Balancing conceptual and applied coverage of all aspects of the management and operation of services, Service Management has maintained the position as market leader through five previous editions. It is the most comprehensive and widely used introduction to service operations on the market, written by one of the top authorities on the subject, and it is designed to develop students' skills in both strategic and operational issues pertaining to services. The Seventh Edition also offers the latest information on Six-Sigma and RFID, as well as recent developments in other important industry topics. Text coverage spans both qualitative and quantitative aspects of service management and offers flexibility in courses, offering varying approaches to the study of service operations. The new edition is designed to develop students' skills in both strategic and operational issues pertaining to services.
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L'autore:
James Fitzsimmons received a B.S.E. in industrial engineering from the University of Michigan, an M.B.A. from Western Michigan University, and a Ph.D. with distinction from the University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. Fitzsimmons has held faculty appointments at UCLA, California State UniversityNorthridge, the University of New Mexico, Boston University Overseas Graduate Program, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, and the Helsinki School of Economics and Business. His research in the area of emergency ambulance location won the Stan Hardy Award in 1983 for the best paper published in the field of operations management. A computer program, CALL, has been used worldwide to plan emergency ambulance systems. Dr. Fitzsimmons is a registered professional engineer in Michigan and has held industrial engineering positions at Corning Glass Works and Hughes Aircraft Company. He served in the U.S. Air Force as an officer in charge of base construction projects.
Contenuti:
PART I: Understanding Services
Chapter 1: The Role of Services in an Economy
Chapter 2: The Nature of Services
Chapter 3: Service Strategy
PART II: Designing the Service Enterprise
Chapter 4: New Service Development
Chapter 5: Technology in Services
Chapter 6: Service Quality
Chapter 7: Supporting Facility and Process Flows
Chapter 8: Process Improvement
Chapter 9: The Service Encounter
Chapter 10: Service Facility Location
PART III: Managing Service Operations
Chapter 11: Managing Capacity and Demand
Chapter 12: Managing Waiting Lines
Chapter 13: Service Supply Relationships
Chapter 14: Growth and Globalization of Services
Chapter 15: Managing Projects
PART IV: Quantitative Models for Service Management
Chapter 16: Capacity Planning and Queuing Models (Computer Simulation)
Chapter 17: Forecasting Demand for Services
Chapter 18: Managing Facilitating Goods
Appendices:
Areas of a Standard Normal Distribution
Uniformly Distributed Random Numbers [0,1]
Values of Lq for the M/M/c Queuing Model
Equations for Selected Queuing Models
Index
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- EditoreMcGraw-Hill Education / Asia
- Data di pubblicazione2010
- ISBN 10 0071289275
- ISBN 13 9780071289276
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine608
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