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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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upward communication
Business administration; Business management
communication from lower levels of employees up to senior management in the hierarchy of an organization. This is a much more difficult proposition than either downward communication or horizontal ...
computer-aided manufacturing (CAM)
Business administration; Business management
computerization of all the steps in the manufacture of a product.
brown goods
Business administration; Business management
Consumer products which are presented within a wood or imitation wood case, like television sets or kitchen cabinets. Compare with white goods.
early adopters
Business administration; Business management
Consumers who follow the earliest innovators in the adoption of new products.
divergent thinking
Business administration; Business management
Creative and original thinking that deviates from the obvious and the conventional to produce several possible solutions to a particular problem. Usually contrasted with convergent thinking. See also ...
white-collar crime
Business administration; Business management
Criminal offences associated with businesspeople or whitecollar workers, like embezzlement, fraud or insider dealing on the stock market.
benchmarking
Business administration; Business management
Currently fashionable jargon for setting standards.
