Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences

International Program
in Service Management

Module I: Fundamentals of service management

Its objective is to understand the main characteristics of service management.

  • Nature of the services and their importance.
  • Qualities of services and management methods.
  • Value proposition methods for services.
  • Effectiveness in the administration of services.
  • Tools for understanding customer needs
Module II: Services Marketing

Its objective is to understand how to prepare a business plan focused on services.

  • The general process of doing marketing.
  • Segmentation and target market selection.
  • Positioning and development of value proposition.
  • Placement of the commercial offer: Go-to-market.
  • Business planning for service companies.
Module III: Customer Experience

This module will allow students to understand that customer experience translates into the integrated experience of sensations, judgments, and emotions in relation to a product or service and relates them to the organization, through three components: Functional, Operational, and Emotional, determining whether a requested service is: effective, easy, and satisfactory.

  • Customer Experience Management: Context of the experience and customer focus; key steps for implementing a customer listening system. Expectation vs. Experience. Customer experience factors.
  • Customer focus: Customer-centric model, customer-centric management environment, customer differentiation. Customer interaction.
  • Purchase decision journey and moments of truth.
  • Tools workshop: Customer Journey Map.
  • Omniquality in experiences.
Module IV: Service Design Thinking in Service Design

Its purpose is to teach the Design Thinking methodology and develop the skills that allow participants to design customer/user-centric service experiences and take this collaborative framework as a basis for innovation and/or continuous improvement of service systems over time.

  • Identify: Why, how, and in what do organizations innovate?
  • Understand what Design Thinking is, why it is important, what the stages are and how it is implemented (empathize, ideate, implement).
  • Develop skills that benefit the creation of user/customer-centric services.
  • To know and apply innovation tools for framing a problem, from the point of view of the client or user.
  • To learn and apply innovation tools to creatively explore solution ideas.
  • To know and apply innovation tools to test and validate a solution.
Module V: Human Talent Management and Service Culture

This module will allow you to analyze human resources practices and policies and their consistency with the service model; as well as recognize the elements of a service culture and the steps to implement it, valuing the worker experience as a key element within the process of generating a customer-oriented culture.

  • Service culture: components and stages.
  • Building a culture from within the organization.
  • Service experience and work experience.
  • Service management and the people management cycle: attract, align, engage, develop, separate. Competency management.
  • Frontline leaders and people management.
Module VI: Indicators and Metrics

The objective of this module is to understand and apply metrics to control service experience management and seek continuous improvement.

  • Customer management control models: identification, differentiation, interaction, and personalization.
  • Design of visualization tools for indicators and control panels.
  • Customer lifetime value as a basis for the organization's intangible capital turnover.
  • Key management indicators: NPS, satisfaction, capture rate vs lifetime value, adherence and retention.
  • Workshop.