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Agile Information Systems: Conceptualization, Construction, and Management
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Service Productization
Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a Service Productization. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound. Productization of services is accomplished by associating tangible features with intangible service offerings. Tangible features may take the form of personnel, collateral, methodologies, pricing, facilities, or other attributes. Automation tools like enterprise service automation, database, and project management tools serve as enablers to service productization. By associating tangible features with intangible services, the professional services firm can build client confidence.
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: Service Productization Service Productization Source: Epicor Document Type: White Paper Description: Productization of services is accomplished by associating tangible features with intangible service offerings. Tangible features may take the form of personnel, collateral, methodologies, pricing, facilities, or other attributes. Automation tools like enterprise service automation, database, and project management tools serve as enablers to service productization. By associating tangible features with
5/16/2005 12:00:00 AM
Good Customer Service Is Simple
Most companies salute good customer service as a key objective. But in its simplest form, what is good customer service? Outstanding customer service is a competitive advantage. Most companies salute good customer service as a key objective. But in its simplest form, what is good customer service? Olin Thompson lays down some basic requirements for businesses and explains the role of business processes in supporting good customer service.
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: I Want My Private Cloud | Top Three Learning Management Trends for 2011 | A Candid Conversation with a Field Service Workforce Management Leader | Mobile Learning: Is Your Business Ready for It? | Why I Like Vanilla | Collecting Meaningful Data from the Web: Once an Impossibility, Now a Reality | Busting the Myth of Commoditized Software Markets with the New TEC Focus Indicator | In Search of Sustainability with Dassault Systèmes | Are ERP Workarounds a Terrific Way of Shooting Yourself in the Foot? |
11/26/2010 8:44:00 AM
IFS Wins in Field Service Management » The TEC Blog
Technologies , a pure cloud FSM platform that includes appointment scheduling and dispatch, call status, and some real-time optimization. The solution is seemingly great for high-volume, low task complexity field service applications, with its current focus on services for utilities. But, TOA is much narrower in its service lifecycle management (SLM) footprint, i.e., offering hardly anything in the areas of parts planning and inventory management. Along similar lines is ClickSoftware , although the vendor
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26-02-2013
Where Has All the Service Gone?
For some reason, once a product moves into the retail channel, most manufacturers lose control. The retailer abdicates responsibility. When faced with a problem, the consumer is alone! What happened to the lifetime value of the customer? This article examines the lapses and promises in providing service to the end customer.
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: Where Has All the Service Gone? Where Has All the Service Gone? Carla Reed - November 2, 2004 Read Comments Introduction (Optional verse to accompany this—with apologies to Where Have All the Flowers Gone? ) Where has all the Service gone? Gone to outsource, everyone ... When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn? Where have all the Customers gone? Gone ballistic, every one!! When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn? Recent presidential debates included predictable topics. More
11/2/2004
Oracle introduces Enterprise Healthcare Analytics Cloud Service » The TEC Blog
introduces Enterprise Healthcare Analytics Cloud Service » The TEC Blog TEC Blog TEC Home About TEC Contact Us About the Bloggers Follow TEC on Twitter RSS Discussing Enterprise Software and Selection --> Fast, Accurate Software Evaluations TEC helps enterprises evaluate and select software solutions that meet their exacting needs by empowering purchasers with the tools, research, and expertise to make an ideal decision. Your software selection starts here. Lear
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Three Types of Field Service Scheduling Software
There are three distinctly different approaches to solving the puzzle of getting the right people to the right place at the right time. This white paper describes the three strategies for better field service scheduling plans--manual processes, traditional scheduling automation, and real-time scheduling automation--and explains why each approach matches different needs. Which strategy is right for you?
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: Three Types of Field Service Scheduling Software Three Types of Field Service Scheduling Software Source: IFS Document Type: White Paper Description: There are three distinctly different approaches to solving the puzzle of getting the right people to the right place at the right time. This white paper describes the three strategies for better field service scheduling plans--manual processes, traditional scheduling automation, and real-time scheduling automation--and explains why each approach matches
2/3/2012 4:29:00 PM
Service Chain Information will Transform the Total Chain
Moving to a performance-based service business model will have huge implications for the whole value chain. Its principle is to manage for outcomes—procure performance rather than parts and people. It requires total business process reorientation from services and maintenance through procurement techniques, as well as the IT platform for integration.
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: Service Chain Information will Transform the Total Chain Service Chain Information will Transform the Total Chain Ann Grackin - June 22, 2004 Read Comments Introduction Spending time with very diverse sets of businesses—from Combatant Commanders in the military to a dishwasher repair business, the obvious facts continue to haunt me—and probably a huge amount of business people—is the lack of real information about what happens to products once they leave the manufacturer. From a hot bumpy ride (RFID
6/22/2004
How to Convert Service Calls Into Sales
In the white paper how to convert service calls into sales, you'll discover how real-time offer management allows your company to continuously lear...
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: How to Convert Service Calls Into Sales How to Convert Service Calls Into Sales The magic formula for selling more products or services is simple: present the right offer to the right prospect via the right channel-at the right time. Of course, that s easier said than done. But if you re in a service-intensive business, real-time offer management can help turn that magic formula into a profitable reality for your organization. Real-time offer management is an application designed to initiate and optimize
7/21/2009
ILM as a Journey: Moving Towards Storage as a Service
Technology decision-making in larger organizations is about making existing IT platforms as efficient as possible. However, there are weaknesses in the day-to-day operation of such environments, particularly in storage and information management. Positioning information lifecycle management (ILM) in the context of infrastructure management provides an understanding of where we are today—and of how much further there is to go.
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: ILM as a Journey: Moving Towards Storage as a Service ILM as a Journey: Moving Towards Storage as a Service Source: Quocirca Ltd Document Type: White Paper Description: Technology decision-making in larger organizations is about making existing IT platforms as efficient as possible. However, there are weaknesses in the day-to-day operation of such environments, particularly in storage and information management. Positioning information lifecycle management (ILM) in the context of infrastructure management
11/3/2006 10:19:00 AM
Digital Business Service Providers Series: Market Overview
Today’s Digital Business Service Provider (DBSP) market is a complex of interrelated services and provider capabilities. This article traces the history of the service providers, and explains how each arose at points when markets developed around particular core technologies. The historical evidence suggests something about future planning for new technologies and developments.
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Service Restoration: It’s Everybody’s Business
Has your organization truly embraced the message of the incident management process, as part of the practices recommended in the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)? If your efforts have centered on the service desk, then you may be missing out on a lot of what incident management in particular and ITIL in general can offer. Learn more about the core principles of ITIL, and how you can use them to improve service management.
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: Service Restoration: It’s Everybody’s Business Service Restoration: It’s Everybody’s Business Source: Third Sky, Inc. Document Type: White Paper Description: Has your organization truly embraced the message of the incident management process, as part of the practices recommended in the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)? If your efforts have centered on the service desk, then you may be missing out on a lot of what incident management in particular and ITIL in general can offer. Learn more about the
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