Active Customer Contact and Personalized Attention Can Lower Cost to the Customer

question 68

Multiple Choice

Active customer contact and personalized attention can lower cost to the customer by:

• A) increasing the capital intensity.
• B) trading fixed costs for an equivalent variable cost.
• C) substituting customer efforts for those of the service provider.
• D) lowering the level of technology involved.

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Definitions:

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