Generalist View of Marketing and Operations:
The marketing and operations functions are central to the effectiveness of any organisation because it is responsible for translating the voice of the customer. Increasingly, today organisations need to balance the voice of the customer with service quality of a product or service. Today, the service sector has increasingly dominated the majority of economies in the developed world. For example, within UK, the service sector provides up to 77.8% of GDP (Monaghan,2013).Therefore, the challenge is create a robust interface between marketing and service operations.
There are many such examples within the continuously evolving environment of the public sector. The ability of NHS hospitals to deliver high class patient care, or of Universities to deliver high class education, is fundamentally dependent on the skill with which managers design services, implementation processes, deploy resources and monitor and control quality and performance.
Task:
From the public, or commercial sectors, select a service providing organisation or part of an organisation for study. After, study and analysis, prepare a report that describes the Marketing (Part A) and Service Operations themes (Part B):
Part A: Marketing Target 2,500 words
1. Define the service for the selected service organisation through highlighting the service characteristics.
2. Discuss the 7P's for the selected service organisation, while:
a. highlighting the most significant P's to the organisation by showing how they are utilised to emphasise the Business Mission Statement.
b. highlighting how the 7P's have been utilised to support the segmentation, targeting and positioning of the organization.
3. Describe the customer experience and the need to connect with customers at a physical and emotional level. In particular, look at the customer journey and the perception points within that journey.