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Data center Electrical engineering infrastructure design

1 These designs should dovetail to energy standards and best practices

while also meeting business objectives. Electrical configurations should be

optimized and operationally compatible with the data center user’s capabilities.

Modern electrical design is modular and scalable, and is available for low and medium voltage requirements as

well as DC (direct current).

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Advertising Global advertising

1 For global advertisers, there are four, potentially competing, business

objectives that must be balanced when developing worldwide advertising:

building a brand while speaking with one voice, developing economies of

scale in the creative process, maximising local effectiveness of ads,

and increasing the company’s speed of implementation

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Governance, risk management, and compliance Basic concepts

1 Risk management is the set of processes through which

management identifies, analyzes, and, where necessary, responds appropriately to risks that might adversely affect realization of the organization's business objectives

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Business process Overview

1 A business process begins with a mission objective and ends with

achievement of the business objective. Process-oriented

organizations break down the barriers of structural departments and try to avoid functional silos.

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Capability Maturity Model Integration CMMI representation

1 The continuous representation is designed to allow the user to focus on the specific processes that are

considered important for the organization's immediate business objectives, or those to which the

organization assigns a high degree of risks

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Corporate identity

1 A corporate identity is the overall image of a corporation or firm or business in the

minds of diverse publics, such as customers and investors and employees. It is a

primary task of the corporate communications department to maintain and build this identity to accord with and

facilitate the attainment of business objectives. It is usually visibly manifested

by way of branding and the use of trademarks.

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Brand licensing - Reasons for licensing

1 The licensing contract forces the licensee to achieve certain sales

targets and royalties; therefore, the goal of the licensee is to quickly meet their business objectives, thereby achieving their contract

obligations

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Software quality - Identifying critical programming errors

1 These are quite often technology-related and depend heavily on the context, business objectives and

risks. Some may consider respect for naming conventions while others – those preparing the ground for a

knowledge transfer for example – will consider it as absolutely critical.

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Industrial and organizational psychology - Organizational citizenship behavior

1 Civic virtue differs from other OCBs because the target of the behavior is the group or organization as a whole, rather than an individual coworker. Civic virtue

OCBs include being a good representative of the organization and supporting the organization, especially in its efforts

outside of its major business objectives. Examples of civic virtue OCBs are

participating in charitable functions held by the organization and defending or

otherwise speaking well of the organization.

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Customer engagement - Customer engagement as consumer behaviour

1 CE behaviour became prominent with the advent of the social phenomenon of

online CE. Creating and stimulating customer engagement behaviour has

recently become an explicit aim of both profit and non-profit organisations in

the belief that engaging target customers to a high degree is

conducive to furthering business objectives.

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Information security - Risk management

1 The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Review Manual 2006

provides the following definition of risk management: "Risk management is the process of identifying vulnerabilities and

threats to the information resources used by an organization in achieving

business objectives, and deciding what countermeasures, if any, to take in

reducing risk to an acceptable level, based on the value of the information

resource to the organization."

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View model - RM-ODP views

1 the enterprise viewpoint, which is concerned with the purpose and

behaviors of the system as it relates to the business objective and the

business processes of the organization

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Technology roadmap - Further reading

1 Phaal, R., Farrukh, C. and Probert, D. (2001). Technology Roadmapping:

linking technology resources to business objectives. Centre for

Technology Management, University of Cambridge. Further information:

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Marketing activation

1 Depending on the business objective, two types of marketing activation

can be used as part of a marketing strategy.

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IT risk - IT risk management

1 The CISA Review Manual 2006 provides the following definition of risk

management: "Risk management is the process of identifying vulnerabilities

and threats to the information resources used by an organization in achieving business objectives, and

deciding what countermeasures, if any, to take in reducing risk to an

acceptable level, based on the value of the information resource to the

organization."

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Information technology controls

1 In business and accounting, information technology controls (or IT controls) are specific activities performed by persons or systems designed to ensure that business

objectives are met

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Risk IT - Risk IT principles

1 always align with business objectives

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Risk IT - Risk scenarios

1 a top-down approach from the overall business objectives to the most likely risk scenarios that can

impact them.

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IT risk management - Risk management as part of enterprise risk management

1 According to Risk It framework by ISACA, IT risk is transversal to all four

categories. The IT risk should be managed in the framework of Enterprise risk management: Risk appetite and Risk sensitivity of the whole enterprise should guide the IT risk management process.

ERM should provide the context and business objectives to IT risk

management

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IT Service Management Forum - itSMF New Zealand (NZ)

1 In recent years, defined process-based service management frameworks have been the foundation upon which many organisations have improved IT Service

Delivery, Governance and Risk Management. These are designed to

create operational efficiencies, improve service levels, reduce the costs of

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Information Technology Infrastructure Library - Application management

1 ITIL application management encompasses a set of best practices

proposed to improve the overall quality of IT software development

and support through the life-cycle of software development projects, with particular attention to gathering and

defining requirements that meet business objectives.

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CMMI Version 1.3 - Benefits

1 Your organization's activities are explicitly linked to your business objectives.

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Dynamic systems development method - Principles

1 :* Evaluate continuing project viability based on

the business objectives

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Dynamic systems development method - Core Techniques of DSDM

1 Visionary The one who has the responsibility to initialise the project by ensuring that essential requirements are found early on. Visionary has the

most accurate perception of the business objectives of the system and

the project. Another task is to supervise and keep the development

process in the right track.

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Risk analysis (engineering) - Risk analysis and Information security

1 The risk evaluation of the Information technology environment has been

the subject of some methodologies; Information security is a science that

based itself on the evaluation and management of security risk,

regarding the information used by organization to pursue their business

objectives

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Disaster recovery and business continuity auditing

1 Given ever-changing business objectives, one common need in

disaster recovery is to perform an audit of the disaster recovery capacity of an organization

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Project portfolio management - Business Drivers for EPPM

1 Ensure informed decisions and governance: by bringing together all

project collaborators, data points, and processes in a single, integrated

solution, a unified view of project, program, and portfolio status can be

achieved within a framework of rigorous control and governance to ensure all

projects consistently adhere to business objectives.

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Product management

1 For example, product managers often translate business objectives set for a product by Marketing or

Sales into engineering requirements

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Software requirements - Validation

1 Validation involves techniques to confirm that the correct set of

requirements has been specified to build a solution that satisfies the

project's business objectives.

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Risk appetite - Levels of risk appetite

1 Below are examples of broad approaches to setting risk appetite

that a business may adopt to ensure a response to risk that is

proportionate given their business objectives.

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Information security management system - Critical success factors for ISMS

1 have security objectives and activities be based on business

objectives and requirements and led by business management;

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The Open Group - Collaboration services

1 They assist organizations with setting business objectives, strategy and

procurement, and also provide certification and test development

services

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Business process reengineering

1 Re-engineering emphasized a Holism|holistic focus on business

objectives and how processes related to them, encouraging full-scale

recreation of processes rather than iterative optimization of

subprocesses.

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Business process reengineering - BPR success failure factors

1 It can also potentially create substantial improvements in quality, customer service, or other business

objectives

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Business process reengineering - Business needs analysis

1 The business needs analysis also helps in relating the BPR project

goals back to key business objectives and the overall strategic direction for

the organization

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Advertisements - Global advertising

1 For Global marketing|global advertisers, there are four, potentially competing,

business objectives that must be balanced when developing worldwide

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General manager - Hotels

1 Common duties of a General Manager include but are not limited to hiring and

management of an executive team consisting of individual department heads

that oversee various hotel departments and functions, budgeting and financial

management, creating and enforcing hotel business objectives and goals, project

management, handling of emergencies and other major issues involving guests,

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Request for proposal

1 The RFP presents preliminary requirements for the commodity or service, and may dictate to varying

degrees the exact structure and format of the supplier's response. Effective RFPs

typically reflect the strategy and short/long-term business objectives, providing detailed insight upon which

suppliers will be able to offer a matching perspective.

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Indirect procurement - Overview

1 * Senior executives and Board members acknowledge the value of the supply chain in light of business

objectives.

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Business Service Management

1 'Business service management' ('BSM') is an approach used to manage

business-aligned IT services. A BSM philosophy promotes a customer-

centric and business-focused approach to Service Management, aligning

business objectives and priorities with IT or ICT from strategy through to

operations and continual improvement.

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Business Service Management

1 Advocates of BSM often use it to support a cultural change from one which is very technology-focused to a position which understands and

focuses on business objectives and benefits

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Business Service Management

1 Based on industry best/good practice, standards, guidance and

methodologies such as ITIL and ISO/IEC 20000, a BSM approach can ensure ICT departments and Service Providers operate in a more efficient

and effective manner to underpin business objectives.

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Process improvement - Business leaders

1 Senior leaders (corporate) are responsible for defining the customer and business objectives which an organization

needs to achieve to be successful. This process includes overseeing the

development of the organization's Mission statement|mission, vision (goal),

and corporate values|values. These persons are accountable for meeting customer and business objectives.

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Process improvement - Business leaders

1 Lower leader-levels (business unit and functional) are responsible for

translating senior leaders' business objectives into business objectives that

make sense for their level and that support the accomplishment of the senior leaders' business objectives. These persons are accountable for

meeting business unit and functional objectives.

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Process improvement - Business leaders

1 The Business Leaders establish business performance metrics to

measure the business’s capability to meet these business objectives

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Process improvement - Business leaders

1 The business leaders periodically analyze the business performance

data and use it to visualize the business’s capability to meet business objectives over time

(performance trends), compare actual performance against

performance targets, and identify performance issues.

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Organizational psychology - Organizational citizenship behavior

1 * Civic virtueCivic virtue differs from other OCBs because the target of the behavior is

the group or organization as a whole, rather than an individual coworker. Civic

virtue OCBs include being a good representative of the organization and

supporting the organization, especially in its efforts outside of its major business

objectives. Examples of civic virtue OCBs are participating in charitable functions

held by the organization and defending or otherwise speaking well of the

organization.

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Legal governance, risk management, and compliance - Legal risk management

1 August 1998.] In an organizational setting, risk management refers to

the process by which an organization sets the risk tolerance, identifies potential risks and prioritizes the tolerance for risk based on the

organization’s business objectives, and manages and mitigates risks

throughout the organization.

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Design management - Managing product aesthetics and corporate design (early contributions)

1 Early contributions to design management show how different design disciplines were coordinated to achieve business objectives at a corporate level,

and demonstrate the early understanding of design as a competitive force. In that context, design was merely understood as an aesthetic function, and

the management of design was at the level of project planning.

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Design management - Managing product aesthetics and corporate design (early contributions)

1 The practice of managing design to achieve a business objective was first documented in

1907

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Enterprise relationship management - Velox framework

1 * Aligning and leveraging new and existing business relationships to business objectives

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Industrial organization - Subareas

1 :[http://www.dictionaryofeconomics.com/search_results?

q=field=contentedition=alltopicid=L2 JEL: L2] – Firm Objectives, Organization, and

Behavior[http://www.dictionaryofeconomics.com/search_results?

q=field=contentedition=alltopicid=L20 JEL: L20] –

General[http://www.dictionaryofeconomics.com/search_results?

q=field=contentedition=alltopicid=L21 JEL: L21] – Business Objectives of the Firm

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Chief human resources officer - How CHROs describe their job

1 Other leading CHROs emphasize additional aspects of HR leadership, such as

delivering results with a global team – a major challenge identified by Hugh

Mitchell, CHRO for Royal Dutch Shell – and developing and communicating an

employee value proposition that will differentiate the company in its efforts to

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Software modernization - Modernization Risk Management

1 * RMM (Risk-Managed Modernization, Seacord et al., 2003) is a new,

general software modernization management approach taking risks

(and both technological and business objectives) explicitly into account.

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Service delivery platform

1 The business objective of implementing the SDP is to enable rapid development and deployment

of new converged multimedia services, from basic Plain old

telephone service|POTS phone services to complex audio/video

conferencing for multiplayer games (MPGs).

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Glossary of project management - V

1 * 'Virtual Design and Construction' (VDC) is the use of integrated multi-disciplinary performance models of

design-construction projects, including the Product (i.e., facilities), Work Processes and Organization of the design - construction - operation team in order to support explicit and

public business objectives.

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Recovery time objective

1 The O in RTO stands for Business objectives|objective, not mandate. In reality, tactics are often selected that will not meet the RTO. In this

instance, the RTO will not be met but should still remain an objective of

future strategy revision.

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Website wireframe

1 The purpose is usually being informed by a business objective and a creative idea

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Dynamic systems development method - Roles in DSDM

1 * 'Visionary' The one who has the responsibility to initialise the project by ensuring that essential requirements are found early on. Visionary has the

most accurate perception of the business objectives of the system and

the project. Another task is to supervise and keep the development

process in the right track.

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Portable Modular Data Center - Portability

1 The Portable Modular Data Center loaded with computer equipment can be

transported using standard shipping methods. The PMDC is weather resistant

and insulated, and can be placed in environments like tundra or the desert.

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IT consulting

1 'Information technology consulting' (also called 'IT consulting, computer consultancy, computing consultancy, technology consulting, business and technology services' or 'IT advisory')

is a field that focuses on advising businesses on how best to use

information technology to meet their business objectives

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Information security policies - Risk management

1 The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Review Manual 2006 provides the following definition of risk management:

Risk management is the process of identifying vulnerability (computing)|

vulnerabilities and threat (computer)|threats to the information resources used by an

organization in achieving business objectives, and deciding what Countermeasure (computer)|

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List of project management topics - Project management by domain

1 ** Virtual Design and Construction - (VDC) is the use of integrated multi-disciplinary performance models of

design-construction projects, including the Product (i.e., facilities), Work Processes and Organization of the design - construction - operation team in order to support explicit and

public business objectives.

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TMAP/TMap - History

1 The first method was created in 1995 and written by Martin Pol, Ruud Teunissen en

Erik van Veenendaal. At the end of 2006 a new version was published called TMap

Next written by other authors (Tim Koomen, Michiel Vroon, Leo van der Aalst Bart

Broekman). The main reason for this new version was the aim to create a more

process focussed description of the test process and put more emphasis on the

business objectives as a guidance for the testing process.

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Lean IT - COBIT

1 It provides managers, auditors, and IT users a set of metrics, processes,

and best practices to assist in maximizing the benefits derived through the use of IT, achieving

compliance with regulations such as Sarbanes and Oxley|Sarbanes-Oxley,

and aligning IT investments with business objectives

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Hoshin Kanri - Hoshin planning

1 # Establish measurable business objectives that

address these issues.

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Hoshin Kanri - The annual hoshin review

1 The senior management team can determine whether last year’s critical

business issues and business objectives (which were selected to

address the issues) are still appropriate for the coming year.

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Web traffic - Analyzing web traffic

1 Web analytics is the measurement of the behavior of visitors to a website. In a

commercial context, it especially refers to the measurement of which aspects of the

website work towards the business objectives of Internet marketing initiatives;

for example, which landing pages encourage people to make a purchase. Notable vendors of List of web analytics

software|web analytics software and services include Webtrends, IBM

WebSphere Commerce|Coremetrics, Omniture, and Google Analytics.

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Political risk

1 Broadly, political risk refers to the complications businesses and governments may face as a result of what are commonly referred to as political decisions—or “any political change that alters the expected outcome and value of a given economic

action by changing the probability of achieving business objectives”.Eurasia Group and PricewaterhouseCoopers,

“Integrating Political Risk Into Enterprise Risk Management”, [

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ISPL - Managing Acquisition Processes

1 The ISPL Acquisition Process is the actual process of obtaining a system

or service to achieve a goal contributing to business objectives and/or needs. It is one of the most

important parts of the ISPL method. This chapter is a summary of [2].

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ISPL - Assess the achievement of the acquisition goal

1 Unfortunately, when all individual contracts’ goals are reached this does

not automatically mean that the acquisition goal is achieved. In this

activity of the acquisition completion the acquisition manager has to verify the

customer company’s business objectives have been met and there are no missing parts in the acquisition that have been

overlooked.

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Account planning - History

1 This process creates an advertising message from the marketing

objectives and the client’s business objectives

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Business Process Re-engineering

1 BPR seeks to help companies radically restructure their organizations by

focusing on the ground-up design of their business processes. According to

Davenport (1990) a business process is a set of logically related tasks performed to achieve a defined business outcome. Re-engineering emphasized a Holism|holistic

focus on business objectives and how processes related to them, encouraging full-scale recreation of processes rather

than iterative optimization of subprocesses.

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Business Process Re-engineering - BPR success failure factors

1 It can also potentially create substantial improvements in business operations, quality,

customer service, or other business objectives

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Quality engineering

1 QA is also applied to software to verify that features and functionality meet business objectives, and that code is relatively bug free prior to shipping or releasing new software

products and versions.

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Brand infiltration

1 'Brand infiltration' is a marketing practice that takes a specific approach to

strategy, creativity and success tracking, where all three are driven by a thorough understanding of the business objective at hand. Brand infiltration insists that the organizational design of the marketing

agency includes a team with broad skills, but that each staff member has creative

and strategic leanings.

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Brand infiltration - Strategic focus

1 The business objective must include a specific sales target and a specific

demographic target.[http://www.cambridgestrategy.com/content/strategic_marketing_p

lan_audit.php The Strategic Marketing Plan Audit], Cambridge

Strategy Publications, p

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Brand infiltration - Strategic focus

1 An overall strategy is developed based on meeting the needs outlined

in the business objective and the values of the intended demographic.

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Brand infiltration - Creative focus

1 Brand infiltration requires that everyone working on a project is

completely educated on the brand in question and can always answer

whether the aspect they are personally working on will meet the

business objective and will bring value to the demographic.

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Brand infiltration - Creative focus

1 The media chosen will be carefully determined by a research and

business objective-based strategy and can include an integrated blend

of above and Below the line (advertising)|below the line

marketing techniques

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Brand infiltration - Metrics and sales focus

1 While it is standard for all marketing and advertising agencies to track the

number of hits or impressions that are gathered during a campaign, brand infiltration works to gather further data that shows how the

original business objectives (sales among a set demographic) have

been met.

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Workplace strategy - Components and aims of a workplace strategy

1 The workplace strategy may facilitate meeting Strategic planning|business objectives such as: reducing

property costs, improving business performance, merging two or more

organisations/cultures, and relocating or consolidating occupied

buildings

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Managing stage boundaries - Description

1 The process is managed by the Project Manager, who informs the Project Board of the likelihood of success in attaining the project's business objective, project plan, together with associated risks and issues. If the Project Board is satisfied

with the current stage end and the next stage plan, the project is permitted to

continue. Managing Stage Boundaries is therefore a vital process in the

management of the project.

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Industrial psychology - Organizational citizenship behavior

1 * 'Civic virtue'Civic virtue differs from other OCBs because the target of the

behavior is the group or organization as a whole, rather than an individual coworker.

Civic virtue OCBs include being a good representative of the organization and

supporting the organization, especially in its efforts outside of its major business

objectives. Examples of civic virtue OCBs are participating in charitable functions

held by the organization and defending or otherwise speaking well of the

organization.

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Compensation and benefits - Main influencers

1 The most important 'internal' influencers are the business

objectives, Trade unions|labor unions, internal equity (the idea of compensating employees in similar jobs and similar performance in a

similar way), organizational culture and organizational structure.

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Sales and operations planning - Definitions

1 APICS defines SOP as the function of setting the overall level of manufacturing

output (production plan) and other activities to best satisfy the current

planned levels of sales (sales plan and/or forecasts), while meeting general business objectives of profitability,

productivity, competitive customer lead times, etc., as expressed in the overall

business plan

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Indian CFA - Trademark Disputes CFAI vs ICFAI

1 This will allow both the parties to mutually co-exist and pursue their

business objectives. ICFAI would continue to operate under the ICFAI brand but will begin phasing out the CFA designation

over the next few years. The Candidates who have already been awarded the CFA Charter have been requested by ICFAI to

use the word CFA (ICFAI) to help distinguish themselves from the CFA

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Institute and Faculty of Actuaries - Research and member support

1 *Enterprise risk management - helping companies understand and

manage risk in line with their business objectives

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Managerial finance

1 Sound financial management creates value and organizational agility through the allocation of scarce resources amongst competing

business opportunities. It is an aid to the implementation and monitoring

of business strategies and helps achieve business objectives.

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Relocation services - Cost of international relocations for employers

1 Shorter term assignments have lower costs, especially when they avoid taxation thresholds, so the recent trend has been

more short-term assignments and extended business trips. The savings pendulum will swing the other way,

however, if expatriate employees are not given enough time to accomplish their

assignment’s specified business objectives, whereby the position becomes a revolving desk lacking in continuity or operational

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HP ExpertONE - Affiliate Certifications

1 The consultative selling techniques allow the sales individual to identify

customer business problems and determine how to meet their specific

business objectives using HP products and solutions

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London Business School - Executive Education

1 Additionally, The Centre for Management Development (CMD) at London Business School designs and

delivers Custom Programmes for groups of executives in organisations around the world. The programmes

are based on requirements and strategic business objectives to

create the correct method of learning.

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Earth Share

1 * EarthShare works closely with a Sponsor to choose the environmental

issue area that best matches Sponsor's philanthropic and business objectives.

Examples include: clean water, children and nature, wildlife habitat, renewable energy, urban greening, and health and

the environment. The extensive coverage of EarthShare member groups

allows issue areas to be national in scope or targeted to specific geographic areas.

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Corporate image

1 A 'corporate identity' is the overall image of a corporation or firm or business in the

minds of diverse publics, such as customers and investors and employees. It is a

primary task of the corporate communications department to maintain and build this identity to accord with and

facilitate the attainment of business objectives. It is usually visibly manifested

by way of branding and the use of trademarks.

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Product portfolio management

1 For example, product managers often translate business objectives set for a product by Marketing or

Sales into engineering requirements

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Sponsor (commercial) - Selling sponsorship

1 The sales cycle for selling sponsors is often a lengthy process that consists

of researching prospects, creating tailored proposals based on a

company's business objectives, finding the right contacts at a company, getting buy-in from

multiple constituencies and finally negotiating benefits/price

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Speed dating - Spin-offs

1 Business speed dating has also been used in China as a way for business people to meet each other and to

decide if they have similar business objectives and synergies. Speed dating

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Identity formation - In business

1 In business, a professional identity is the persona of a professional which is

designed to accord with and facilitate the attainment of business objectives. A

professional identity comes into being when there is a philosophy which is

manifest in a distinct corporate culture - the corporate personality. A business

professional is a person in a profession with certain types of skills that sometimes

requires formal training or education.

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Next-best-action marketing

1 The Next Best Action (an offer, proposition, service, etc.) is

determined by the customer’s interests and needs on the one hand,

and the marketing organization’s business objectives, policies on the

other

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Marketing objectives - Positioning

1 Positioning may refer the position a business has chosen to carry out

their marketing and business objectives

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International joint venture - Basic elements of an IJV

1 *'Specific Limited Purpose and Duration' - IJVs are formed for a specific business

objective and can have a limited life span or be long-term. IJVs are frequently

established for a limited duration because (a) the complementary

activities involve a limited amount of assets; (b) the complementary assets have only a limited service life; and/or

(c) the complementary production activities will be of only limited efficacy.

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Enterprise process management

1 The business objective is often to increase process speed or reduce

cycle time; to increase quality; or to reduce costs, such as labor,

materials, scrap, or capital costs

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Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining - Major phases

1 Before proceeding to final deployment of the model, it is important to more thoroughly

evaluate the model, and review the steps executed to construct the model, to be certain it properly

achieves the business objectives

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Configuration Management (ITIL) - Changes and characteristics of the 2011 edition of ITIL

1 # ITIL Service Design: turns the service strategy into a plan for

delivering the business objectives.

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Trade credit

1 There are many forms of trade credit in common use. Various industries use various specialized forms. They

all have, in common, the collaboration of businesses to make efficient use of capital to accomplish

various business objectives.

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BIA - Other

1 * Business/IT alignment, a dynamic state in which a business organization is able to use information technology (IT)

effectively to achieve business objectives

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Bounce rate - Purpose

1 Interpretation of the bounce rate measure should be relevant to a

website's business objectives and definitions of conversion, as having a high bounce rate is not always a sign

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Process area (CMMI) - Organizational Performance Management (OPM)

1 The purpose of 'Organizational Performance Management' (OPM) is

to proactively manage the organization’s performance to meet

its business objectives.

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Process area (CMMI) - Organizational Performance Management (OPM)

1 ** SP 1.1 Maintain Business Objectives

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Process area (CMMI) - Changes made in Version 1.3

1 * Level 4 and 5 generic goals and practices were eliminated as well as

capability levels 4 and 5 to appropriately focus high maturity on the achievement

of business objectives, which is accomplished by applying capability level

1-3 to the high maturity process areas (Causal Analysis and Resolution,

Quantitative Project Management, Organizational Performance Management, and Organizational Process Performance).

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Climate Care - History

1 Working with the Co-operative to develop bespoke projects in their

supply chain, integrating offsetting into their broader business

objectives.

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Real time policy

1 'Real time policy', in telecommunications, is a technical capability used to implement

a wide array of business rules and subscriber preferences. While the genesis of policy was in Quality of Service (QoS) and congestion control, it has evolved as Communications Service Providers (CSPs) use it to create personalized, user-directed

and interactive services and implement business objectives.

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SOA Lifecycle - SOA Framework

1 In a SOA-based solution, a holistic approach is taken to enable business

objectives while building an enterprise-quality system.

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Business partnering - Benefits

1 Partnering takes a new approach to achieving

business objectives

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Business/IT alignment

1 'Business-IT alignment' is a dynamic state in which a business organization is able to use information technology (IT)

effectively to achieve business objectives - typically improved

financial performance or marketplace competitiveness

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Component business model - Criticism

1 * Doesn’t include a representation of the main business goals, e.g.

strategic business objectives, critical success factors and key performance indicators, which a holistic business

model approach should include.

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Compliance and ethics program - Federal sentencing guidelines for organizations

1 As a result of these dynamics, organizations at the very core of their business strategy need to establish the capacity and the capability to effectively address the conditions

mandated by these external requirements and internally

generated operating principles while still meeting their business objectives.

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Compliance and ethics program - Effective program design

1 On a more practical level, a compliance and ethics program supports the

organization’s business objectives, identifies the boundaries of legal and ethical behavior, and establishes a

system to alert management when the organization is getting close to (or

crossing) a boundary or approaching an obstacle that prevents the achievement

of a business objective.

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Compliance and ethics program - Measuring program performance

1 A solid measurement system and approach should be implemented that embodies these principles: Focused on Business Objectives, Outcome-Oriented and a Simple

Measurement System.

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Compliance and ethics program - Measuring program performance

1 Business objectives should include a program metrics and measurement,

helping management understand how the program contributes to

overall enterprise objectives. But while process and activity metrics

are important, the outcomes are the ultimate goal – never lose sight of

this.

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Service-oriented architectures - SOA Framework

1 SOA-based solutions endeavour to enable business objectives while

building an enterprise-quality system.

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Bauer College of Business - Sales Excellence Institute

1 Working closely with strategically partnering corporations, SEI designs and delivers custom programs and services based on in-depth research in order to

achieve their respective strategic business objectives. SEI regularly hosts conferences

to provide and exchange with sales and sales management practitioners its most cutting-edge research findings. It is host

to the annual Selling and Sales Management Conference.

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Social business - Seven Principles of Social Business

1 * Business objective will be to overcome poverty, or one or more

problems (such as education, health, technology access, and environment) which threaten people and society;

not profit maximization

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Old Republic International

1 Old Republic publishes an Annual Review that is widely distributed to

agents, brokers, customers, employees, and others interested in the Company's business objectives

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Edison Engineering Development Program

1 The 'Edison Engineering Development Program' (EEDP) is one of General Electric's six corporate entry level

programs. Focused on engineering, the program aims to develop technical

problem-solving skills through advanced courses in engineering and technical

projects that are aligned with business objectives. It is named in honor of GE's

founder, Thomas Edison.

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Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology - SLIIT objectives

1 * Assisting and promoting enterprises, innovators and start-up

companies with the necessary expertise to achieve business

objectives.

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Ontario wine

1 Many wineries produce both VQA wines and non-VQA wines depending on their business

objectives

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