

Survey software can be key to assisting management with this crucial task. Routine transactional surveys after delivering the customer experience are important for an organization to measure customer perceptions of service.Įach gap in the customer experience can be closed through diligent attention from management. The 22 items are the indicators of the five dimensions of service quality, that is, tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy.

Finally, Gap 5 is the gap between a customer's perception of the experience and the customer's expectation of the service - Customers' expectations have been shaped by word of mouth, their personal needs and their own past experiences.Gap 4 is the gap between the delivery of the customer experience and what is communicated to customers - All too often organizations exaggerate what will be provided to customers, or discuss the best case rather than the likely case, raising customer expectations and harming customer perceptions.Gap 3 is from the experience specification to the delivery of the experience - Managers need to audit the customer experience that their organization currently delivers in order to make sure it lives up to the spec.Gap 2 is between management perception and the actual specification of the customer experience - Managers need to make sure the organization is defining the level of service they believe is needed.Gap 1 is the distance between what customers expect and what managers think they expect - Clearly survey research is a key way to narrow this gap.The video explain the four marketer gaps that fuel the one. The five gaps that organizations should measure, manage and minimize: The video explains the GAP model of services quality, which is a concept from Services Marketing.
