Tag: risk management

Service In a Time of Rapid Change: Another Cost, or Competitive Advantage?

– Written by Elizabeth Farquhar for the Center for Services Leadership When he talks to business leaders about risk management, Atul Vashistha says, too often he sees their eyes glaze. “There’s another expense I have to add to operations,” they think. Twenty years ago, companies could get away with this vision of risk management as …

Managing the Customer Portfolio to Improve Service and Financial Performance

By Beth Walker and Crina Tarasi Few firms consider “whether all of their individually desirable customers are, from the standpoint of risk, desirable collectively” (Dhar and Glazer 2003). Dr. Beth Walker, Arizona State University, and Dr. Crina Tarasi, Central Michigan University, present the findings of two papers that highlight the importance of considering the likely …