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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Value-added Services"”.
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Value Added Services und deren Management im Krankenhaus
Identical services are difficult to position in a market economy. The health sector in the German speaking countries is more and more developing to a market, and the services are more or less identical, of unknown quality, since there is not the same tradition of quality assurance and management …
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An Empirical Investigation on the Effect of Value-Added Services on Consumer Adoption of Mobile Payment in the UK
… to enable consumers to pay for goods and services using their mobile devices. As an emerging payment method, m-payment is marketed as a secure and convenient alternative to traditional payment methods. Despite the purported advantages of m-payment, however, consumers in the UK and …
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The impact of international logistics parks on global supply chains
… the consolidation of operations and logistics services for global companies. In the beginning, logistics parks were limited to enabling companies to centralize their operations using shared warehousing and transportation infrastructures; however, these logistics parks now additionally offer a …
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Logistics clusters : prevalence and impact
… growing presence are identified: collaboration, value added services, upward mobility and job creation at different levels. Finally, using a quantitative approach this thesis analyzes two major effects of agglomeration on firms located within logistics clusters: more collaboration and the …
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Service creation combining programmable networks and open signalling technologies
… to come from content delivery and associated value added services, the mergers between various Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and content-creators being championed as the beginning of a new trend within these industries. Faced with a competitive market, network operators are increasingly …
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Venture capital y su valor añadido a los emprendedores: modelo de análisis
… of contributing, along with money, with value added services. Thus, we have developed a statistical model that allows evaluating what kind of added value by venture capital to startups has more impact on the performance of the financed company. In order to do this, an empirical study has …
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Third party logistics : an analysis of the feasibility and contexts of strategic relationships
… is the extent to which customers view 3PL services as pure-commodities to be re-bid. The trend towards commoditization has been one of the causes for current pricing pressures on the 3PLs. The 3PLs gearing towards "strategic partnerships" and the addition of Value-Added Services to their …
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Telecommunications for a deregulated power industry
… monitoring, automated meter reading, and value added services like home energy management systems and broadband access for its customers. Telecommunication options like power line communications (PLC) and satellites are fast replacing legacy telephone and microwave systems in the US.;The …
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Merchant differentiation through integrative negotiation in agent-mediated electronic commerce
… it away from price comparisons and toward value comparisons. Though price comparisons may be adequate for simple products (e.g., books and music), they are inadequate for facilitating transactions of complex products (e.g., computers and automobiles). Consumers often must consider qualities …
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An Intelligent Authentication Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Computing Environments
… humans interact with machines, physical spaces, services, everyday devices, and other humans. Ubiquitous computing envisions a world that features an abundance of embedded processors, wearable computers, smart consumer devices, sensors, and digital communication, which are all tightly coupled to …
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Automatically Extract Information from Web Documents
… information, such as lists of products and services. Extracting these structured data objects enables one to integrate data/information from multiple Web pages to provide value-added services, e.g., comparative shopping, meta-querying and search. Web content mining has thus become an area of …
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The value of monitoring in supply chains
… of data from these shipments. As new sensors are added to more and more packages, companies will now have increasingly fast access to even more data. However, how will logistics companies leverage this idea of big data to generate the most business value for their customers? Using a qualitative …
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Providing guaranteed QoS in the hose-modeled VPN
… are required to offer revenue-generating and value-added services instead of only providing bandwidth and access services. Virtual Private Network (VPN) is one of the most important value-added services for ISPs. The "classical" VPN service is provided by implementing layer 2 technologies, …
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Design and Implementation of Scalable High-Performance Network Functions
… to fulfill the increasing demand of value-added services. By leveraging SDN and NFV for SFC, it becomes possible to meet the demand fluctuation and construct a dynamic SFc. However, the integration of SDN with NFV requires packet header modifications, generates excessive network …
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Analysis of Japan's B2B public e-marketplaces
… respect traditional business practices; * offer value-added services that benefit customers; * offer off-line customer support as well as on-line services; * develop an effective alliance strategy. I believe these critical success factors are fairly universal, and could be equally useful in the …
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TV móvel no Brasil: análise do ambiente de negócios e fatores potenciais para o sucesso de serviços das operadoras de celular
… operators, which tries to get advantage through value added services in the current competitive environment. The goal of this dissertation is to find out what are the necessary factors for the mobile operators in Brazil to offer competitive TV services and to identify their weakness points. …
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National Patient Flow Framework: An Ontological Patient-oriented Redesign
… driven results that improve patient quality value added services, turning everyday healthcare acts into healthcare facts relevant to this study’s concept. Concluding, scientific contributions of this study include the discovery and redesign of the contemporary both conceptual and structural …
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A business plan for StartupChina / an incubator for Chinese E-commerce start-ups
… by an experienced team and professional services to lead them through the startup process and connect them with the venture capital community on the other side. StartupChina thereby serves the needs of three customers: seed round investors, Chinese entrepreneurs, and the international …
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Wireless Vehicular Communication Based Solution for Road Traffic Efficiency
… - Traffic Safety, Traffic Efficiency and Value-added Services (e.g. Infotainment/Business). Our work focuses on the provision of traffic efficiency services as we believe they offer an immediate benefit and can be adopted quickly by a large number of potential users. Satellite navigation …
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