The Ritz Carlton is synonymous with luxury. The strategic planning throughout all aspects of it experience has contributed to their reputation as a world-class luxury hotel. Ritz Carlton’s ability to remain so successful has not been by accident or luck but by implementing a business plan that “has reevaluated its service design processes in order to deliver more experientially based employee and customer engagement.”(Nixon & Rieple, 2010) The management team of Ritz-Carlton built a business plan that puts its focus on who their customers are and what their definition of luxury is. “The Ritz-Carlton no longer sees its self as a hotel company; it now considers itself an experience and memory creator.”(Nixon & Rieple, 2010) This…show more content… The ability to standardize the each locations management plan to account for regional differences is the reason for the Ritz-Carlton’s success. The success of adapting to each location’s unique attribute has produced a better experience for the Ritz-Carlton’s guest. Their business plan has been designed to identify their target customer and what they value as luxury. The management team has identified the critical process that every location has to implement. This standardization provides the structure for the property manager to focus on the experiences of the customer. By using these different elements to gather feedback for problems and solutions, they are developing the key process to anticipate a customer’s needs. The “collection, analysis and distribution of information, including output and quality reports on a company’s process” (Brown, Curry, Jeffery & Edmund, 2003 Pg 100) is exactly what the Ritz-Carlton management team has implemented. Their ability to anticipate their customer’s wants and needs has set them apart from their competition regardless of location and workforce.
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