Paper length: 6-8 (approx) double-spaced pages
Presentation: TBA
Format: Select a service-based company to research (most likely a public one for ease of research).
- Basic company overview (half a page, main locations, employee #’s, net sales, etc.)
- What “market” are they competing?
- Who are their main competitors (think inside and outside the box/marketing myopia)?
- Who are their main customers (B2B, retail consumers, end-users, etc.)?
- Describe their main customers? Describe their competitor’s customer (if different).
- Describe their primary employees (or at least the ones that typically interact w/ customers).
- What services do they provide? What is the overall service experience (be descriptive)?
- Is their service standard explicit or implicit?
- Illustrate somehow/draw/show the service MAP (like the hotel or dry cleaner in book), don’t freak out, even arrows with words will suffice.
- Where are there gaps (if any and most likely there are)?
- How do they promote their company? Is it integrated (is it consistent across the board)?
- Do they overpromise/underpromise?
- How do the consumers/customers interact with the service experience?
- How might the service expectations change in the coming years?
- How can their business/company evolve to meet the expectation changes on the horizon?
- Is this service experience a marketing differentiation and if so, is it sustainable? Why?
- Anything we’ve covered in class/textbook that you’ve discovered via your research that the class and I will find interesting.
