You Can't Afford to Please Everyone

While giving customers what they want - and as rapidly as possible - may be a worthy goal for service organizations, Amy R. Ward at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business notes that businesses can't always afford to do this. Her research uses probability to understand how bes...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Klotz, Frieda
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: MIT Sloan Management Review 2019
Edition:1st edition
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:While giving customers what they want - and as rapidly as possible - may be a worthy goal for service organizations, Amy R. Ward at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business notes that businesses can't always afford to do this. Her research uses probability to understand how best to align resources with customer demand and improve operational efficiency on a day-to-day basis
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Physical Description:5 pages