Service Quality Optimization Essentials

• Describe the quality, quality control, causes of variation and stages of quality.
• Discuss the elements, benefits and requirements of Just in Time
• Examine the steps, principles, and case studies of Total Quality Management.
• Diagnose the dimensions, gaps and functioning of Serviqual
• Identify the different types, advantages, disadvantages, and practical application of service quality design.
• Describe the characteristics, principles and tools for service quality guarantee and improvements.
• Compare the concepts of lean and six sigma, its principles, and applications.
• Classify different Strategic location considerations and their uses in improving quality.
• Explain the concept of Geographical Information System (GIS) and their uses in location considerations.
• Identify the Strategies, Techniques, and principles behind strategic Location selection.
• Examine the practical approach used in quality improvement with the help of multiple case studies.

• Interpret the stages of quality involving quality control to manage variation and ensure high quality.
• Diagnose the lean manufacturing approach, benefits and requirements of Just In Time.
• Review the implementation of principles and systematic steps while incorporating organization’s operations using Total Quality Management
• Examine the complex model that encompasses various dimensions, addresses gaps in service quality by evaluating customer perceptions and expectations using Serviqual.
• Interpret the practical applications of service quality design, its types, advantages and disadvantages.
• Review the specific principles, employing appropriate tools, and implementing effective strategies for guaranteeing customer satisfaction and continuous improvement.
• Review the intricate fusion of lean principles and the systematic approach of Six Sigma in a powerful methodology for improving processes and achieving operational excellence.
• Paraphrase various factors related to strategic location positioning and their applications in enhancing quality.
• Interpret the notion of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and their applications in assessing location factors.
• Interpret the intricate and multi-faceted principles, techniques, and strategies involved in strategic location selection.
• Assess the realistic method employed in enhancing quality through the utilization of various case studies.

The academic approach of the course focuses on ‘work-centric’ education. With this hands-on approach, derive knowledge from and while working to make it more wholesome, delightful and useful. The ultimate objective is to empower learners to also engage in socially useful and productive work. It aims at bringing learners closer to their rewarding careers as well as to the development of the community.

• Step 1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work
• Step 2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Step 3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Step 4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
• Step 5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
• Step 6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
• Step 7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Step 8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• Step 9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Step 10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
• Step 11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
• Step 12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!