Executive Summary
At the time where competition became a reality for banks, Jyske Bank decided to make a major personality transformation from a traditional bank to a unique and different one. The new concept emerged from the values of society and the changing economy, and its main goal was to make banking more fun and less pretentious. This report will discuss the case study of “People, Service & Profit at JYSKE Bank” and will provide a detailed analysis of their marketing mix and how they modernized the 7 P’s to suit the changing customer needs. Situation Analysis
Jyske bank is a well-known Danish bank that was created in 1967 with the merger of four other Danish banks. The bank had a good reputation being prudent, conservation, and well
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One of the main issues that customers faced when visiting a branch, was the unavailability of their service provider. Managers wanted to close this gap in service design by providing individualized services to their customers to understand their needs and build interpersonal relationships with them. The best way to achieve that was by assigning an account team to each customer. The team consisted of bankers who worked closely with the customer to figure out their needs and offer them solutions. This initiative have also managed to close the listening gap-1 which increased the customers’ satisfaction level.
PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
The bank also had to redesign their branches to meet the new quality dimension of care and empathy.
“We define care as the customer's perception of the employee having genuine concern for the customer's well-being.” (Dwayne D. Gremler Kevin P. Gwinner Stephen W. Brown, 2001)
Jyske used modern colourful furniture and recreated the architecture of all their branches. Each branch was equipped with a café that offered high quality Brazilian coffee, a play area for children, round tables, similar chairs which signified equality, and open office desks which emphasized openness and transparency. Even business card images were changed to be more friendly. This change
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For a bank to succeed nowadays and win against competition, it should reduce its premium charges to maintain and increase larger market share and boost revenues.
“Studies analysing the bottom-line value of CSR have demonstrated that it adds substantial economic and social returns to businesses when it is carefully thought out, executed, and periodically evaluated as part of a holistic institutional policy” (Deegan, 2002; Hummels and Timme, 2004). The bank should also invest in social responsible activities to differentiate it, which can help in emphasizing Jyske’s values and differences and encouraging ethical behaviour amongst its stakeholders. These activities might seem subtle, but they have proven to be forceful signals that improve the brand image and communicate goodwill to customers. They also influence perceptions of the service quality and affects loyalty
Armstrong’s team used branch-level data from the CSI system as the primary source of research. As a result the concept of “comfortable banking” is directly translated into customers satisfaction during their interaction with tellers in the bank, since almost every criteria in the CSI is measuring representative service behaviors. One thing that the team failed to see is that “comfortable banking” could include a much wider scope of services that customers value therefore consider important to their experience: the products itself and services provided outside the bank for instance. According to Armstrong, “comfortable banking” positioning stands for the branding of the overall experience TD Canada Trust delivers to its clients. The financial products, as the core business of any banks throughout the world, should be counted as part of the service, too.
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