Graham Clarkis Senior Lecturer in Operations Management at Cranfield School of Management and Director of the Executive MBA Programme. 

Michael Shulver is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Operations Management Group at Warwick Business School where he is the Academic Director of the School’s BSc in Management.

1 Introducing Service Operations Management

2 Understanding the Challenges for Operations Managers

Part 2: FRAME

3 Developing and Using the Service Concept

Part 3: CONNECT

4 Understanding Customers and Relationships

5 Managing Customer Expectations and Perceptions

6 Managing Supply Networks and Supplier Relationships

Part 4: DELIVER

7 Designing the Customer Experience

8 Designing the Service Process

9 Measuring, Controlling and Managing

10 Managing People

11 Managing Service Resources

Part 5: IMPROVE

12 Driving Continuous Improvement

13 Learning from Problems

14 Learning from Other Operations

Part 6: IMPLEMENT

15 Creating and Implementing the Strategy

16 Understanding and Influencing Culture

17 Building a World-class Service Organisation

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