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  2. Service (business) - Wikipedia

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    Service (business) Business services are a recognisable subset of economic services, and share their characteristics. The essential difference is that businesses are concerned about the building of service systems in order to deliver value to their customers and to act in the roles of service provider and service consumer. [1]

  3. Service industries - Wikipedia

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    Some service industries, including transportation, wholesale trade and retail trade are part of the supply chain delivering goods produced in the agricultural and manufacturing sectors to final consumers. Other services are provided directly to consumers. These include health care, education, information services, legal services, financial ...

  4. Service economy - Wikipedia

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    Service economy can refer to one or both of two recent economic developments: The increased importance of the service sector in industrialized economies. The current list of Fortune 500 companies contains more service companies and fewer manufacturers than in previous decades. The relative importance of service in a product offering.

  5. Goods and services - Wikipedia

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    Goods are items that are usually (but not always) tangible, such as pens or apples. Services are activities provided by other people, such as teachers or barbers. Taken together, it is the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services which underpins all economic activity and trade. According to economic theory, consumption of ...

  6. Service (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Service (economics) A restaurant waiter is an example of a service-related occupation. A service is an act or use for which a consumer, company, or government is willing to pay. [1] Examples include work done by barbers, doctors, lawyers, mechanics, banks, insurance companies, and so on.

  7. Business - Wikipedia

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    Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services). [1][2][3][4] It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for profit." [5]

  8. Corporate services - Wikipedia

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    Corporate services or business services are activities which combine or consolidate certain enterprise -wide needed support services, provided based on specialized knowledge, best practices, and technology to serve internal (and sometimes external) customers and business partners. The term corporate services providers (CSPs) is also used.

  9. Service management - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Service management in the manufacturing context, is integrated into supply chain management as the intersection between the actual sales and the customer point of view. The aim of high-performance service management is to optimize the service-intensive supply chains, which are usually more complex than the typical finished-goods supply ...