Exam 3: Process and Service Design

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The service matrix diagonal suggests that most service businesses have a tendency to drift towards the low customization-high speed flow 'service factory' quadrant by

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Computer-aided design and manufacturing systems can enable assembly-type production efficiencies

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Which of the following statements is/are true?

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Service blueprinting is a process design technique that adds details of the customer-server interaction and provides time estimates for tasks.

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Service design is

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Which of the following is not a tool for process design?

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Service blueprinting is a flowchart done in color.

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Compare and contrast product design methods with service design methods.

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Why is equipment utilization in process-focused service industries often lower than in comparative process-focused product industries?

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The 'House of Quality' identifies consumer priorities, conducts competitor comparisons, relates technical features to customer wants, and develops targets for technical features.

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The typical fast food restaurant such as Burger King uses a product-focused process.

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Explain briefly one process-design tool and one service-design tool.

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Equipment utilization is low in process-focused facilities as compared to product-focused facilities.

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Process-oriented designs are inflexible in terms of the variety of tasks/products that can be handled.

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Discuss briefly three or four examples of technology's impact on services. Include at least one that has led to a reduction in labor costs.

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Two types of assembly line production are __________ and __________.

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Service design is done using the 4Ts framework of tangibles, tasks, treatment, and time.

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Discuss the behavioral aspects of service design. Are they as important, less important, or more important than the non-behavioral aspects?

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A professional service such as a law firm requires highly skilled labor, and the managerial focus is to maximize utilization of skilled resources.

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Which of the following statements about the 3Ts model of service design is false?

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