But as an industry matures and products and services improve, there is a shift.
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As essential services improve, so does the relationship between the government and its citizens.
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As location based services improve, working inside buildings with greater accuracy, consumers will soon be able to use their smartphones in new ways as they shop, interacting with retailers and brands.
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Elsewhere there are talks of mergers between organisations or the closure of services to improve efficiency.
''Good care, treatment and support must be accompanied by services to improve the person's overall quality of life.
This allows them to fine-tune their services and improve the accuracy of features such as traffic status updates.
It also sells application performance services to improve the performance of content on corporate extranets and wide area networks.
Allowing for-profit hospitals and clinics would lead to new investment, increase the range of services and improve quality of life.
Hospitals can use Optum's services to improve their operations, creating new revenue for Optum and new savings for United's insurance business.
We must work together to raise awareness, increase access to services, improve preventive care, and end the silence surrounding this life-threatening illness so at-risk and infected individuals can receive the assistance they need.
One of the early papers to come out of the project is a look at how the city of Busan, in South Korea, is using cloud-based city services to improve efficiency, reduce emissions and serve its residents better.
He has promised that the health care plan he supports will increase access to health services and improve their quality, but simultaneously will not increase the size of the federal deficit or be funded with tax hikes - and this is impossible.
The public sector can also work together with corporations and NGOs to organize complementary networks of small and medium enterprises to take on the challenge of increasing the distribution of and demand for quality, affordable products and services to improve maternal and child health.
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As the CIO, I understood how to leverage scale and take advantage of shared services models to drive down costs and improve services levels.
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Care Services Minister Paul Burstow said plans were already in place to improve services.
South West Trains, which runs services in the Camberley area, said it welcomed feedback from passengers about how it could improve services.
He has even stuck with the Citizen's Charter for public services--a policy at which commentators like to sneer but which has done more to improve services than is ever reported in the national media.
Indeed we've shown at Clackmannanshire Council we can both improve services and reduce costs.
Ms Griffiths said the children's development centre would improve services and provide an "appropriate environment".
Alex Salmond has said universities should consider sharing facilities to help save money and improve services.
In 2010, the HEI identified 13 requirements and four recommendations to improve services at the BGH.
Devon Partnership NHS Trust said there was a "strong commitment" to develop and improve services.
In these diametrically-opposed visions, the Republicans trust firms to curb costs and improve services.
Gwent Police Commissioner Ian Johnston, an independent, said that if policing were devolved it must improve services.
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"Progress is continuing to be made to improve services based on the Adult Neurosciences review, " the spokesperson added.
The council said it had also started to work with a private sector partner, iMPOWER to improve services.
Daschle said the per capita cap approach would give states the incentive to improve services with guaranteed benefits.
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Mr Lansley said the government was trying to improve services as illustrated by the investment in the diversion sites.
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He added the plans had the potential to improve services as GPs were "much quicker to respond to patients".
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