Title :
Enabling the enabler: Information technology and the services sector
Author :
Murrell, Stephen J. ; Berg, Daniel ; Einspruch, Norman G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
fDate :
June 30 2008-July 2 2008
Abstract :
The services sector, providing eighty percent of domestic employment and GDP, has sustained dramatic growth in size and significance in the last three decades. This growth has in major part been enabled by application of the Information Technology (IT) discipline. Data Surface Mining (DSM) was applied to a recent compilation of 100 major IT companies. It was found that approximately half of these companies, the enablers, are themselves in the Goods Sector. As such, the Goods Sector is a major enabler of the Services Sector.
Keywords :
DP industry; data mining; economic indicators; service industries; GDP; IT companies; data surface mining; domestic employment; goods sector; information technology; services sector; Business; Costs; Data mining; Economic indicators; Employment; Information processing; Information technology; Manufacturing; Systems engineering and theory; Technology management; Goods sector; information technology; services sector; technology management;
Conference_Titel :
Service Systems and Service Management, 2008 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1671-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1672-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICSSSM.2008.4598511
