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Presented by-
Saurav Pattanaik
Ruchira Panigrahy
Vishal Panda
To evaluate the effectiveness of Accellion
Evaluate the degree of culture
service guarantee in communicating
creation for service excellence within
service excellence to current& potential
customers
the company
Objectives
About the Company
Founded in 1999, Accellion is a privately held company headquartered in Palo Alto, California with offices in North
America, Asia and Europe.
Accellion, Inc provides enterprise-class secure collaboration and managed file transfer solutions that provide the
ease-of-use employees need, while giving the enterprise organization the security protection it needs.
More than 1,200 enterprise organizations, representing seven million business users worldwide rely on Accellion
solutions to help keep their enterprise information secure and ensure compliance
Company: Company:
• Focus on consumer expectations
• Set clear performance standards for employees • High Cost- Training, Research, Maintenance
• Increase service quality and service perception • Over promising problems
• Increase reputation • Bad impression in case of any security glitch
• Attract new customers and increase market share • Bad impression in case of equipment breakdown or power
• Identify, understand, and eliminate and/or reduce potential fail system failure
points in the service operation. • Negative impact in case of inexperienced or rude employees
• Actively seek customer feedback in order to identify fail points
and/or improve service performance
Employees Employees:
• Increased workload
• Clear and defined guidelines for employees • Increased training costs
• Increased pressure
Customers Customers:
• Reduces the risk consumers perceive when deciding on the
purchase of a service. • High price
• Commitment to service quality • Deterioration in operations decreases brand loyalty of its
• Improvement in operations increases brand loyalty of its customers
customers • Deterioration in operations decreases positive word-of-mouth
• Improvement in operations increases positive word-of-mouth by its by its customers.
customers.
Question 2 :
Evaluate the design of Accellion’s guarantee.
How effective will it be in communicating service excellence to potential and current customers?
Would you recommend any changes to its design or implementation?
design of Accellion’s guarantee
Design Recommendations:
Increase policy transparency by generating regular reports
Should be careful while using words (99.9% instead of 100%)
Add disclaimers wherever needed
Should make use of competitive advantage
Implementation Recommendations:
Employee more staff & ensure efficiency from the employees
Regular training of employees to keep them up-to-date and motivated
Continuous improvements by keeping track of customer expectations through
surveys and feedbacks.
Question 3 :
Will the guarantee be successful in creating a culture for service excellence within accellion?
What else may be needed for achieving such a culture?
culture creation for service excellence
1. Vision & Mission Statement
2. Business Objectives
Principles of 3. Service Standards
Service Excellence 4. Intervention & Learning Strategy
5. Organizational Alignment
6. Measurement & Leadership Accountability
Attributes of • Performance Guarantee
Service Guarantee • Availability Guarantee
providing Service • Customer Service Guarantee
Excellence • Security and Privacy Policy
• Communication
• Misalignment
Potential • Teamwork/Engagement
Challenges • Conflicting Priorities
• System/Processes
• Service Recovery/ Problem Resolution
• Accountability
Question 4:
Do you think customers might take advantage of this guarantee and ‘stage’ service failures to invoke the guarantee?
If yes, how could accellion minimize potential cheating on its guarantee?
potential cheating on service guarantee