front 1 Customer Gap | back 1 the difference between customer expectations and perceptions. |
front 2 Customer Expectations | back 2 beliefs about service delivery that serve as standards or reference points against which performance is judged |
front 3 Customer Perceptions | back 3 how they assess whether they have experienced quality service and whether they are satisfied. |
front 4 Provider Gap 1: the listening gap | back 4 the difference between customer expectations of service and the company's understanding those expectations. |
front 5 Provider Gap 1: causes | back 5 lack of understanding of expectations, inadequate customer research orientation, lack of upward communication, and lack of service recovery. |
front 6 Closing Provider Gap 1 | back 6 research strategies, build relationships, and recover strategies. |
front 7 Provider Gap 2: the service design and standards gap | back 7 the difference between company understanding of customer expectations and the development of customer driven standards. |
front 8 Provider Gap 2: causes | back 8 intangible, poor service design, absence of customer driven standards, and inappropriate physical evidence and servicescape. |
front 9 Closing Provider Gap 2 | back 9 customer-defined service standards |
front 10 Provider Gap 3: the service performance gap | back 10 the discrepancy between the development of customer-driven service standards and actual service performance by company employees. |
front 11 Provider Gap 3: causes | back 11 deficiencies in human resource policies, failure to match supply and demand, customers not fulfilling roles, and problems with service intermediaries. |
front 12 Closing Provider Gap 3 | back 12 ensuring that all the resources needed to achieve the standards are in place |
front 13 Provider Gap 4: the communication gap | back 13 illustrates the difference between service delivery and the service provider's external communication. |
front 14 Provider Gap 4: causes | back 14 lack of integrated services marketing communication, ineffective management of customer expectations, over-promising, inadequate horizontal communications, and inappropriate pricing. |
front 15 Closing Provider Gap 4 | back 15 effectively coordinating actual service delivery with external communications. |