In order to prevent this shortfall, and set students up with an opportunistic future, corporations should be partnering with schools to layout coursework that prepares students for jobs requiring services-led thinking.
Meantime, the International Shareholder Services says that such thinking is a business imperative: Two-thirds of the companies that it surveyed said that good governance is the right thing to do and that such standards also give enterprises a leg up.
The group is thinking of pooling municipal services such as water and waste disposal, and even setting up a joint holding company.
Only 14% of those surveyed are currently using cloud-based productivity suites, and another 22% are thinking about adopting these services sometime in the future.
And it takes dedication to creating a culture, an environment, where constant innovation is encouraged and expected and breakthrough thinking, products and services are the end result.
In one rather smart move, Mr Duncan Smith managed both to distance himself from knee-jerk europhobia and to show that he was thinking hard about public services.
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The speech was billed as just one in a series questioning the thinking of the military services, but in retrospect it was something more: the opening salvo in a public debate about the future of the Marine Corps.
The thinking is that these social services are used the most, so it makes sense to put them at your finger tips.
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We need to be thinking about changing the direction services flow on the Internet, so we can ship out services instead of outsourcing jobs.
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Perhaps you, too are thinking of someone in the armed services this day.
This opens the door for thinking at an abstract level about products and services.
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At the SIFMA securities conference June 15, two panels on social media and financial services revealed a world of confusion, contradiction, wishful thinking, denial and regulators lagging behind developments.
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There are a slew of organizational and cultural changes that accompany the transition to a new technology, including modes of accounting, and thinking about how applications are organized to deliver business services.
Michael Kirven, the boss of Bluewolf, one such advisory firm, says that because Amazon and other providers have made it so easy for companies to shift their services to the cloud, some customers have been lulled into thinking they don't need the same amount of backup protection as they would elsewhere.
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Thinking that users will now be forced into their cloud services, Microsoft lined up some cloud offerings, including video service and music.
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The company is also thinking about Rackspace as a target that could satisfy its cloud services needs.
When communities face multi-generational, entrenched problems, we need fresh thinking to push against the status quo and identify the pivotal services or applications that can lead to lasting change.
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Being successful in SEO these days involves thinking along the lines of great customer service, offering great products and services, being a thought leader, and building brand advocacy online.
Cooperating with foreign services like yours is absolutely crucial but I think reading and writing and debating and just thinking is the first essential step.
He asks the chief executive of the Association for Payment Clearing Services (Apacs), which represents the credit card industry, what the banks are thinking of lending money to people who will never be able to afford to pay it back.
There are many other design-thinking principles that entrepreneurs need to heed, such as the fact that products and services are bought by human beings, not target markets segmented into demographic categories.
We still work throughout central Haiti but have also worked in seven other countries, pursuing, along with thousands of others, two goals in tension: high-quality health care for the patient in front of us, but thinking, whenever possible, of the tens of millions more who need the same services.
But the truly creative and destructive forces of the cloud are also beginning to take hold on the customer side in the form of fresh thinking about what IT should be and what it can achieve, new products and services and business models made possible by and those freed-up IT dollars, and new ideas unlocked by those innovative approaches.
McDerment also fired up a blog--called "Fresh Thinking"--to keep customers even more up to date, on everything from new products and services to his own thoughts on the online billing industry at large.
This kind of myopic thinking is one of the biggest challenges for IT companies that reap a large share of their revenues from services application development and maintenance, infrastructure management and validation software.
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