• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.42-53
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• 2009

There has been increased interest in revealing how well-being and selection attribute affect customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. Recently, there are growing needs to pursue health and better life, and this study has proposed to explore the relations between well-being and selection attribute and customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. The results are as follows. First, well-being significantly affected customer satisfaction and customer loyalty, showing that well-being was an important variable for improving customer satisfaction and loyalty for Korean traditional pastry. Second, selection attribute had significant influence on customer satisfaction, but not customer loyalty, which are supposed to confuse the minds of customers who select traditional pastry. In this respect, it is concluded that customer satisfaction and loyalty were made according to the customer needs to be more healthier and pursue better life based on the colors and tastes of Korean traditional pastry.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.77-93
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• 2015

As the range of the customer choice becomes more diverse, the average life span of companies' products and services is becoming shorter. Most companies are striving to maximize the revenue by understanding the customer's needs and providing customized products and services. However, companies had to bear a significant burden, in terms of the time and cost involved in the process of determining each individual customer's needs. Therefore, an alternative method is employed that involves grouping the customers into different categories based on certain criteria and establishing a marketing strategy tailored for each group. In this way, customer segmentation and customer clustering are performed using demographic information and behavioral information. Demographic information included sex, age, income level, and etc., while behavioral information was usually identified indirectly through customers' purchase history and search history. However, there is a limitation regarding companies' customer behavioral information, because the information is usually obtained through the limited data provided by a customer on a company's website. This is because the pattern indicated when a customer accesses a particular site might not be representative of the general tendency of that customer. Therefore, in this study, rather than the pattern indicated through a particular site, a customer's interest is identified using that customer's access record pertaining to external news. Hence, by utilizing this method, we proposed a methodology to perform customer segmentation. In addition, by extracting the main issues through a topic analysis covering approximately 3,000 Internet news articles, the actual experiment applying customer segmentation is performed and the applicability of the proposed methodology is analyzed.

• The Korean Journal of Franchise Management
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.17-29
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• 2018

Purpose - The environment surrounding the franchise industry in recent years is a big threat to the franchise business. In this perspective, this study examines the effect of franchise CEO's Innovation, CSR Passion, and customer orientation(CO) on customers' perceived service quality(PSQ), affection, and commitments in the context of food-service franchise industry. This study suggests the guidelines on how franchisor uses their passion and customer orientation on customer to maintain and increase the commitments. Research design, data, and methodology - In order to achieve these purposes, research model and hypotheses were developed. Out of 500 respondents received through online survey, 449 respondents were used, because of 51 incomplete respondents. The data were analyzed using frequency analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis, and structural equational modeling with SPSS 23.0 and AMOS 23.0 statistical program. Result - The results of the study are as follows. First, innovation passion has a significant impact on PSQ and customer affection. And CSR passion have a significant impact on PSQ. Second, customer orientation has a significant impact on PSQ and customer affection. Third, PSQ has a significant impact on customer affection and sustainable commitment. Fourth, customer affection has a significant impact on behavioral commitment. Fifth, behavioral commitment has a significant impacts on sustainable commitment. Conclusions - The implications of this study are following as: Restaurants franchisor and CEOs should have a passion for innovation to continuously identify consumer needs and develop new menus and services that meet their needs. Second, franchisor and CEOs need to demonstrate the importance of creating the right environment, creating a fair business, and trying to create products in a given environment. Finally, franchisor and CEOs should demonstrate how to build relationships with customers and how to maintain positive feelings. In addition, it is necessary to appeal to the customers with enthusiasm and a customer-oriented tendency of the entrepreneur of the franchise head office in order to maintain the relationship with the customer and feelings.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.171-174
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• 2001

This study investigates the differences in critical dimensions which impact on operations and strategy in Internet EC of service related intangible product. For this purpose, services are newly classified by two selected dimensions such as 1)the proportion of substitute by on-line, and 2)the needs of interaction and customization. Secondly, on the classification of services, the differences of 1) customer needs of geographical accessibility, 2) needs of cooperation with off-line functions, and 3) customer purchase intention in Internet EC are tested among classified groups. Finally, implementations on operations and strategy in Internet EC are suggested, based on the results of analysis. Data are collected by the survey on the customer groups, and analyzed by statistical method, such as mean score plot, cluster analysis, and analysis of variance.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.105-114
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• 2009

A design needs various experience and design knowledge through a whole design process. Despite of all efforts and time, it is not easy to introduce a product that meets all customer's needs and expectation in time. To achieve the product goal, designers need a set of sequential process to find appropriate design parameters and ensure customers' needs and requirements. In this research we propose a design methodology for the initial design of an excavator front group with existing QFD(Quality Function Deployment) and Axiomatic Design to satisfy customer's requirements. It turns out that the proposed methodology can support designers more effectively, objectively, and systematically.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.58-63
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• 2009

The objective of this study is to analyze customer needs for the configuration of an aircraft cockpit layout of a single piston propeller aircraft. From the result of survey, we figure out the demand of the potential customers. We consider control stick and instrument out of several items to determine which pay for the aircraft or not. We analyze types and features of the aircraft control stick and the instrument which are equipped in the same aircraft in order to figure out what is best needed through a market survey and a questionnaire survey.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.207-216
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• 2000

This paper introduces an effective system design method to develop a customer oriented product using a design optimization process and to select a set of critical design paramenters,. The process results in the development of a successful product satisfying customer needs and reducing development risk. The proposed scheme adopted a five step QFD(Quality Function Deployment) in order to extract design parameters from customer needs and evaluated their priority using risk factors for extracted design parameters. In this process we determine critical design parameters and allocate them to subsystem designers. Subsequently design engineers develop and test the product based on these parameters. These design parameters capture the characteristics of customer needs in terms of performance cost and schedule in the process of QFD, The subsequent risk management task ensures the minimum risk approach in the presence of design parameter uncertainty. An application of this approach was demonstrated in the development of weld quality monitoring system. Dominant design parameters affect linearity characteristics of weld defect feature vectors. Therefore it simplifies the algorithm for adopting pattern classification of feature vectors and improves the accuracy of recognition rate of weld defect and the real time response of the defect detection in the performance. Additionally the development cost decreases by using DSP board for low speed because of reducing CPU's load adopting algorithm in classifying weld defects. It also reduces the cost by using the single sensor to measure weld defects. Furthermore the synergy effect derived from the critical design parameters improves the detection rate of weld defects by 15% when compared with the implementation using the non-critical design parameters. It also result in 30% saving in development cost./ The overall results are close to 95% customer level showing the effectiveness of the proposed development approach.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.20 no.9
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• pp.109-118
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• 2022

The purpose of this study was to verify influences of growth needs of staff at the welfare center for people with disabilities on customer orientation and mediation effect of participative decision-making on this relationship. For this purpose, we conducted a survey of 900 staff at welfare centers for people with disabilities nationwide, and 847 data were finally analysed. In order to verify mediation effect of participative decision-making, the hierarchical regression model proposed by Baron and Kenny was conducted. The main results were as follows. First, growth needs influenced positively on customer orientation. Second, participative decision-making mediated this relationship. Based on findings, this study suggested alternatives in terms of individual and organizational aspects to improve customer orientation of them.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.155-164
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• 2009

Recently there has been many researches of performing arts, the concepts of performance products or mechanism have been gradually established. However, compared to the research of public performance itself, the research of its consumer still stays on the basic stage and it is difficult to apply to the business. Therefore the needs of the related research has continued being insisted among the staffs. This study raises points that the recent performance business still focuses on providers. Moreover it notices the urgent needs of the consumer orientation strategies and the changes of marketing in the performance business. Therefore it needs to understand the performance consumers and to research how they can be satisfied with the performance according to their types. This dissertation, thus, is to find out the evaluation method of theatre service qualities and the relations between the theatre service qualities by size and customer satisfactions to suit for the customer oriented marketing paradigm, and to present a suggestion that requires for establishment of service marketing strategies for theatre, the place for performing arts.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.17-29
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• 2014

This study attempted to explore business and workers'needs for flexible work arrangements focusing on the case of a customer center business. We conducted in-depth interview and focus group interviews with the CEO of the company as well as with workers employed at the company in order to identify their need for flexible work arrangements. The subject of this study is a customer service center business that offers a variety of flexible work arrangements. We found that there is a need for flexible work arrangements in terms of both businesses and workers. These results suggest that flexible work arrangements can be activated when they meet the needs of businesses and workers. Flexible work arrangements can be activated when they meet the businesses'goals in human resource management and workers'goals for achieving work-family balance.