2009

Bridging the 'Front Stage' and 'Back Stage' in Service System Design

Robert J. Glushko, Lindsay Tabas, "Bridging the 'Front Stage' and 'Back Stage' in Service System Design," hicss, pp.106, Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2008), 2008

Abstract

Service management and design has thus far primarily focused on the interactions between employees and customers. This perspective holds that the quality of the "service experience" is determined by the customer during this final "service encounter" that takes place in the "front stage." This emphasis discounts the contribution of the activities in the "back stage" of the service value chain where materials or information needed by the front stage are processed.

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