As the fastest-growing sectors of the current global economy, both hospitality and healthcare services sector offer tremendous growth opportunities for incumbents and entrepreneurial opportunities for new entrants. To flourish on these opportunities, one must first understand each industry's unique characteristics. This course is designed to help those who are interested in career advancement opportunities in these industries or who want to be inspired by these industries to better equip themselves with enlightened and creative management capabilities. People who have successfully completed this course will be able to: (1) Identify the unique characteristics of service businesses and create successful management strategies to better manage the role of customers to gain desirable business outcomes, better market products than are intangible, and better manage customer expectations and perceptions. (2) Identify the unique characteristics of the hospitality industry, explain the process of balancing supply and demand in the hospitality industry, and implement optimal marketing and management strategies for this unique market. (3) Identify the unique characteristics of the healthcare industry, explain how this industry is evolving into the experience business, and better manage human interactions and facility to enhance the quality of customer experience. (4) Gain insights from the innovative approaches in the service industry overall, in hospitality and health industry in particular, and better develop innovative strategies in your industry.
1.3. Unique characteristics of service businesses: 01. Customer participation
您将学习的技能
Variable Pricing, Marketing, Hospital Management, Hotel Management
审阅
GS
Jan 02, 2017
A good course that can be used to gain a quick understanding of the characteristics of Healthcare and Hospitality Industry and the marketing challenges involved.
VR
Jun 10, 2018
Very great insights and information provided with concentration to the International Hospitality & Health Care Services Marketing.
Service businesses have unique aspects that create both opportunities and challenges in successfully managing them. Explaining what they are and how they have been addressed are a key to successfully marketing a service business. In this module, learners will be introduced to those unique characteristics of service businesses. People who have successfully completed this module will (1) Classify the unique characteristics of service businesses and realize why service businesses require special management approaches and capabilities, (2) Demonstrate the ability to better manage the role of customers to gain desirable business outcomes, (3) Develop capabilities to better market products than are intangible, and (4) Improve customer expectations and perceptions.
教学方
Sunmee Choi
Professor of Service Management
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