Gujarat Technological University MBA Semester - IV

9. Session Plan:
MM : Services and Relationship Marketing (SRM)
Session
Topic
no.
1 What are Services? ; Why Study Services, Role of services in the economy
2 Services and Technology - technology in service encounter, emergence of
self service, automation in services, Internet services
3 Distinctions between Services and Goods
4 Services Marketing Mix
5 Four Categories of Services – People-Processing, Mental-Stimulus Processing,
Possession-Processing, and Information-Processing
6-7 Customer Decision Making – Pre-purchase Stage, Service-Encounter Stage and
Post-Encounter Stage
8 Customer Expectations and Perceptions of Services – Zone of Tolerance;
9-10 Product – Core and Supplementary Elements, Branding Service Products
11-12 Price – Role of Non-monetary Costs, Pricing Strategy Pricing and Revenue
Management, Yield Management
13-14 Place – Service Distribution, Role of Customers in Service Delivery, Delivery
through Intermediaries, Franchising, Electronic Channels, Self-Service
Technologies
15-16 Promotion – Role of Marketing Communication, Marketing Communication Mix,
Integrated Services Marketing Communication
17-18 People – Employees’ Role in Service Delivery, Service Leadership and Culture,
19-20 Process – Service Blueprinting, Service Process Redesign
21-22 Physical Evidence - Servicescape, Service Environments
23-24 Understanding Capacity, Demand Patterns, Strategies for Matching Capacity
and Demands
25-28 Services Quality: Gaps Model; Measuring and Improving Service Quality
29-32 Relationship Management: Defining Customer Relationships; The Basics;
External Relationships; Supplier Relations; Internal Relationships
33-34 Customer Retention
35-36 Customer Loyalty
37-38 Strategies for reducing Customer Defections
39-40 Customer Relationship Management (CRM)