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As most researchers recognize, service operations link with customers. The customers as participants act in the service operations system driven by the goal of sufficing his\/her added values. This is one of the distinctive features of service production and consumption. In the paper, first, we propose the idea of service operations improvement by mapping objectively the service experience of customers from the view of customer journey. 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