The new service-based economy rewards communication and adaptation, qualities that women are more likely to have.
In general, he says, there is less overhead for service-based businesses, which don't require large outlays for equipment and inventory.
This means that CIOs must drive a service-based strategy demonstrated by a service roadmap, a service broker management infrastructure, and a service governance platform.
But if we allow our emotional connection to the manufacturing sector to overshadow the tremendous opportunities our service-based economy offers, we do ourselves a disservice.
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Since then, users have posted more than 33 million reviews on Yelp, sharing their opinions about doctors, restaurants, florists, auto shops and other service-based businesses.
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Stephanie Chandler is a professional speaker and author of Own Your Niche: Hype-Free Internet Marketing Tactics to Establish Authority in Your Field and Promote Your Service-Based Business.
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As the collaboration developed, the team constructed a new business model to overcome the lack of sanitation infrastructure and solve the issue of waste removal: the concept of a service-based system.
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In Singapore, we sought employees who could demonstrate "aggressive hospitality" toward guests, rather than "speak when spoken to" behavior, to create a competitive edge within a society that is not traditionally service-based.
And now it is becoming more service-based.
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Yet there is far to go, and a shift in attitude is needed to match the city's transformation into a service-based economy, a realisation that serving in pubs and hotels is just as fulfilling as turning a lathe.
Service-based business owners like Hariprashad noted that business has been worse for the last two tax seasons with more people on unemployment for the 2010 tax year and many not even qualifying to file for the 2011 tax year.
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Just as product- and service-based brands have to choose their celebrity ambassadors carefully, individuals looking to up their personal clout (to say nothing of Klout) should be aware that others will form opinions of them based on their associates.
In addition, consumers can automatically sync their AppZone apps with Android-based devices via BlueStacks Cloud Connect, a cloud-based service that enables a Windows-based PC to become an extension of an Android mobile device and vice versa1.
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Jott, a 2-year-old service from Seattle-based Jott Networks, is a close rival.
Microsoft is revamping its e-mail security service into a next-generation security service based on the Forefront technology of Stirling.
The programs, an addition to the company's "Lotus" group of applications, also represent one of IBM's most ambitious forays yet into enterprise software-as-a-service, the browser-based model of applications pioneered by companies like Salesforce.com.
Fisher and company have been making rapid-fire acquisitions, among them Motorola's European cellular service and Israel-based Delta Three.
Earlier this month, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano signed the toughest employer sanctions in the nation: Beginning Jan. 1, all 130, 000-plus Arizona employers will be required to use a now voluntary Web-based federal service--commonly known as the "basic pilot program"--to check the legal work status of new hires.
American Express (Amex) has launched a purchase-by-tweet service for its US-based customers.
Modwenna Rees-Mogg, chief executive of AngelNews, a U.K.-based news service for investors, has been mulling over Web-based software for two years, but hadn't seen anything that managed all the business processes she needed.
Dennis Crowley, chief executive of the hot location-based service Foursquare, talked about plans for the company and his vision of location-based services at an event organized by Girls In Tech in San Francisco Tuesday night.
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Like Salesforce.com , RightNow aimed to sell its customer relationship management (CRM) software as a low-maintenance, Web-based service, not a shrink-wrapped product.
Senior police official HS Mann told Indo-Asian News Service that the Canada-based man was "the main kingpin and they used to smuggle the drugs to the various countries of Europe and North America".
Rather than stress a series' overnight ratings, HBO Co-President Richard Plepler says the subscription-based service gets as much as two-thirds of its viewing post-premiere night.
Closing remarks by Wendy Spencer, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service, reaffirmed the importance of corporate leadership in skills-based service.
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Clearwire is looking to build a high-speed voice and data service based on next-generation wireless standard WiMax.
As a country, we need the foundation of manufacturing, and we're becoming more a service and technology-based country.
Liberty Reserve - a Costa Rican-based digital currency service - has been shut down after the reported arrest of its founder.
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