Brown et al. (2002) suggest that customer orientation, an individual‐level construct, is the key to a service organization's ability to be market oriented. Customer orientation has been defined as the degree to which contact personnel “practice the modern marketing concept by trying to help their customers make purchase decisions that will satisfy customer needs” (Saxe and Weitz, 1982). “Creating a customer experience that becomes synonymous with your brand is increasingly recognized as a vital driver of corporate performance.” (Smith and Wheeler, 2002, P.2) According to Kotler’s theory in order to indulge objectives of an organisation, the firm should research the needs and wants of consumers and then indulge these needs and wants in a better …show more content…
It is concentrated on relationship between the business and customers, but also includes its competitors and stakeholders within the business. Customer orientation involves a constant development and improvement in business process. The business is seen from the point of view of the final result, which is from the customer’s point of view. Customer orientation goes hand in hand with sales orientation as two extremes in dealing with customers. It is impossible for a salesperson to adopt both of them in serving a customer, as customer orientation requires a salesperson to behave in such way to achieve a long term customer satisfaction, possibly at the expense of immediate sales. Benefits of customer orientation can appear in a form of brand-loyalty. When a customer-orientated company is focused on wants and needs of their customers, such behaviour of the company develops customer satisfaction. Hence, the company is building long-term relationship with their customers, who therefore are willing to choose the same company’s products and services in the future. (based on Cronin and Taylor, 1994; Rust and Zahorik, …show more content…
Even though there is an existence of potential benefits of customer-orientated behaviour, there are also limitations of such phenomenon. Include Limitations. Customer orientation can be identified in one of the elements of marketing mix in Starbucks – product. The product and services Starbucks provides include real benefits for the customers. In every coffee shop of this brand, there is a variety of products such as coffee, tea, food and accessories. Customers get their unique cup of a beverage with their name on it, they also get suggested an opportunity to buy another product, as a part of a service. Baristas always ask their customers: “would you like anything else?” They are trained to say things customer want to hear, not what staff wants to say. Mission statement: “to inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup and one neighbourhood at a time. It has always been, and will always be, about
They are also about finding out where you belong and how to do that. “Remember that great vacation we had with your family”(Daywalt
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Businesses can differ greatly in the services they offer or Goods they sell. One thing that all businesses have in common is that they have a mission or vision statement that they use to define themselves and what they are about. The Arrow Head Medical Center in Colton, California has a mission statement that is not strong, is very generic, and for the reasons is probably why it is not displayed anywhere on their website. To give them a stronger identity to the community, and more tangible goal to reach for internally, it is necessary to create a new mission statement for this organization. The most recent mission statement for the Arrowhead Regional Medical Center I coul find was located on a 2012-2013 strategic plan.
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1.0. INTRODUCTION Every organization strives to benefit from creating value for its customers, in the most effective way, for the purpose of attaining competitive advantage in the business environment in which they operate. Philip Kotler(2015) defines marketing as “the science and art of exploring, creating, and delivering value to satisfy the needs of a target market at a profit”. According to Hollensen (2003), a strategy is a fundamental pattern of present and planned objectives…”
The industry size and consumers needs are impacted by social or customer related factors (Contributor, 2015). The main customer related factors affecting Starbucks and its competitors include, economic conditions and customer attitudes, specifically towards Lifestyle and Taste. One of the main demand drivers in the Industry is disposable income, which is significantly influenced by economic conditions. Positive economic conditions increase industry demand and per capita coffee consumption.
Often media points to Apple’s massive cash reserve as a key strength that the company could leverage to become even more successful (Ferrell & Hartline, 2014). If Apple asked, what should Apple do with the cash (Ferrell & Hartline, 2014)? Apple could better meet the consumer's needs and wants by strategically investing that cash for the company’s future by developing and leveraging a competitive advantage strategy (Ferrell & Hartline, 2014). A competitive advantage stems from strengths the organization possesses and weakness the competitor possesses (Ferrell & Hartline, 2014). Having a competitive advantage over their competitors can also be based on perception rather than reality (Ferrell & Hartline, 2014).
(Jacoby, 1971; Jarvis & Wilcox, 1976). Dick and Basu (1994) propose that customer will be loyalty to the brand is the result of psychological processes and has behavioral manifestations. Therefore it should incorporate both attitudinal and behavioral. Satisfaction is recognized as an important element for loyalty in both the consumers and business marketing. Satisfaction with previous purchase experiences plays an important role in determining the future purchase behaviors particularly call as an effort-minimization strategy (Jones and Suh, 2000: Pritchard et al, 1999).
Clinical Nursing I Orientation. Today since I woke up I was nervous, anxious and you could say that even scared, but as I learn from my last experience with Fundamental class this kind of emotion of being little scary is normal because nobody knows what the day can bring to us. Also I felt pride and joy because I am proud of where I’ve come so far as being an immigrant who came to this country as many others looking for their dream without knowing the language or even the culture. All my classmates and I were looking forward to meet our instructor because since we started the classes we felt somewhat lost by not having clearly defined our situation with classes and teachers.
Salespeople create value for their firms’ customers by advocating and communicating the customers’ needs, desires, concerns, and preferences back to the company and find solutions (Tanner and Raymond, 2010). Also, since the salespeople are experts in regards to their products, they can best advise the customer as to which product is the best fit for them or adapt offerings to fit. In this way, salespeople create value that would not have
2. MARKETING ENVIRONMENT that affect APPLE Co.’s service to customers. 2.1 DEMOGRAPHIC ENVIRONMENT Focusing
a. The product and production orientation of marketing asserted that a company should first develop product and then they should scan the market for sale opportunities. Now days in the modern world the market have changes. The process orientation of marketing requires a company to first to analyse the market, understand customer requirement and then develop products. In todays world, the modern marketing is based on the reverse process, in which the first the customer needs and demands are identified. The subsequent market program of the firm depends on how the market identifies the potential customer, profiles them, target them and positions his offering in the minds of customer.
To decrease the complexity of the process, Starbucks has a set of suppliers that have specific locations to deliver their coffee beans to, allowing them to control the production. This is due to their highly-centralised processes that enables Starbucks to control their global networks. Another component of their value proposition is the service. The process of their customer service follows a pattern that is common to every Starbucks Coffee Shop in the world. This process helps them deliver their value proposition through four different and simple aspects which are to create the perfect product, to deliver this product in a short period of time, the caring product delivery and finally the adoption of effective problem-resolution procedure.
They sell the finest coffee from all over the world. It also has a book corner in the left hand side of the shop where we can buy books. They make very good coffee as well. This place is an ideal place for students and employees to release stress. As I made my way through the transparent glass door, a blanket of warm air hit me and the rich aroma of coffee which was delectable.
First of all customer means A person who buys goods or services from a shop or business, loyalty means the state or quality of being loyal, faithfulness to commitments or obligations. So Customer loyalty is the key objective of customer relationship management and describes the loyalty, which is established between a customer and companies, persons, products or brands. “Customer loyalty is an essential aspect in any organization whether it is offering a good or providing a service. “Many organizations are looking for various ways to increase their customer loyalty as it has a positive effect on the profitability of the organization.” (Gremler 1996: 171, Abdullah et al. 2000: 826).The individual market segments should be targeted in terms of developing customer loyalty.