Find Secrets to Starting & Running Your Own Bookkeeping Business by Cynthia Sherwood in Paperback and other formats in Business & Economics > Bookkeeping.

The service sector has dominated advanced economies for years. In many countries, it accounts for more than 70% of gross domestic product, and approximately the same percentage of all employees work in this sector. To reflect the economic relevance of the service sector, services science must be established as an academic discipline. But the path in pursuit of this goal is riddled with challenges, especially in the fields of services research, service-oriented education and service-related collaborations. This book includes detailed articles and short statements on each field, written by academics and experts. They explain which challenges need to be met by research and academic training in the services community of the 21st century. The contributions contained in this book reflect the content of presentations and statements given at the first German Services Science Conference.

Im Jahrbuch 2002 beschäftigen sich renommierte Autoren mit Fragen aus dem folgenden Problembereich: Wie kann die komplexe Aufgabe der Gestaltung elektronischer Services im Dienstleistungsbereich optimal gelöst werden? Welches sind die Besonderheiten elektronischer Services? Wie kann eine Verbindung elektronischer mit konventionellen Services zu Leistungsbündeln erfolgen? Welches sind Faktoren, die den Grad der Standardisierung vs. Individualisierung bestimmen? Wie können elektronische Services vermarktet werden und welche Rolle spielt der Kundenkontakt-Mitarbeiter? Wie kann ein Kapazitätsmanagement elektronischer Services gestaltet werden? U.a.m. Neben den Forschungsbeiträgen beinhaltet das Jahrbuch einen umfangreichen Service-Teil mit Literaturangaben, Adressen, Datenbanken, Websites, Forschungsstellen u.a.m. zum Dienstleistungsmanagement.

This open access book is an outcome of several years of research, practice, and teaching experience of the authors on the challenges that underpin the successful switch to services for manufacturing firms. Ideal for a student as well as a practitioner, the book describes the industrial services ecosystem, the barriers and challenges, and a roadmap for building service excellence. Curated cases are used to describe the current approaches in practice to overcome the barriers. The book also provides several tools, each with a short introduction, that the authors have used successfully in projects to help overcome the servitization barriers. Many of these tools are from management, design thinking, or service design. The service excellence roadmap is based on the development methodology and helps current and future business leaders to create their own individual roadmaps.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Exploring Service Science (IESS), held in Bucharest, Romania, in May 2016. Service science constitutes an interdisciplinary approach to systematic innovation in service systems, integrating managerial, social, legal, and engineering aspects to address the theoretical and practical challenges of the service industry and its economy. The 45 full papers and 13 short papers accepted for IESS were selected from 119 submissions. The papers consider the topics service exploration theories and processes; modeling service requirements and management of business processes; value co-creation through knowledge management and user-centric services; service design methodologies and patterns; service innovation and strategy; IT-based service engineering; servitization in sustainable manufacturing; product-service systems; business software services and data-driven service design; web service design and service-oriented agents; IoT and mobile apps for public transport service management; e-health services and medical data interoperability; and service and IT-oriented learning and education systems.