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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"Service development"”.
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Understanding service design practices and contributions to new service development
Since two decades ago, Service Design as a design-led approach to service development and innovation has expanded its scope of interventions and contributions. It has been repositioning itself from a rendering activity for supporting the development of service concepts and structures to a …
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Integrating Extra-Functional Properties in Model-Driven Web Service Development
Web services provide a successful way to let distributed applications communicate, in a platform-independent and loosely coupled manner, providing the systems with great flexibility and easier maintenance. In this sense, academy and industry try to maintain every specific development issue in web …
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The pre-service development of teacher skill in reading questioning strategy
… that improvements can be effected in pre-service teachers' reading comprehension questioning. Results of the study also indicated that questioning strategy may be enhanced within the format of a reading methods course. It would appear appropriate to provide experiences similar to TASK:QS …
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The role of causation, effectuation and bricolage in new service development processes
… effectuation, and bricolage (CEB)—in new service development (NSD) processes within a new venture. To understand how entrepreneurial cognitive logics are used in the NSD process, I adopt a process research approach to study how service comes to be within a new venture in the healthcare …
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Data expertise and service development in geoscience data centers and academic libraries
… to manage large and complex data, design user services, and enable open access. One ramification is that research institutions are extending their services and staffing to address data management concerns. As more organizations extend their operations to research data, an understanding of how …
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The Effectiveness, Adoption and Application of New Service Development (NSD) Tools and Techniques
This thesis focuses on new service development (NSD) tools and techniques. It has three objectives. The first objective is to investigate the usage pattern and effectiveness of NSD tools based on an integrative marketing and operations perspective. The findings suggest that NSD tools are still …
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Resiliency and Selfless Service Development in Army ROTC Physical Training: A Qualitative Investigation
… “big Army” environment. Resiliency and selfless service development are seen as critical elements of leadership, yet little is known about the formal and informal experiences in ROTC PT that facilitate or hinder resiliency and selfless service during early career preparation. The overall purpose …
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The participation of stroke survivors in service development and research: an ethnographic study
… to involve patients and the public in health service development and medical research has been widely promoted in the United Kingdom on the grounds that this will improve the quality of services and research.<br/><br/>This thesis investigates how stroke survivors were involved in two …
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A psycho-social study of the experiences of young people leaving care in Romania : lessons for service development
… care in Romania, a field which is in its early developmental stage in literature, research and practice. A progressive legislative framework recently enacted (since January 2005) which acknowledges the need to support care leavers’ transition from care to independent living, created the momentum …
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A formative and process evaluation of a service development group: an analysis of the Waikato Hospital Board’s review of maternity services
… the Waikato Hospital Board’s Review of Maternity Services. An historical perspective of the Service Development Group (SDG) approach to health planning is presented together with information about the establishment of the SDG and review process. Nine objectives were proposed which were to: …
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEXT: INVESTIGATING IN-SERVICE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS FOR SYRIAN TEACHERS OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE DURING TIMES OF MILITARY CONFLICT
… is to research how teaching practices and in-service professional development of English language teachers’ in Syria have been affected during times of military conflict: what impact English language teachers in Syria perceive the professional development programs they are required to attend …
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Közösségi egészségélmény modell: egészségcélú együttműködések rendszerén alapuló szolgáltatásfejlesztés a gyakorlatban = The community health experience model: health transaction network-based service development in practice
… megfelel a Grönroos és Gummerus által leírt Service Logic-ban leírtaknak. Az egészségügyet szolgáltatói térként kezeli, amelyben csoportmunkára alapozott együttműködések járulnak hozzá a kokreációhoz és az orvos-biológiai mutatókkal mért egészégérték-teremtéshez. Az ügyfelekre egymással …
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Exploring service development to scaffold cross-disciplinary critical maker-learning in a higher education academic library makerspace : a case study through the lens of cultural-historical activity theory
… of a university academic library makerspace service supporting experiential maker-learning. Tensions and contradictions are analysed around cross-disciplinary needs, and the developing pragmatics of practice to support inclusive, sustainable maker-learning. The research goal was to address …
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Embedding risk management within new product and service development of an innovation and risk management framework and supporting risk processes, for effective risk mitigation : an action research study within the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Sector
… the chances of delivering improved goods and services. A risk management approach is well suited to address the challenge of failure, as it focuses not only on the negative impact of risks but also on the opportunities they present. It aligns these with the strategic objectives of the …
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Value-Based Connected Autonomous Vehicles Business Modeling
… were made for this purpose. Also, to reduce service development risks, business owners will need to guarantee alignment and reduce service development time and cost. In this research a methodology has been suggested to use the VDML based Value Management Platform (VMP) to assist the road …
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Ringing in the rain : an agent based weather warning system
… uses GPS-enabled cell phones to build a mobile service development framework. The goal of this framework is to build mobile services to deliver timely changes in environmental information that could impact a user's current or future activities. A weather warning system for bicycle riders is …
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Skyllian : a flexible layer II solution for blockchain systems
… underlying fundamental blockchain and support service development. Previous solutions primarily focused on enhancing computational speed through the blockchain or layer II solutions. This thesis introduces Skyllian, an architecture framework abstracting out the details of the underlying …
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Clinical psychology and substance misuse: a portfolio of study, practice and research
… presents aspects of my continuing professional development, in terms of clinical interest, research and service development. Since obtaining my BPS Diploma in clinical psychology in 1988,1 have worked in the area of alcohol misuse, in psychology services in genito-urinary medicine and HIV, and …
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A study of the fundamental psychological needs of young people in receipt of psychological therapy
… their future lives. Some implications for future service development are offered in the discussion with a view to highlight what the participants report as both helpful and essential aspects of their psychological treatment. This paper was prepared for submission to Clinical Psychology and …
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