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Subject: Variants to common corporate unit names
Category: Business and Money
Asked by: bill43-ga
List Price: $25.00
Posted: 05 Mar 2004 13:55 PST
Expires: 04 Apr 2004 14:55 PDT
Question ID: 313867
What do companies name their "strategic services" or "strategic
consulting" units, other than those two terms?

Request for Question Clarification by aht-ga on 05 Mar 2004 18:09 PST
bill43-ga:

How many different names are you looking for, as a minimum? That will
help define the research.

Thanks,

aht-ga
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Request for Question Clarification by aht-ga on 05 Mar 2004 18:35 PST
As well, can you clarify that you are inquiring about the units within
a corporation, as opposed to units of a consulting firm that offers
services to corporations?

Thanks,

aht-ga
Google Answers Researcher

Clarification of Question by bill43-ga on 06 Mar 2004 07:33 PST
Here's the objective: Our company has a Strategic Services unit, which
I head. We want to reflect the fact that we are changing as a unit -
adding services and employees - by altering the name but somehow
retain the "strategic" part for branding purposes.  I couldn't come up
with anything decent so tried finding out what other companies use for
their strategic services units. I got nothing but Strategic Services
and Strategic Consulting Services. Examples of new possibilities:
Strategic Partnership Services, Strategic Advancement Services,
Strategic Development Services. IBM uses Global Services. We provide
technology services to higher education.  Hope this helps.
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Subject: Re: Variants to common corporate unit names
From: scoobiesnack-ga on 29 Mar 2004 23:28 PST
 
Basically there are many names which reflect the idea you are looking
for. Infact, they often vary in the context that you use. Such as when
providing services to a company in the form of a partnership, they
might call it a strategic alliance, or simply a strategic partnership,
unless there is no discrimination as to who they ally with, then the
word "strategic" is dropped because if you take for example, Microsoft
calling everyone who buys windows a "Strategic customer" then it's
easy to say that because there are millions who have, it isn't really
strategic in the sense you are looking for because they aren't
discriminatively providing a better level of customer/organization
interaction for the same product/service.

Generally, when you say Strategic Services people might think it is
similar to the role of Chief Information Officer, which you might say
would be the head CIA agent of the company. Especially since using
that title, and if you have an office people might think it referrs to
something from the World War II era, which was the Offices of
Strategic Services (OSS) which was the former organization that later
became the Central Intelligence Agency.

Other names I've heard which seem to put thought into that delimma
might include Strategic Assistance Division, Strategic Aid, or
something along those lines.

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