The Major Principles of Evaluating Total Value and Competitiveness of Services

Major features of specific services have much in common with other services, being, however, more closely related to marketing strategies. The article deals with the principles of quantitative evaluation of competitiveness of services. The complex approach to the above problems should be developed. The major goal of the present investigation is to develop basic theoretical principles for the analysis of total value and competitiveness of services and competitive advantage of service companies aimed at solving actual problems. Let us consider, for example, basic principles of evaluation of the competitiveness of road transport services. For this purpose, a new concept referred to as the total value of the transport services is offered. It reflects more detailed evaluation of services quality. For a general case, the model for the services value may be expressed as the dependence of total value vector on the vectors of local values. The index of competitiveness may be expressed in terms of the concept of total value. In determining the impact of inside factors on the performance of the services system, the emphasis should be placed on competitive advantage as a major criterion reflecting its effectiveness. The goal is to establish the relationship between them and the efficiency characteristics of the above system, as well as its competitive advantage. In the present investigation, the suggested evaluation criteria imply that competitiveness (competitive advantage) of the services system is expressed in terms of the vector belonging to a set of vectors generally describing how effectively the system performs. Competitiveness is, in turn, defined by a system of inside components: marketing management and technological competitiveness, competitiveness of services and level of diversification (differentiation)