Business Vocabulary

This white paper by the American Productivity & Quality Center explains that the most successful new product development teams are ....., with representation from a core group of areas such as finance, marketing, manufacturing, design, engineering, and research.

Technology licensing can also be used to acquire foreign technology, such as ..... agreements awarding rights to improved technology developed by a licensee.

Quality content is more important now than ever before; there is a ..... of content, and it's only going to get more crowded.

Another ..... divides reference groups into the informational kind (influence is based almost entirely on members' knowledge), normative kind (members influence what is perceived to be 'right', 'proper', or 'responsible'), or identification kind.

That is, the appraisal results are used to identify the better performing employees who should get the majority of available ..... pay increases, bonuses, and promotions.

Nowadays, systems are so big and complex that teams of architects, analysts, programmers, testers and users must work together to create the millions of lines of .....-written code that drive our enterprises.

When these issues involve conflict between a sovereign state and a private party, the latter could face substantial obstacles to ..... its rights and defending its interests.

Capital ..... comes from long term liabilities and ordinary shareholders; it is the effective amount of money actually being used for business, irrespective of whether it comes from the owners, creditors or banks.

The direct ..... method of transfer from employer-sponsored plan to employee IRA allows the latter to avoid IRS withholding tax deducted with a distribution by the company plan to the employee, even if the employee intends to place it immediately into an IRA.

The managers want to create a new motto for the company and they want the message to be distinct. What does distinct mean? ......