But some other areas on our list are benefiting from a hitherto unnoted shift of high-end services to lower-cost and often lower-density regions.
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At the same time, Hudson is stepping up investments in high-end services for the intelligence community such as cyber security, having recently hired intelligence insider Larry Prior away from ManTech International to be one of her two executive vice presidents.
America's export boom is likely to be led by firms that are already global in scale and by sectors in which America has a clear competitive advantage: sophisticated, knowledge-intensive capital goods like microprocessors, and high-end services like engineering, oil-production services and even (witness KPF) architecture.
In this region, most homes are well above water and many businesses--in everything from agriculture and energy to manufacturing and high-end business services--remain on solid footing.
Notably absent from the top 10 are Chicago and the big metropolitan areas of the Northeast and California that have traditionally dominated high-end business services.
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Of course up-and-comers like Jacksonville, Charlotte, and Oklahoma City, and even Portland (10th place), still lack the critical mass of high-end business services of many of the larger, more established metropolitan areas.
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All the firms offer services from high-end businesses like IT consulting to low-end management of servers and business process outsourcing.
People of all walks of life reached out for mobiles, even if some mobile businesses started by selling services to high-end customers.
For example, the IP data center segment grew by 170% year-on-year, reflecting the fact that many companies are buying high-end servers that can handle the massive Internet traffic associated with cloud-based computing services.
Sales efforts are aided by marketers such as Harbor Digital Services, which makes high-end signage and has introduced HSS to clients like McDonald's and IBM and is working on the supermarket deal with ABC.
Now in 49 markets, it plans to add 11 more by year-end, offering a full suite of e-commerce, Web hosting and high-speed data services.
Dell uses a mix of its own 7, 000 service employees and others under contract, leaving the high-end consulting to the likes of EDS. "Break-fix has been derided as Tinkertoy services, but there's a lot of money to be made there, " says Rollins.
Michael Dell, 47, is betting that his company will be able to evolve into a more diversified seller of technology services, business software and high-end computers without having to pander to the stock market's fixation on whether earnings are growing from one quarter to the next.
Giles, a vice president at Marsh Private Client Services, a broker representing several high-end insurance carriers.
More specifically, Corduro competes with companies like Square on the merchant services side, and Quicken on the high-end enterprise side, he said.
Now in 49 markets, it plans to add 11 more by year-end, offering a full suite of e-commerce, web-hosting and high-speed data services.
Accenture, with more than 3, 000 people in New York, saw the Lab as an opportunity to help the city create more high-end jobs in financial technology, and, not so incidentally, to deepen its own relationships with financial services clients while simultaneously getting a glimpse of rising new technology innovations.
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