TY - GEN AU - Tyagi, Rajesh K. AU - Gupta, Praveen TI - A complete and balanced service scorecard: creating value through sustained performance improvement SN - 9788131724712 U1 - 658.4013 PY - 2008/// CY - New Delhi PB - Dorling Kindersley/Pearson Education KW - Service industries - Management KW - Performance - Measurement KW - Customer services KW - Total quality management N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-282) and index N2 - Thousands of organizations are driving value through the use of the business scorecard. Unfortunately, most business scorecards are not designed for service businesses. Now, two of the worlds leading service business performance experts show how to adapt, use, and succeed with the business scorecard in your service organization. Rajesh K. Tyagi and Praveen Gupta systematically update outdated business scorecards originally created for manufacturing firms, replacing them with new measures that fully maximize your investments in people, services, processes, and technology. Tyagi and Gupta introduce a Service Scorecard framework that encompasses seven key elements of service success: Growth, Leadership, Acceleration, Collaboration, Innovation, Execution, and Retention (GLACIER). You learn how to set clear performance targets, benchmark performance, identify improvement opportunities, and capture performance data that offer leading indicators for financial performance. This books proven performance framework is designed for sustaining profitable growth. Simply put, it offers todays most direct path to measuring performance and optimizing business value in any service business ER -