Customer satisfaction measurement simplified : a step-by-step guide for ISO 9001:2000 certification /

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Author / Creator:Vavra, Terry G.
Imprint:Milwaukee, Wis. : ASQ Quality Press, c2002.
Description:xx, 307 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 computer optical disk (4 3/4 in.)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4668849
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ISBN:0873895002 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-300) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The ISO Standards
  • The Evolution of ISO
  • Writing Conventions
  • Organization of This Book
  • Organization of the Chapters
  • My Appreciation
  • Ready, Set, Go!
  • Part I. Discovery: What Are Your Customers' Requirements?
  • Chapter 1. Understanding Customer Satisfaction Measurement and Its Role in the ANSI/ISO/ASQ Q9001-2000 Standard
  • Step-by-Step: The Issues
  • So What's the Purpose?
  • Step 1.1. Defining Customer Satisfaction
  • The Fast-Growing Ubiquity of Customer Satisfaction
  • Step 1.2. The Philosophical Reasons for Maximizing Customer Satisfaction
  • Step 1.3. The Economic Reasons for Committing to Customer Satisfaction
  • Step 1.4. The Certificatory Reasons for Measuring Customer Satisfaction
  • Step 1.5. The Required Documentation and Auditable Items
  • Step-by-Step: The Answers
  • Chapter 1 Deliverables
  • Step 1.6. An ANSI/ISO/ASQ Q9001-2000 Primer
  • Step 1.7. The Theoretical Side of Satisfaction
  • Chapter 2. Identifying Your Customers
  • The Consequences of Not Knowing Your Customers
  • Step-by-Step: The Issues
  • Step 2.1. Recognize the Different Types of Customers You May Have
  • Step 2.2. Locate Sources for Your Customers' Names
  • Step 2.3. With the Understanding That You Have Multiple Customers, Which Ones Will You Survey?
  • Step 2.4. What Database Software Will You Use?
  • Step 2.5. What You Need to Know about Your Customers
  • Step 2.6. Store Your Customers' Identities and Contact Information in the Database
  • Step 2.7. Decide Whether You Will Interview a Sample of Your Customers or Conduct a Census
  • Step 2.8. Determine the Appropriate Sampling Method (If You'll Be Sampling)
  • Step 2.9. Determine How Many Customers Should Be in Your Sample
  • Step 2.10. Practical Methods for Drawing Your Sample
  • Step 2.11. Anticipating and Accommodating Your Customers' Response Rate
  • A Closing Observation
  • Step-by-Step: The Answers
  • Chapter 2 Deliverables
  • Toolkit
  • Chapter 3. Identifying Customer Requirements
  • For an Understanding of Customer Needs, Ask Customers
  • Step-by-Step: The Issues
  • Step 3.1. Understand Requirements
  • Step 3.2. Generate Issues
  • Step 3.3. Confirm and Classify Your Issues
  • Step 3.4. Select Your Core Issues
  • Step 3.5. Commit to Ongoing Monitoring
  • Step-by-Step: The Answers
  • Chapter 3 Deliverables
  • Toolkit
  • Part II. Design and Deployment: How Should You Measure Your Customers' Satisfaction?
  • Chapter 4. Deciding When, What, and How to Measure
  • A Basic Research Primer
  • Form and Process Are Everything
  • Step-by-Step: The Issues
  • Step 4.1. Specify a Measurement Objective and Identify the Performance Criteria You'll Use
  • Step 4.2. Prioritize the Many Issues You've Identified for Administration in Your Questionnaire
  • Step 4.3. When and How Frequently Should You Interview Your Customers?
  • Step 4.4. How Will You Distribute Your Questionnaire (and How Will Responses Be Returned to You)?
  • Step 4.5. Position Your Survey to Maximize Cooperation and Response Rates
  • Step 4.6. Create Your Reporting Process
  • Step 4.7. Determine Whether You'll Institute a Response Process to Solve Troubled Customers' Problems
  • Step 4.8. Identify How (and Where) You'll Enter Your Data for Analysis
  • Step 4.9. Determine How You Will Conduct Your Program
  • Step-by-Step: The Answers
  • Chapter 4 Deliverables
  • Chapter 5. Measuring Satisfaction
  • Using This Chapter
  • The Basic Questionnaire: Critical Components of a Customer Satisfaction Questionnaire
  • Sample Questionnaires
  • Step-by-Step: The Issues
  • Learning More about Asking Questions
  • Step 5.1. The Two Levels of Questionnaire Building
  • Macro-Level Issues
  • Step 5.2. Decide on a Questionnaire Structure and Its Contents
  • Step 5.3. Routing--Establish Branching and Skip Patterns
  • Step 5.4. Questionnaire Instructions
  • Micro-Level Issues
  • Step 5.5. What Kind of Information Are You Collecting?
  • Step 5.6. Select a Question Type
  • Step 5.7. Response Mechanisms
  • Step 5.8. Assign Response Codes
  • Step 5.9. Pretest Your Questionnaire
  • Step-by-Step: The Answers
  • Chapter 5 Deliverables
  • Part III. Deduction: How Will You Analyze the Information You Collect?
  • Chapter 6. Analyzing Your Data
  • A Likely Sequence
  • Step-by-Step: The Issues
  • Step 6.1. Types of Analyses for Numerical Data
  • Step 6.2. Descriptive Statistics: Summarizing Your Results
  • Step 6.3. Analytical Strategies to Help Interpret Your Results
  • Reporting Your Organization's Performance
  • Step 6.4. The Internal Analysis Perspective
  • Step 6.5. The External Analysis Perspective
  • Step 6.6. Test the Significance of Change Scores, Goal Gaps, and Competitive Gaps
  • Step 6.7. Composite Satisfaction Scores
  • Correlation Analysis
  • Introduction to Cross-Tabs
  • Advanced Numerical Data Analysis
  • Step 6.8. Types of Analyses for Verbal Data
  • Step-by-Step: The Answers
  • Chapter 6 Deliverables
  • Toolkit: Creating a Cross-Tabulation of Your Results
  • Part IV. Discourse: How Will You Report Your Findings?
  • Chapter 7. Reporting Your Results
  • Step-By-Step: The Issues
  • Step 7.1. Basics of Written Reports
  • Step 7.2. Basics of Visual Reports
  • Determining Importance
  • Step 7.3. Implicit Methods of Key Driver Determination
  • Step 7.4. Explicit Methods of Key Driver Determination
  • Step 7.5. Techniques for Graphing Your Results
  • Step 7.6. Graph Your Internal Analyses
  • Step 7.7. Graph Your External Analyses
  • Step 7.8. A Help to Prioritize Improvement: The Quadrant Chart
  • Step-by-Step: The Answers
  • Chapter 7 Deliverables
  • Part V. Development: How Will You Stimulate Continual Improvement?
  • Chapter 8. Closing the Loop: Communicating Your Results
  • Step-By-Step: The Issues
  • Step 8.1. Own and Disseminate Your Information
  • Step 8.2. Build Respect and Trust for CSM Information
  • Your Three Audiences
  • Step 8.3. Reports to Management and Employees
  • Step 8.4. Reports to Customers
  • Step 8.5. Organize for Improvement
  • Step 8.6. Interpreting Customers' Evaluations ... a Warning
  • Step 8.7. Quality Function Deployment Grid
  • Step-by-Step: The Answers
  • Chapter 8 Deliverables
  • Appendix A. Worksheets
  • Appendix B. Questionnaires
  • Appendix C. Recommended Resources
  • Works Cited
  • Index