With self-service, we will find more automation of what, today, we call the service desk.
City dwellers have become used to self-service machines and telephone-keypad transactions, which don't require attendants.
So to work well, self-service requires the marriage of customers with machines and software.
Bruce plans to roll out these self-service cash registers at his remaining five locations.
They surveyed beverages from both self-service and employee-dispensed machines and the samples were tested.
For most users of the service, the campaigns are pure self-service, with no IT required.
This is a perfect example of personalized service, self-service, and creative marketing all rolled into one.
Spinx plans to start issuing its own plastic to customers who buy gas at automated self-service pumps.
Business applications include Customer Relationship Management, Regulatory Compliance, Contact Centers, Help Desks, Web Self-Service and Business Intelligence.
In a nutshell, self-service gives people control over many functions that used to be handled by HR.
The next step for Groupon and for other businesses targeting the local market will be enabling self-service.
Family Dollar Stores operates a chain of self-service retail discount stores primarily for low- and middle-income consumers.
SOAs and ESBs did not have this requirement, and thus, often lacked the capability to offer self-service.
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In particular, consumers will embrace self-service only if the systems are well designed and easy to use.
The wrong approach is all too obvious on many of those corporate websites that offer self-service help.
"This wasn't about self-service at the expense of staff, " said Gabriella D'Alessandro, Qantas's head of technology operations.
Gerald Ronson, 72, who brought self-service petrol stations to Britain in the 1960s, gets a CBE for services to charity.
He closed a division that supplied kit for self-service photocopiers, cutting the workforce by more than half.
The other reason that self-service app stores make sense is that the connectivity situation with smartphones and tablets.
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But what often goes overlooked when forging forward with employee self-service is the importance of ease of use.
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Shopping online, for example, with round-the-clock access and no crowds, traffic or pesky salespeople, lends itself to self-service.
If companies extend self-service too far, or do it in the wrong way, they could alienate their customers.
Napcabs are German-engineered, 4sqm self-service units, equipped with amenities such as double beds, worktables and air conditioning units.
The council said the self-service bike hire scheme will run 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Self-service cups would also be prohibited from containing more than 16 fluid ounces.
You have to build a very agile, responsive, self-service sort of IT architecture.
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Marketfish is an online self-service platform that makes it easy for marketing professionals to buy email and postal lists.
The old vision was to create a self-service, easy to use product that anybody could use to sell tickets.
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It was not the most adept early adopter of online ticketing, self-service airport kiosks or in-flight technology and entertainment.
The hallmark of all of these self-service transactions is that they take place with little or no human contact.
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