activities offered for sale to customers, (advice, transport, banking, insurance, restaurants, hotel rooms, etc.)
Intangible product; the work performed by one person for another.
Intangible items for purchase, such as haircuts or tax advice, that provide customer satisfaction without the ownership of a tangible item.
a small company set up originally to provide advice and administrative support to External Quality Assessment schemes operating in the field of histopathology
A "performance" product i.e. a product which is not a good and which involves mostly the provision of assistance, advice or other help to the customer. Examples include accounting, legal services, architectural services, and engineering.
Intangible goods that are often produced and consumed at the same time. An example is education: students consume a lesson- an educational service- at the same time a teacher produces it. The service sector of the economy includes hotels, restaurants, and wholesale and retail trade; transport, storage, and communications; financing, insurance, real estate, and business services; community and social services (such as education and health care); and personal services.
Physically intangible actions that can be performed to satisfy economic wants, including but not limited to medical care, dental care, haircuts, education, police protection, fire protection, and national defense
Activities necessary for the management of organisations, systems, products and processes (broadly defined), including policy advice. Activities include the provision of technical support (e.g. advice, opinion), which resulted in some substantive outcome (e.g. a major problem resolved). A range of activities, from a major one-off assistance to regular on-going help support, applied (e.g. giving technical advice to support an organisation's policy or strategic objectives).
Products, such as an airline flight or insurance policy, that are intangible or at least substantially so. If totally intangible, they are exchanged directly from producer to user, cannot be transported or stored and are instantly perishable. Service delivery usually involves customer participation in some important way, cannot be sold in the sense of ownership transfer, and have no title.