This makes the emergency call unlike any other kind of service encounter.

Most of the interactions a company has with its customers are service encounters.

Employees were instructed to put a smile on their face during the service encounter.

Each service encounter was treated as an isolated event.

The service encounter is defined as all activities involved in the service delivery process.

Comparison of alternative sources of data on health service encounters.

Employees were empowered to customize the service encounter to the individual characteristics of customers.

Queuing several times, lack of one-stop, poor ergonomics in the service encounter.

Service Design is a human-centred approach that focuses on customer experience and the quality of service encounter as the key value for success.

Likewise, a customer can be dissatisfied with the service encounter and still perceive the overall quality to be good.

Successful deployment of electronic health records is dependent upon the ability to assemble standard service encounter information from many disparate clinical systems.

July 1996 Performance and the service encounter; an exploration of narrative expectations and relationship management in the outdoor leisure market.

Traditional customer satisfaction surveys look at the customer perception of the service encounter in absolute terms.

Misinformation effect on memories of service encounters.

It reflects at each service encounter.

He felt that service encounters could be systematized through planning, optimal processes, consistency, and capital intensive investments.

Within the CF, there is an absence of longitudinal data and an inability to link multiple service encounters.

Some service managers use the term "moment of truth" to indicate that defining point in a specific service encounter where interactions are most intense.

(Nevertheless, flexibility and adaptation to clients' special needs are still important to the way in which the "service encounter" takes place.)

This same cycle may be applied at different levels of the health system, i.e., provincial/territorial, regional, organizational, program or service encounter levels.

The challenge is located in the service encounter (between the service agent and the customer) and, especially, the behavioural aspects of the human roles.

The client's reaction to service encounters or experience with the service deliverer must be monitored to maintain acceptable service levels.

Design tools include service scenarios (which describe the interaction) and use cases (which illustrate the detail of time sequences in a service encounter).

Thus, a health state differs from pathology, risk factors or etiology, and from health service encounters or interventions.

Heterogeneity: Service encounters are unique and customer needs vary, therefore software services are difficult to standardize and productize.