enterprise
(noun)
A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.
Examples of enterprise in the following topics:
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Information and Risk Trade-Off
- IT risk relates to the business risk associated with the use, ownership, operation, involvement, and adoption of IT within an enterprise.
- IT risk management can be viewed as a component of a wider enterprise risk management (ERM) system.
- Some organizations have a comprehensive enterprise risk management methodology in place.
- IT risk transverses all four of the aforementioned categories and should be managed within the framework of enterprise risk management.
- Risk appetite and risk sensitivity of the whole enterprise should guide the IT risk management process.
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Free Enterprise
- A free-enterprise system is based on private ownership as the means of production.
- The definition of free enterprise is a business governed by the laws of supply and demand, where the government has no involvement in its decisions or actions.
- Capitalism is generally considered to be an economic system that is based on private ownership of the means of production and the creation of goods or services for profit by privately-owned business enterprises.
- Explain how free enterprise leads to the economic system of capitalism
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Assets
- Assets are resources as a result of past events and from which future economic benefits are expected to flow to the enterprise.
- "An asset is a resource controlled by the enterprise as a result of past events and from which future economic benefits are expected to flow to the enterprise. "
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Boycotts
- Union boycotts are a form of industrial action by a trade union in support of a strike initiated by workers in another, separate enterprise.
- Union boycotts, or secondary action, is industrial action by a trade union in support of a strike initiated by workers in another, separate enterprise .
- Also known as secondary action, is industrial action by a trade union in support of a strike initiated by workers in another, separate enterprise.
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Stakeholders: the connective rim on the wheel
- Consider establishing contacts with some of the following suggested stakeholder categories common to new venture enterprises mentioned in the "Startup Stakeholder Arrow".
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Customer Experience Management
- Jeananne Rae says that companies are realizing that "building great consumer experiences is a complex enterprise, involving strategy, integration of technology, orchestrating business models, brand management and CEO commitment."
- However, CRM strategies and solutions are designed to focus on product, price, and enterprise process, with minimal or no focus on customer need and desire.
- Where CRM is enterprise-focused and designed to manage customers for maximum efficiency, CEM is a strategy that focuses the operations and processes of a business around the needs of the individual customer.
- Companies are focusing on the importance of the experience and, as Jeananne Rae notes, realizing that "building great consumer experiences is a complex enterprise, involving strategy, integration of technology, orchestrating business models, brand management and CEO commitment" (2006).
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Market research to determine the potential market for funeral services in Monterrey, Mexico
- Background: A group of investors thought about developing a new enterprise concept of funeral services in Monterrey, Mexico.
- To understand if a potential market exists for a funeral services enterprise in Monterrey City.
- The concept of the new funeral services enterprise was very well accepted by most of the people interviewed (70 per cent), mainly the idea of having a person who facilitates all the funeral proceedings, seems to be very helpful and important in those moments of grief.
- The proposed location for the new funeral services enterprise had an acceptance of 80 per cent of the people interviewed, mainly because they are near the most important churches of the city with easy accesses.
- Thanks to this market study, the investors could corroborate the idea that a funeral service enterprise in Monterrey may be a good business opportunity.In addition they could delineate the concept according to the market.
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Publicly Held Corporations
- There is no standard definition of a publicly-owned corporation or state-owned enterprise (SOE), although the two terms can be used interchangeably.
- State-owned enterprises can be fully or partially owned by the government.
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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As)
- Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) refers to the aspect of corporate strategy, corporate finance, and management dealing with the buying and selling of different companies and similar entities that can help an enterprise grow rapidly.
- Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) refers to the aspect of corporate strategy, corporate finance, and management dealing with the buying and selling of different companies and similar entities that can help an enterprise grow rapidly.
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The origins of lean thinking
- (Alukal, George, and Manos, Anthony, ‘How Lean Manufacturing Can Help Your Mold Shop') In service firms such as banks, restaurants, hospitals and offices, lean-thinking concepts are referred to as ‘lean enterprise'.
- (Lean Enterprise Institute, ‘What is Lean Thinking?