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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xiii, 181 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-130). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

The Thesis is conducted based on analysis of a business shared service centre, all factors to consider before the establishment, its scope, model, and the most important is to see advantages as well as to realize the shortcomings of this kind of business model. The country which is analyzed is the Czech Republic; more particular is the city of Prague; and the company is SAP Business Service Centre of Europe (BSCE). In this Thesis, first of all, the PEST (Political, Economic, Social and Technology) environmental analysis has been conducted. The work continues with the SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis of the company SAP AG, from which, we can see that opening a SAP BSCE is a part of SAP strategy which supposes to benefit the company. In order to establish the BSCE, the SAP management board has to consider the factors such as Organization, People, Processes and IT Infrastructure. After analyzing approximately 20 cities in Europe, SAP has chosen Prague as the best mix of quality and costs factors. SAP BSCE covers the functions of Human Resource and Finance and Administration, which provide services to internal and external customers of many countries in Europe, Middle East, and Africa. SAP BSCE has brought back many advantages such as cost-savings, high quality service, business availability and flexibility, and business transparency and legal compliance. On the other hand, there are still many short-comings, such as the high turn-over rate of staff, difficulties in harmonization and standardization of processes and IT infrastructure, and how to prove the quality of service. Despite these challenges, SAP BSCE has put efforts into trying to overcome these problems. At the end of the Thesis, as per analysis of SAP financial results of business activities during the crisis, it is proven the setting up a shared service centre was a good decision of SAP and it paid off with the contribution to help SAP overcome the impacts of crisis.

The goal of the submitted thesis is to analyze the position of Cenkonzult Tábor s.r.o. at appraisals, calculations, engineering, accounting and tax advisory services market, which the company provide. The first part of the thesis is devoted to a presentation of the theoretical description of processing a business plan and processing external, internal analysis and financial analysis. The practical part of the thesis is focused on the synthesis theoretical part. I analyzed the competitive ability of the company on the markets of providing services, advantages and competitive advantages. The strengths and opportunities of Cenkonzult Tábor s.r.o. are analyzed in the thesis. I am dealing here with the analyzed revenues and costs separated by the individual activities of the organization and financial analyses in past years.

Thesis (MBA.) -- University of Limpopo, 2017 / The research is focused on outsourcing versus in-house staff in the case of the University of Limpopo. Since the outsourcing path was adopted in 2002, no formal study was instituted by UL to ascertain whether the decision had positive effects on the university’s financial status and former employees’ welfare. One of the impediments that posed a real threat to the UL’s outsourcing agenda was the lack of a guiding document to adequately direct the negotiation process. Lack of feedback and lack of a vibrant communication plan as the main variables that triggered a climate of mistrust between the PCS and stakeholders were identified. This study seeks to determine which option, namely outsourcing versus in-house staff complement will be the most advantageous to UL. The idea taken by the UL in 2002 to outsource what was perceived as non-core operations was an idea that was never easy to implement and ultimately failed to achieve its originally intended purpose. This study opted for the qualitative method because it relied on the views of UL’s former employees who were directly affected by the university’s 2002 outsourcing arrangement. The population of this study consisted of one hundred and fifty (150) people comprising of UL’s in-house employees in the UL. The process of selecting the participants was based on the purposive sampling method. The sample size for this study was 38 of the outsourced operational support staff From the results obtained from the study, a conclusion was drawn that the outsourcing arrangement did not provide any significant benefit to any of the affected parties. The recommendations on measures to improve the effectiveness of UL’s outsourcing arrangement were made and described in detail in chapter five of this study. Recommendations for further studies were also made in chapter five as being inevitable because there is no research that is complete in itself

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2008. / "Graduate Program in Computer Science." Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-113).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 190-205). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 190-205). Also available on the Internet.

The trends in the scope of services raise the necessity to substantially increase the efficiency of new services development as one of the most significant factors of competitive advantage. The treatment of services as a subset, distinguished on the basis of certain features provide preconditions for finding the most efficient new service development solutions by using the methodological potential intended for goods which is substantially greater than the one intended directly to the services. Its critical assessment and consideration of the exclusive features of services resulted in the design of new services development conception which defined the set of implementation action, their content, sequence and interrelationship. The conception of flexible structure provided the opportunity to bypass those stages of new service development which contained work lacking purposefulness taking into consideration a specific situation and first of all the nature of the service and company and also to perform other simultaneous work, planned in other stages. 2. In search of viable solutions on how to expand the spectrum of possibilities and to better satisfy the needs of consumers each service company is to decide which development direction is more purposeful: the development of new services or the increase in the scope of sales of existing services. A model of six interrelated components was suggested for the substantiation of service company development direction; the model allows... [to full text] / Disertaciją sudaro įvadas, penkios probleminės dalys, išvados ir siūlymai, keturi priedai. Darbe pateikta 16 paveikslų, 8 lentelės ir 4 priedai. Buvo naudotasi 162 literatūros šaltiniais. Pirmoje dalyje įvairių tyrėjų siulomu nauj paslaugų diegimo ir naujų produktų kūrimo modelių sintezės pagrindu suformuota originali naujų paslaugų kūrimo ir diegimo koncepcija. Antroje dalyje pateikti trys modeliai. Naujų paslaugų diegimo tikslingumo pagrindimo modelis sudarytas iš nuosekliai išdėstytų funkcinių komponentų, skirtų įvairių verslo plėtros krypčių tikslingumui vertinti, taikant kelis skirtingus metodus grįstus kiekybine analize. Idėjų generavimo modelio akcentas yra idėjų generavimo būdo pasirinkimas, atsižvelgiant į naujovių diegimo patirtį ir įmonės finansinį potencialą. Idėjų vertinimo modelyje numatytas idėjų diferencijavimas argumentuojamas galimybe sumažinti sąnaudas skirtingų kategorijų idėjas vertinant pagal skirtingo detalumo schemas, sprendimo objektyvumui didinti numatyta vertinimo rezultatų sintezė. Trečioje dalyje aprašyti du parengti modeliai. Naujų paslaugų koncepcijos galimybėms vertinti pasiūlytas trijų alternatyvų su skirtingais kriterijų rinkiniais modelis. Tinkamiausia alternatyva parenkama pagal idėj šaltinio pobūdį ir koncepcijos techninį-technologin sudėtinguma. Technologijos tinkamumui nustatyti skirtas modelis grindžiamas daugiakriteriniu vertinimu. Ketvirtoje dalyje pasiulyti naujų paslaugų komercializavimo ir įdiegimo vertinimo modeliai... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]

As the airline industry continues to rapidly expand and evolve, today's airlines leaders are faced with the challenge of balancing long term strategies with short term solutions. Customer satisfaction has become significantly important for airline operations and as a result service quality has also gained paramount importance in this sector. Lean's customer-focused theme for improving service quality has gained a momentum in services, however, Lean deployment within the airline service sector is generally a long way behind manufacturing and health services. These factors have motivated research into investigating Lean phenomena within a leading UK airline company. For quantitative and qualitative data analysis, 9 cases were collected from 3 internal departments of the airline company, 35 semi-structured interviews were held, and 220 survey questionnaires were circulated of which 180 were returned. Within-case and cross-case analysis techniques were applied and, to develop a framework and 5 key relationships were identified. This study’s contribution is in the area of Quality Management as it: (a) highlights the role of ‘customer value’ and ‘engagement value’ in the domain of technical and functional service quality attributes; (b) maps cost-quality-delivery relationships through linking Lean improvements to its results; and (c) constructs an ‘outcome-driven’ framework from the findings. Ultimately, this research provides knowledge and understanding of how an airline company deploys Lean as business strategy to improve their service quality. The novelty of the research in terms of deliverables is two-fold: firstly, it establishes framework linking Lean improvement initiatives to its results, which extends to the sustainability, commitment, future profitability and market share characteristics of improvement results; and secondly, it provides a tool, which could assist key decision makers in evaluating the results of the Lean initiative to provide better understanding for Lean deployment. Key words: Lean services; business improvement strategy; service quality improvements; quality management; airline services; customer satisfaction; employee satisfaction.