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Business management best practices including corporate strategy development, financial management, human resource management, information management, resource planning, marketing and sales.

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GIGO

Business administration; Business management

An acronym for garbage in, garbage out.

access time

Business administration; Business management

The amount of time taken to retrieve information from the storage facility of a computer and make it available for use.

internet

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A global network of electronic communications which grew out of a group of academic and military research networks established in the United States during the 1960s. Among other ...

k

Business administration; Business management

A common abbreviation for one thousand, derived from the French ‘kilo’. It is used especially of money; for example, $50K = $50,000.

Strong Vocational Interest Blank

Business administration; Business management

A questionnaire about a person’s interests, which is matched with the reported interests of people in different vocations to assess her or his suitability for a particular kind of ...

quality of working life

Business administration; Business management

An approach to work that first became prominent in the 1960s. It is concerned to improve the quality of life for people in the workplace, by emphasizing the importance of good job ...

risk

Business administration; Business management

(1) The likelihood, or the statistical probability, of failure in a business enterprise; the essence of being an entrepreneur, and therefore of capitalism. (2) The term is also ...