What earlier coursed through manufacturing has spread to the service sectors as a combination of digital technology and ability to outsource is riddling fields such as telecom (including the booming wireless business).
Spotify created a huge demand for its free service, spread by word of mouth, in its first six months of its launch, but rapidly applied the tourniquet and steered users to paid-for packages ranging from 99p for a day to a tenner a month.
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Other reforms include a new unit to monitor standards and spread best practice in the service.
Gizmodo uncovered the trick and it spread quickly across the microblogging service.
In recent years I have also revived the National Honors Society at our campus and created a culture of service that has spread our work from the streets of Boston to as far away as the Grand Canyon.
Finally, with the rapid growth of social media, your customers now can spread the word about your customer service faster than ever via Facebook, Twitter, and others.
Its economy is growing at a steady pace (about 3% next year is the latest guess) with a goodish spread of high-tech and service industries, especially in media and telecoms.
The review, by the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts, concluded earlier this month that units in Leeds, Leicester and London should stop surgery because expertise was spread too thinly across the health service.
While OnLive's software so far has been targeted largely at PCs with fast Internet connections, the service is likely to spread to mobile devices as 4G access becomes more ubiquitous in 2012 and beyond.
That limit appears to be a bid by Google to hinder the service from being used to spread pirated music.
On Tuesday, the company debuted tools on the video service, Brightcove, that spread the work of delivering video files among many users' computers at once, a process designed to make streaming video faster, cheaper and more reliable.
Do they rave about the giveaways, frequently ask to have in-person meetings, or spread the word about your exceptional level of service?
Is the private sector willing to provide such expertise, to perform 'contact-tracing', the unique NHS service which helps us track the spread of pathogens and identify outbreaks?
Property prices in London's smartest neighborhoods have been rising consistently largely because of an influx of foreign buyers, so the appeal of an improved rail service to the airport will help spread demand into new districts.
But teens discovered the service about two years ago and word spread quickly.
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The chart displays the yield spread, as calculated by Moody's Investors Service, between junk bonds rated speculative and seven-year Treasurys.
This is no accident: the place was built from the ground up to be the best, with no expense spared, including extensive hidden underground tunnels so you never see maids or room service staff walking around the low rise, spread out property.
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Six firefighters wearing breathing apparatus tackled the detached garage blaze, which spread to houses on either side of the building, the fire service said.
And they will take their selflessness and their service, their commitment and their integrity and they will spread it to every corner of our society.
Service started in Mannheim, Germany in 2001 and has since spread to the Netherlands, Sweden and Austria.
Over the next eight weeks, police and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) officers will be visiting disability groups to spread the message that abuse is a crime and should be reported.
Should an epidemic spread inside the firm, it could wreak havoc on the Immigration and Naturalization Service's database, disrupt Continental Airlines' flight operations or destroy Medicare records.
These jobs often involve local knowledge and range from things like checking what street signs say in rural Sudan for a satellite-navigation service to translating words into a Kenyan dialect for companies trying to spread their marketing.
Further afield in Seattle where chains are also now required to display calories (the practice also spread to California), a study of 37 sit-down and quick service burger, pizza, sandwich, and Tex-Mex chains in the area found fast-food entrees contained about 19 less calories only 18 months after the regulation was implemented.
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Was it something customer service workers across industries were being drilled to do, or had it spread organically, like slang?
The fire service said the workers tried and failed to extinguish the blaze and it spread behind the external cladding "extremely quickly due to the dry nature of the material".
The state was spared the worst of the storm, and the highest snowfalls were spread across northern New Jersey, where River Vale got 15 inches, the National Weather Service reported.
Service Corp. will be using the sale of these operations, which are spread out across the U.S. and Canada, to reduce debt accrued in a buying spree of funeral homes in the 1980s and 1990s.
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