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Customer value is an overused and mis-understood term.

This book considers the opportunities and challenges of harnessing digital technologies for improved public services and governance.

This book explores the basic tenets of service excellence, opening to distinguish customer service from service excellence, and explore the driving aspects of strategy and philosophy.

Modern cities are increasingly involving citizens in decisions that affect them.

There have been a number of professional and academic studies, in multiple industries, linking employee attitudes and behaviors with the value customers perceive in their experiences.

Innovation can be a challenging subject.

The tourism industry continues to evolve as people's interests have changed.

Marketing a small, independently owned lodging business can be difficult.

Given the rapid technological, organizational, and structural changes that challenge conventional institutions and economies, what is the future of work?

The focus of this book is on providing clear word descriptions and step-by-step Excel instructions, rather than including lots of x's and y's everywhere.

Businesses recognize the need to become more customer focused, but struggle to see how.

Every one of us produce and/or use services on a daily basis.

This book begins an adventure wherein the author outlines for us the particular shape our minds impose on that journey; he takes as his analytic, the human sensorium: the panoply of sensory channels (sight, hearing, touch, etc.

This book takes the position that organizations, such as businesses and government agencies, form a special class of living system.

In this book the authors explore the influence of gender on organizational performance in the health care sector.

The Good Company tells the stories of over 30 inspiring companies around the world that are among the ethical leaders in the industry.

The role of the catering and convention service manager (CCSM) is diverse and must juggle event components.

This book is a sequel to Business Engineering and Service Design, published by this editorial, which provides the foundations of Business Engineering; it is dedicated to health care, presenting our view of the foundations for the design of institutions that provide such service, general architectures for making designs operative, and many real cases that show how to do formal design and the benefits to be obtained.

This book investigates the genesis and success of innovation in the hospitality industry as detailed in over four dozen case studies.

This book invites the reader on a journey of discovery of service systems.

This book provides the foundations of BE, reviews the disciplines integrated within its methodology, and presents plentiful evidence of its power by giving detailed application cases, including impressive results in private and public situations.

All the world's most advanced economies are dominated by service.

The 2nd Edition of Fabulous Fit combines a user-friendly approach to the fitting process with a dynamic visual presentation of technical procedures.

Targeting the global business practitioner, this book bridges the gap between buttoned-up culture textbooks and flippant how-to guides about global business and communication.

This edition of The Fairchild Dictionary of Retailing clearly defines terms commonly used in all parts of the retail industry, from retail advertising to merchandising and displays.

What is retailing today?

This student lab manual reinforces the chapter content and lecture material from Apparel Quality, but may also be used as a standalone product in conjunction with another apparel quality textbook.

A Practical Approach to Merchandising Mathematics, Revised 1st Edition, is dedicated to helping students master the mathematical concepts, techniques, and analysis utilized in the merchandise buying and planning process.

In today's global apparel industry, garments that are designed domestically are often manufactured overseas.

A Practical Approach to Merchandising Mathematics, Revised 1st Edition, is dedicated to helping students master the mathematical concepts, techniques, and analysis utilized in the merchandise buying and planning process.

This study guide is a tool to help students get the most out of Survey of Historic Costume, 6th Edition.

Writing for the Fashion Business is an exciting and engaging textbook that presents effective writing techniques geared specifically for the fashion industry.

Prior to the 1970s and 1980s, fashion marketing focused heavily (and perhaps solely) on women's fashions.

Perry's Department Store: A Buying Simulation, 4th Edition, launches students into the exciting role of being a retail buyer in the fashion industry using a unique simulation approach that takes readers step-by-step through a real-life buying experience.

At the centre of the elephant tourism industry lie two profound challenges: the delicate balance between income and compassion, and the severe threats to the survival of all remaining elephant species.

This book develops "e;organizing eating"e; as an organizational-communication centered framework for understanding how communication and power combine to actively shape eating and working in the U.

The Monopolists reveals the unknown story of how Monopoly came into existence, the reinvention of its history by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one man's lifelong obsession to tell the true story about the game's questionable origins.

Weddings are big business.

Gathering people together for a special event is always a challenge.

This totally revised book will separate the romantic notions of owning a B&B from the business end by covering basic cost control systems, successful kitchen management, housekeeping, beverage management, room rate formulas, arrival, billing, departure, managing and training employees and more.

Packed with new information, the revised edition of this best selling manual was designed for use by all food service serving staff members.

There have been a number of professional and academic studies, in multiple industries, linking employee attitudes and behaviors with the value customers perceive in their experiences.

This book offers a philosophical approach to tourism as a permanent factor in the lifestyle, economy, and culture of the contemporary global community.

Stage Money is a groundbreaking guide to understanding professional theater finances today through the use of the tools and metaphors of the business world at large.

The Professional Bartenders Handbook is written for the professional bartender, but anyone can learn the simple tips and tricks this book provides.

Nowadays, the latest technologies can be found not only in healthcare and space application but also in hybrid supercars.

Retail Advertising and Promotion explores how today's retailers can effectively reach their existing customers while also attracting and retaining new ones.