASAB quality

This paper is an effort to describe a quality process that is going on, at a big service company in Sweden. A process that is aiming to a better relation with the customers and an improved internal climate.

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Strategies For Service Management

Authors: Ake Ericsson, Anna Kahn

June 15, 1987

Creating a service culture

This paper outlines the research programme which has been instituted to monitor the multifarious aspects of the Customer First Programme instituted in Lloyds Bank. This is initially planned to span two and a half years. The elements of the research...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Strategies For Service Management

Authors: Don Porter, John F. Swift

June 15, 1987

Station investment

The paper describes the methods used, and results obtained, in a study of passenger priorities for improvements at rail stations. The Dutch Railways (Nederlandse Spoorwegen) are constantly seeking to upgrade their services and facilities in an...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1987

Authors: Geoff Copley, A. Bouma, E. de Graaf

June 15, 1987

Relearning customer service at the U.S. auto dealer

The consumer has ambivalent feelings about the new car dealer, who has long been protected by the exclusive franchise system. In the U.S. market there are signs that the dealer franchise system is already undergoing a revolution, caused by changes in...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Strategies For Service Management

Author: Philip Wade

Company: JD Power

June 15, 1987

Determining critical levels for quality dimensions in service firms

The purpose of this paper is to give some guidelines of how one can set suitable levels of service components. It is too much to say that we will present a methodology for this purpose. We provide some indications of what can be done. In the paper we...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Strategies For Service Management

Author: Mikael Paltschik

June 15, 1987

Perception of the quality of service and corporate image

The purpose of this paper is to make some remarks and comments on the relationship between: - the Corporate Image, a concept which is more and more important on a market where the financial terms, the interests paid, the criteria used for giving...

Catalogue: Seminar 1985: Assessing And Improving The Quality Of Financial Services

Author: Jean Quatresooz

June 15, 1985

The importance of service management when entering into competition with other sectors

In the current situation of intensified competition with other financial institutions it is in my view necessary to gear the bank's marketing approach to the needs of the customers - and focus on their many different needs. Success is reserved to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1985: Assessing And Improving The Quality Of Financial Services

Author: Lars von Bahr

June 15, 1985