Service Recovery Strategies

Dynamic process composed of the interaction of:

Objective

Reduce customers churn rates

Recuperate consumer satisfaction

Quality improvement

Find solutions to avoid the failure in the future

Build up: long

Peak impact: high

Decay effect: long

Based on cognitive factor

Apology

Convey politness, concern and empathy

Build up: rapid

Peak impact: weak

Decay effect: rapid

Based on affective factor

Communication

Media press activites taken in order to make the customer aware of root causes and rescue processes

Build up medium

Peak impact: medium

Decay effect: medium

Based on cognitive factor

Compensation

Econonomic incentive offered to counteract the inequity caused by service failure

Build up medium

Peak impact: medium

Decay effect: medium

Based on cognitive factor

New customer expectation: fixe the problem

Clientes more dissatisfied of the recovery than the failure itself

Service failure

The best solution is not only one recovery strategies, but a adequete combination of all the recovery strategies

Speed response: the higher it is, the smaller the amount of money required