The recession and changing demands from carriers will result in significant changes to vendors' skill sets. By Frank Fabricius, Peter Kjeldsen, Jouni Forsman and Caroline Jones Strategic Planning Assumptions By 2004, consolidation among telecommunications vendors will have reduced the current number of global companies by 20 percent (0.7 probability). Telecommunications vendors will be forced t...

BACKGROUND To measure and assess health outcomes and quality of life at the national level, large-scale surveys using multiple vendors to gather health information is becoming the norm. This study evaluates the ability of multiple survey vendors to gather and report data collected as part of the 1998 Medicare Health Outcomes Survey (HOS). METHOD Four hundred randomly sampled completed mailed ...

Past research has shown that most offshore IS outsourcing projects were failed. Communication and coordination problems caused by culture differences between clients and vendors are important reasons for the failures. The theory of boundary spanning capability provides a new theoretical perspective for research of coordination and communication mechanisms between clients and vendors in offshore...

In this study, some food vendors in Accra were surveyed to assess their knowledge in food hygiene and best food safety practices. Data on demographics, food safety knowledge and practices were collected from 50 food vendors using a 31question standardized survey tool. Street food vending was the main income provider for 84% of the vendors. Eighty Percent of the questionnaire respondents were fe...

Data was collected from food vendors in a poor resource community in Ghana, which showed that the vendors constituted an important source of oro-faecal transmission. Following this, the WHO five keys of safer food were utilized in an evidence based training programme for the vendors to improve their food handling practices. Impact assessment of the food safety training showed that 67.6% of the ...

BACKGROUND In South Asia, up to 20% of people ingesting pesticides for self-poisoning purchase the pesticide from a shop with the sole intention of self-harm. Individuals who are intoxicated with alcohol and/or non-farmers represent 72% of such high-risk individuals. We aimed to test the feasibility and acceptability of vendor-based restrictions on pesticide sales for such high-risk individuals...