{"id":473,"date":"2014-02-18T18:56:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T18:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/?page_id=473"},"modified":"2015-03-02T14:36:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T14:36:34","slug":"business-solution","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/?page_id=473","title":{"rendered":"Business solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-473 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='473' data-nonce='3e49a96320' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-473 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-473 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div><p>A solution<span style=\"color: #c0c0c0; font-size: x-small;\"> <sup>[1]<\/sup><\/span> is :<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A means of solving a problem or dealing with a difficult situation.<\/li>\n<li>The correct answer to a puzzle.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Products or services designed to meet a particular need<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So by extension a <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">business solution<\/span> is composed of products <span style=\"color: #c0c0c0; font-size: x-small;\"><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/span> and\/or services <span style=\"color: #c0c0c0; font-size: x-small;\"><sup>[4]<\/sup><\/span> addressing business needs\u00a0<span style=\"color: #c0c0c0; font-size: x-small;\"><sup>[11]<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">.\u00a0<\/span>Depending on the business context, business solutions are composed in variable proportions of products and services; sometimes only products, sometimes only services.<\/p>\n<p>The ITIL\u00ae framework <span style=\"color: #c0c0c0; font-size: x-small;\"><sup>[13]<\/sup><\/span> defines &#8220;service&#8221; <span style=\"color: #c0c0c0; font-size: x-small;\"><sup>[8]<\/sup><\/span> a different way as\u00a0&#8220;a<em>\u00a0means of delivering value to Customers by facilitating Outcomes\u00a0Customers want to achieve without the ownership of specific Costs and\u00a0Risks\u00a0<\/em>&#8220;. According to this definition the distinction between product and service as commonly understood by a non IT literate audience does no longer exist. Both definitions are valid depending on the context.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">References:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11px; color: #808080;\">[1] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/english\/solution?q=solution\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">solution,\u00a0oxford dictionaries<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 11px; color: #808080;\"> [2] <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Product_(business)\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">product, wikipedia<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 11px; color: #808080;\"> [3] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/product\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">product,\u00a0merriam-webster<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 11px; color: #808080;\"> [4] <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Service_(economics)\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">service (economics), wikipedia<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 11px; color: #808080;\"> [5] <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Service_(economics)#Characteristics\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">service (economics) characteristics, wikipedia<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 11px; color: #808080;\"> [6] <a href=\"systems architecture)\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">service (systems architecture), wikipedia<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 11px; color: #808080;\"> [7] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/english\/service\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">service, oxford dictionaries<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 11px;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">[8]\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itil-officialsite.com\/nmsruntime\/saveasdialog.aspx?lID=1180&amp;sID=242\" target=\"_blank\">service, ITIL\u00ae glossary of terms<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 11px; color: #808080;\">[9] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/business\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">business, merriam-webster<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 11px; color: #808080;\"> [10] <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Business\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">business, wikipedia<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; color: #808080;\">[11]\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/business-english\/need\" target=\"_blank\">business need, cambridge dictionaries online<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 11px; color: #808080;\">[12]\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Business_requirements\" target=\"_blank\">Business requirement, wikipedia<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 11px; color: #808080;\"> [13] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itil-officialsite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">ITIL\u00ae official website<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0 A solution [1] is : A means of solving a problem or dealing with a difficult situation. The correct answer to a puzzle. Products or services designed to meet a particular need. So by extension a business solution is composed of products [2] and\/or services [4] addressing business needs\u00a0[11]\u00a0.\u00a0Depending on the business context, business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-473","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":62,"href":"https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/473\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michelgoes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}