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Business management
General business management terms encompassing inventory management, security management, financial administration, business planning, and management services for all enterprise-wide information systems.
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Business management
Management by crisis
Business administration; Business management
A management style that tends to favour crash programmes to deal with problems as they arise in an organisation rather than focussing on long-term planning or on the overall objectives of the ...
Balanced scorecard
Business administration; Business management
A management tool aimed at increasing organisational effectiveness. It employs a range of both quantitative measures (like profit and productivity) and qualitative measures (like customer service and ...
Measured daywork (MDW)
Business administration; Business management
A management procedure where a daily production target is defined for all the workers on the shop floor, whose pay is then made up of a fixed, regular amount for each day that the target is met – as ...
Old school tie
Business administration; Business management
A long-established form of networking. In this case, chaps who went to the same English public school (and are therefore entitled to wear the same tie) practise various forms of mutual aid in later ...
House journal
Business administration; Business management
A magazine or newsletter, produced for members of an organisation and other interested parties, containing news of the organisation and its staff.
Brand
Business administration; Business management
A mark, name, logo or trademark that identifies a product or service or organisation and distinguishes it from its competitors.
Duopoly
Business administration; Business management
A market in which only two firms compete or which is dominated by two firms. See also monopoly and oligopoly.
