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"Managing the Professional Service Firm", 2006.
This paper reviews the suggestions and strategies in David H. Maister's "Managing the Professional Service Firm."
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 49.95
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The writer of this paper examines and describes each chapter in David H. Maister's "Managing the Professional Service Firm." The book contains suggestions, business plans and strategies pertaining to the service industry. Topics covered in this paper include: Motivating employees and attracting new clients, marketing and maximizing profitability in a professional service firm.
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"Chapter seven is titled with a warning to professional service firms: quality work doesn't mean quality service. Maister argues that quality service is as important as quality work, because both leave the client satisfied with the firm-client relationship. Maister offers the following formula: satisfaction equals perception minus expectation. If the client perceives that the service is at a certain level but expected a higher level of service, then that client will the dissatisfied."
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CrossTier.com: A Professional Services Firm, 2006.
A report for professional services firm, CrossTier.com, concerning its increasing focus on B-to-B e-commerce services.
2,923 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 86.95
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This report focuses on B-to-B e-commerce professional services firm, CrossTier.com and its rebranding strategy aimed at moving the company wholly into the e-Business consulting and systems integration services sector. The paper also explains that CrossTier.com's product is a set of e-commerce solutions designed to help clients integrate and automate selling, service, procurement and other B-to-B processes. It describes how the product was developed as well as why the company has been so successful. The paper also concludes with some recommendations for the company's continued success.
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"Located outside Washington, DC, in Virginia's growing High Technology Corridor, CrossTier.com is a privately held, rapidly growing e?Business consulting and systems integration professional services firm. Founded in 1990 as EJBell Systems, Inc., the company, which has been profitable since its inception, initially focused on custom networked application development and back?office integration services."
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Maryland-Professional and Business Services, 2006.
A review of the professional and business sectors of Maryland.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, $ 44.95
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This document discusses Maryland's economy relative to the professional and business services sector. Maryland's economy is the perfect storm of requisite conditions that this sector needs in order to expand. Maryland has a large concentration of military and defense contractors, several free trade zone, international port access, and is within easy access to every major metropolitan center along the East coast. The paper concludes that the professional and business services sector is going to expand from its current 13% of the total to 15-17% within the next 3-5 years.
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"Maryland has proven itself to be an attractive location for professional and business services companies to expand in, start up, or relocate to. It is very conveniently located along the Eastern seaboard of the United States and within reach of transportation to every major metropolitan area along the east coast. This location is important because, since professional and business services require a healthy presence of all industries it encourages a wide array of other businesses and enterprises as well (Maryland, 2006). Additionally, approximately 89% of the Maryland's population of 5.2m residents all reside within a single Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA) which the census bureau uses to aggregate populations (Maryland, 2006). "
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Professional Services, Strategic Management, And Competing for the Future, 2002.
This paper addresses strategic management strategies, both traditional ones, and those proposed by Hamel & Prahalad in their management classic, Competing for the Future.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper addresses strategic management strategies, both traditional ones, and those proposed by Hamel & Prahalad in their management classic, Competing for the Future. The paper discusses how, as well as which, of these strategies should be applied in the professional services/consulting industry.
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Service-Learning and Professional Writing, 2004.
Discusses the concept of service-learning and how to implement it at the university level.
1,750 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper looks at the service-learning method of teaching professional writing skills and suggests that it is an effective way to teach students in an informative, engaging manner. Writing for non-profit business organizations is one of the ways suggested that universities can offer service-learning opportunities. The paper then explains, in greater detail, how this application of service-learning would work and points out that the student, university, faculty, and business will benefit from this type of arrangement, although the student is of primary concern.
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"Service learning has become an integral part of educational curriculum from the youngest to the oldest learning populations. The challenge at a college level is to both instruct students in an informed and engaging manner and to offer opportunities for learning that hold the six tenets of service learning to heart; integrated learning, high quality service, student voice, civic responsibility, and reflection."
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The Public Service and Professionalism, 2002.
An annotated bibliography of the Canadian public service in terms of professionalism.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 9 sources, $ 62.95
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The senior Canadian public service was regarded as 'Mandarins' from 1935 to 1957. Today New Public Management (NPM) challenges that professionalism in the public service and the complimentary political ideology of neo-conservatism.
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Job Burnout among Public Service Professionals, 2004.
This paper is a proposed study to analyze job burnout among doctors, other health care professionals, lawyers, teachers, law enforcement, and social workers, as this has become a full-blown issue in the public service sector.
2,545 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 19 sources, APA, $ 77.95
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This paper states that the objectives of this study are not only to identify what factors cause burnout in public service professionals, but also to determine if there is a correlation between using sick time and experiencing burnout. The author points out that the initial review of literature suggests (1) burnout is a serious problem; (2) job factors such as years of service, age, sex, type of work, depression, amount of client contact, overtime, low job satisfaction, and dissatisfaction with clients; (3) a correlation between sick time and burnout; and (4) burnout occurring at any time. The paper states that the study attempts to support each of these hypotheses through actual interviews with public service professionals and a review of additional literature.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Problem
Hypothesis of the Study
Objective of the Study
Methodology
Scope and Delimitation
Definition of Terms
Literature Review
Basic Assumptions
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"The desire to make a positive difference to other people's lives is the main reason why people chose to work in the public sector, according to the government's public spending watchdog. However, a report by the audit commission found that 42% of staff in health, local government, education and other public services cited the aim of helping others as the main or secondary reason for choosing their job. The report also revealed that 28% of public services workers had held a long-term ambition to enter their chosen profession, with a further 24% saying they considered the work inherently interesting. Former public services workers reported that stress was the single biggest factor in their decision to leave their job, with nearly 80% citing overwhelming bureaucracy, paperwork and government targets as the main reason for feeling under pressure. Nearly 70% blamed their stress on a lack of resources, while 65% cited excessive workloads, 56% on not being valued by the government, 55% on the pace of change within their profession, and 49% on not being valued by their managers."
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How an Asset Management Firm was Effected by Sept. 11th and Terrorism, 2002.
The paper looks at how an asset management firm, Trust Company of the West, was affected by the tragic events of September 11th.
2,360 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 72.95
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This paper is an examination of the Trust Company of the West, otherwise know as TCW, an asset management firm based in Los Angeles, California. The author talks about why the World Trade Center attack had a large effect on the asset management industry as a whole and more specifically, on the Trust Company of the West?s syndicated loans group.
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"Although September 11th will forever be the day associated with dramatic change, our economy was already in a downward spiral. The markets were weak and consumers and business owners were already preparing for the uncertainties that were predicted. Just a short while before September 11th, the dot-com industry spiraled downward and took the market with it. There were already massive corporate layoffs, business bankruptcies, corporate downsizing and restructuring, an energy crisis and over-consumption in the marketplace."
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EMSDS (Emergency Medical Services Daycare Service), 2004.
This paper is a business plan for EMSDS, Emergency Medical Daycare Services, a part-time daycare program that meets the challenging scheduling needs of firefighters and EMS professionals with similar scheduling limitations.
3,695 words (approx. 14.8 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 102.95
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This paper explains that the firefighter daycare center will provide a staff of qualified professionals, all of whom are certified with Early Childhood Education (ECE) diplomas, and, above all else, flexible and affordable. The author points out that the daycare will aspire to attract clientele, gain corporate and community sponsorship in an effort to reduce costs, and provide adequate services and seek out volunteers to help manage operating costs. The paper concludes that, in the event that EMSDS does not find adequate resources with which to conduct business in its first year, it will postpone arrangements to open approximately one year later. Charts.
Table of Contents
Introduction/Executive Summary
Vision
Situational Analysis
Market Demographics
Market Summary
Market Needs
Market Trends
Market Forecast/Growth
SWOT
Competition
Mission
Market Objectives
Marketing Mix
Pricing
Competition
Selling Methods
Financial Data
Breakeven
Implementation
Contingency
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"The daycare industry is growing. The childcare services industry is one of the most rapidly growing markets, expanding in part due to accommodate the increasingly high demand for quality services. In 1999 the market for childcare services topped out at more than $3.5 billion. The market is expected to surpass $60 billion in revenues in the upcoming years, in part due to the fact that both parents typically are now working in the labor force. ?Child care expenses by households rose 15.7% between 1986 and 1999 alone?. ?Formal daycare service providers in 1999 earned revenues of approximately $1.8 billion, with expenses toping out at approximately $1.7 billion, leaving more than $96 million in profits for daycare providers?. The profit margin is approximately 5.3%."
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Operations, 2005.
This paper summarizes articles on professional service firms dealing with a variety of topics.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper reviews five articles on professional service firms dealing with various topics such as juggling work and home life and calculating supply and demand. The paper also looks at career strategies; the difficulties balancing work and family life.
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"Abby Joseph Cohen: A Cared Retrospective summarizes this woman's career starting from her school days when she flouted convention and became an outstanding science student to the phases of her career as an economic analyst and market forecaster. One of the first women in the field she encountered discrimination but pursued and achieved equal treatment. Cohen is a strong-minded person who is not afraid to hold her opinion when others differ with her."
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Operational Risk, 2005.
An analysis of whether U.S. financial services firms are more prone to operational risk than U.K. financial services firms.
8,989 words (approx. 36.0 pages), 37 sources, APA, $ 187.95
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This paper comparatively analyses the operational risk faced by U.K. and U.S. financial services firms. It performs its analysis by detecting and measuring the degree of efficiency of U.S. financial services firms' stocks in relation to their U.K. counterparts. It incorporates the portfolio theory and the efficient stock markets hypothesis as part of its analytical framework.
Outline
Introduction
Literature Review
Methodology
Company Backgrounds and Profiles
Discussion and Analysis
Empirical Results
Limitations and Future Research
Conclusion
Bibliography
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"Intuitively, operational risk is the potential for any disruption in the company's operational routine processes. The disruption may come from a variety of sources ranging from rogue trading and accounting mistakes to terrorist activities and landmark legal settlement, and from improper sales practices and systems failures to sabotage_ or just simply random freak accidents of nature-. It can be argued that the above disruptions are more commonly noted in the US and in the UK, for example, in recent times, the US has been subject to far more terrorist threats and actual attacks, more so than the UK. And hence, one might conclude that these disruptions cause financial companies in the US to be more exposed to operational risks than those in the UK."
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Advanced Universal Service, 2005.
Explores the need for universal service based on skills needed to compete in the Information Age and identifies key areas that public telecommunications policies should address in defining universal service for the future.
16,665 words (approx. 66.7 pages), 50 sources, APA, $ 249.95
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This paper seeks to address whether access to relatively new telecommunications technologies such as the Internet and broadband should be covered by a redefinition of universal service-advanced universal service. This paper examines the concept of universal service from a historical perspective to evaluate its current regulatory status. It examines the needs and barriers to implementing advanced universal service, explains broadband technologies, looks at initiatives to help narrow the digital divide, explores policy objectives and finally makes recommendations for policy makers for basic and advanced universal service. This paper finds that universal service policies should continue to ensure access to basic Internet and that policy makers should continue to closely monitor the deployment of advanced telecommunications technologies to ensure equitable access by all citizens. It does not, however, recommend that advanced universal service be deployed at this time.
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Abstract
Introduction
Overview
Methodology
History of Universal Service
Initial Executive, Legislative, and Regulatory Environment in 1934
Deregulation and Universal Service Fund in 1996
Bill Introduction
Conference Committee
Passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996
Section 254: Revision of Universal Service
Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service
Public Interest Advocates
Section 706: Advanced Telecommunications Incentives
Need for Universal Service
Information Age
Economic Benefits
Digital Divide
21st Century Job Skills
Empowerment
Access as a Right
Broadband Technology Descriptions
Broadband
Cable TV Networks
Digital Subscribe Line: xDSL
Fiber Access Networks: FTTx
Wireless Access Networks
Applications
Internet Access
Video-Conferencing
Video on Demand
Near Video on Demand
Digital Television
Barriers to Advanced Universal Service
Opposing Arguments
Executive, Legislative and Regulatory Climates
Monopoly vs Competitive Environment
Emerging Policy Arenas
Current Initiatives
Public
Next Generation Internet
The President's National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council
Department of Education
Department of Commerce
National Science Foundation
Department of Agriculture
Universal Service Administrative Corporation
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Private
OpenNET Coalition
AT&T
IBM
Partnerships
Presidential Advisory Committee
The Benton Foundation
Family Technology Resource Centers
Policy Objectives
Access
Standards
Competition
Content
Positive Outcomes
Negative Outcomes
Options
Option A
Option B
Option C
Recommendation
References
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"Section 254 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 not only reaffirms the central importance of universal service in telecommunications, but it has vastly expanded the concept. The FCC is charged with assuring that all rates for universal service are just, reasonable, and affordable, not just the rates for interstate service. The word "affordable" had not been used before this legislation, but the 1996 Act introduces the concept of affordability directly and explicitly into national policy. The 1996 Act expands the services to which the universal service concept applies and institutes a formal process for expanding the definition of universal service over time. Although access to the network for high-cost areas and low-income consumers has been supported for years, the 1996 Act explicitly requires this policy and requires that it be implemented with specific and predictable mechanisms, in the form of contributions from all providers of telecommunications services to support universal service. A whole new range of institutions has been identified as having a role in universal service policy."
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Management Communications, Project Management and Quality, 2002.
An evaluation of management communications, project management and quality issues using a case study format.
2,648 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 79.95
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The paper shows that TaxPrep, Inc., a (real) tax preparation service firm, is rapidly losing market share, experiencing negative profits, and is unable to efficiently bring new software products to market. This paper analyzes TaxPrep?s problems and presents specific recommendations to solve the software development, organizational, and communications issues. Short-term recommendations include: implementing project management techniques for software development, conducting employee communication sessions, and freezing present compensation. The paper shows that, in the long-term, TaxPrep should implement a management system that meets the Q9001-2000 quality management standard, market new web-based products, and institute performance based compensation.
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"In the late 1980?s TaxPrep, Incorporated (TaxPrep) found itself quickly losing market share in the service bureau tax preparation business. Profits and sales plummeted during 1990-91 threatening the future of the Company. TaxPrep?s survival depends upon its ability to rapidly enter the personal computer (PC) tax software market where consumers are numerous and competitors have a strong lead. The tax preparation industry was in an acquisition frenzy during the mid to late 1980?s, as evidenced by the addition of six firms to TaxPreps? portfolio. Due to this period of rapid change and because PC developers are using new programming technology (?C? programming language requires less programmers), TaxPrep found itself with surplus personnel. The Company reduced the employee headcount by over 50 percent in the number of sales and support jobs. These large layoffs created anxiety within the surviving employee base, which is further hampering the ZX Development Groups? (a division of TaxPrep) ability to efficiently develop software for the PC market niche."
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Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), 2006.
This paper is a literary review of the construction, advantages and disadvantages of service oriented architectures (SOA).
14,880 words (approx. 59.5 pages), 22 sources, APA, $ 249.95
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This paper explains that service orientation architectures are required because of the significant increase in the amount of data and information, which companies and organization have to handle, and a substantial increase in the complexity of the technologies, which store this information received from a multiplicity of sources. The author points out that the methodology behind SOA identifies software architectures in a more refined manner by placing greater focus on the exchanges amongst large software components. The paper relates that the method of service orientation emphasizes re-usability by separating the interface to an operation from its internal implementation.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Rationale for the Study
Background Information: Impact on the Information Architecture
Problem Statement
Research Questions
Glossary of Terms
Service Oriented Architectures
Benefits to Enterprises
Approaches to Integration
Principles of SOA
Share a Formal Contract
Loosely Coupled
Abstract Underlying Logic
Composable
Reusable
Autonomy of Services
Stateless Services
Discoverability of Services
XML Structure
Technologies: XML and Web Services
Web Services
Approaches to Service Enablement
Service Proxies
Service Adapters
Implementation and Management of SOA
Unified Information Views
Data Sources
Data Transformations and ESB
ESB
Access, Security and Security Integration
Integration with Enterprise Security
Discussion and Conclusions
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"Although Service Oriented Architectures have become popular in recent years, the majority of enterprise architectures are not enabled for service-orientation. Businesses will therefore have to alter their enterprise architectures in order to benefit from the advantages of service orientation - a flexible, extensible, and evolvable architecture. The research will investigate ways of enabling enterprise architectures for service orientation and how an enterprise wide adoption will impact on it. The research will also address issues such as SOA integration principles, data sources and transformations, access and security and integration."
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Books about Customer Service, 2008.
This paper compare two books "The Myth of Excellence" by F. Crawford and R. Mathews and "Branded Customer Service" by J. Barlow and P. Stewart, which address the complex customer service issues.
1,550 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 50.95
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This paper states that Barlow and Stewart's "Branded Customer Service" does an adequate job of exploring the relationship between customer service and branding; however, Crawford and Mathews' "The Myth of Excellence" is a much more insightful and provocative study of advanced service management today. The author points out that Barlow and Stewart state that, in order to add value to a brand, the modern business enterprise must focus first and foremost upon customer service. The paper relates that Crawford and Mathews study the importance of customer service from not only a business perspective but also a cultural, social and psychological context. The author stresses that the central concepts of Crawford and Mathews are the values, which they argue, consumers are seeking in their relationships with modern businesses: clarity, ease, certainty and trust.
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"Consider, for example, the common business practice of "high-low" pricing to sell new inventory at a higher price, and they radically discount it at sale prices later. The authors note that consumers began to become "suspicious" of this pricing strategy in the 1960s so that today: "The real problem with the traditional high-low method of pricing is that consumers simply don't trust it. They don't feel they're being rewarded at the lower sale price but, rather, that they're screwed at the higher regular price." The authors use this insight to explain the extraordinary popularity of the Every Day Low Price philosophy of the most successful retailer on the planet: Wal-mart."
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