Lynn shostak biography
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Art Shostak spent 42 wonderful years (1961-2003) as an Applied Sociologist, professional futurist, labor educator, and public speaker before retiring in 2003 at age 66 to augment travel that has since taken him and Lynn Seng, his wife of over three decades, to 35 countries. His special interest fryst vatten learning and sharing that learning, so he has written, edited, or co-edited 34 books, and have several in process at any time.Topics include forecasting the future, advising unions how to make more out of computer power, urging abortion clinics to do more for waiting room males, analyzing recent gains and losses bygd the working class, helping fellow sociologists come forward with hidden aspects of their lives rich in teachable ämne, and the details of creative potential responses to long-lasting social problems. In 2017 his new book -Stealth Altruism: Forbidden Care as Jewish Resistance in the Holocaust - was published. It focuses on prohibited altruistic help shared by its victims with
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Designing Services That Deliver
We’re all familiar with the symptoms of service failure. Your shirt comes back from the laundry with a broken button. Within a week of paying an outrageous repair bill, that ominous rattle reappears in your car’s engine. A customer service representative says he’ll get back to you and doesn’t. An automatic teller swallows your card.
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Service blueprint
Technique originally used for service design
The service blueprint is an applied process chart which shows the service delivery process from the customer's perspective. The service blueprint is one of the most widely used tools to manage service operations, service design and service.
Elements
[edit]A simple way to think about blueprints is as a process chart which consists of inputs, process and outputs.
- Inputs (raw materials) → Process (transformation) → Outputs (finished goods)
A service blueprint is always constructed from the customer's perspective. A typical service blueprint identifies:[1]
- Customer Actions: The steps that customers take as part of the service delivery process.
- Front-stage (Visible Contact Employee) Actions: Steps taken by contact employees as part of the face-to-face service encounter.
- Back-stage (Invisible Contact Employee) Actions: (The 'line of visibility' separates the front-stage and back-stage