... are
critical to carrying out the mission
of The
Network. Experienced mission
contacts are drawn to the following types of networks for business
development. Other .network users need
to be able to form them as necessary for building and maintaining
relationships with
resource
and service providers as well as to be able to tap into those
that already exist.
 enterprise
and economic development : ally
network
economic
development : economic
development network
enterprise
development : enterprise
development network
site
location work : site
selection network
resource
and service provider networks
All of the above function by bringing resource and service providers together
with prospects. Also, beginning with the links regarding ally networks
for enterprise and economic development they are implied as being important
to carrying out the mission of The Network, which is called what it is
because all three of its websites facilitate the building and maintenance
of relationship.
Select the following links if interested in how The Network is
designed for finding contacts:
three
websites are designed to be searched
page
7 of the introduction to The Network is about searching for contacts
what
to look for when searching the Global Registry of Contacts
examples
of resources offered as alternatives to the GRC contacts directory
... choose the Google/.network search
engine to query the Web or
any other ... choose the Global
Registry of Contacts to search or an alternative.
No matter what your choice, you are covered by the
unique search promise of The Network details. The
source of quote is page
4 of About Enterprise Development (choose the About
This Page button).
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business environment ... all of the conditions surrounding
a business
enterprise that dictate how it operates it its location.
The expression may be used as a category of location
data. When that's the case, it's likely to be a header for information
that promotes the attitudes and programs of a place that
make it accommodating for enterprise
and economic development.
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business environment ... all of the conditions
surrounding a business
enterprise that dictate how it operates it its location.
The expression may be used as a category of
location
data. When that's the case, it's likely to be a header
for information that promotes the attitudes and programs of a place that
make it accommodating for enterprise
and economic development.
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enterprise operating entity ... that which makes an enterprise operation
a distinct and separate thing. See the resource article titled One-Entity
Approach at the website of the Business
Owners Toolkit; Total Know-How for Small Business for an indication
of how we came to publish this definition of enterprise operating entity.
If you visit www.toolkit.com,
notice that a business
card exchange is available. For those who are resource
and service providers engaged in enterprise and economic development, The
Network offers something similarsee personal
webpage.
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What does "meeting specifications" mean?
Searching for a definition of meeting specifications without
the use of additional keywords to help zero in on a relationship to
enterprise development projects is likely to return information about
event planning. For example, copy and
paste
the
question in the search box at the top of this page to query the Web.
Adding just one word, such as engineering, will change
search
results.
Site
location work, commonly
referred to as
site
selection,
is an area
of
activity within enterprise
and economic development to which the
network
of websites you are using is dedicated. The answer to the question
within the context of an enterprise
development project or site
selection project is as follows: Meeting specifications means
arriving at point where all wants
and needs are obtained or conditions realized or objectives attained
as delineate in a statement of particulars covered by a project profile.
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What does a project manager do?
The question is posed at in a resource file titled Project
ManagementOverview provided
online UK management consultant Simon
Wallace. The question is answered using a couple of graphics
and written explanation. Add Wallace's information
to comments
elsewhere about how enterprise
developers and site
selectors work their projects. Enterprise developers and
site selectors are project managers among the user
group served by
The Network. There are also project managers
among its resource
and service providers. Wikipedia offers project
management information.
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e-business:
... the E stands for Electronic, meaning that the business
in online,
a dot-com. Wikipedia has a file title Electronic
Business. Various sources attribute the creation of the term
to an IBM advertising campaignThat
effort, though initially derided by rivals when it began in 1997, proved
quite successful, by explaining the practical uses of the Internet to
IBM's mainstream corporate customers. (quote source).
Answers.com has the definition
of dot-com.
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enterprise development within a franchise system:
Three
Things You Need to Do Before Buying a Franchise is an online
resource offered by the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce (Chattanooga,
TN). The source of the information, Bruce Krebs, has a record in
the Global Registry of Contactssee Searching
for Contacts.
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US Government Printing Office:
GPO Access has a Code
of Federal Regulations. CFR are rules published in the Federal
Register. A link to a guide
to government information is in the lower-left corner at the bottom
of the CFR page. The guide is handy source of information that's easy
to useit's
for kids.
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.network economic development marketing file ... CLICK
HERE to access the resource.
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site selector database:
The site
selection page of the .network glossary has a definition
of site selector database, AKA site
consultant database. Either way its an economic
development marketing tool. Use the link in
the paragraph above for access to an economic development marketing
resource.
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Quote from http://www.naplesnews.com, Advertising: IBM plays up its on-demand
computer service, 10/31/02 (online article no longer accessible).
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business development networking:
The following definition of business development networking comes from the .network glossary
where a distinction is made between business development as enterprise
development and business development as a sales or marketing effort.
See the information above about the basics of business
development as enterprise development. Also see the networking
page in the series about economic development in Economic Development.net.
(business development is) ... contact
with a prospect for
the purpose of exchanging information in hopes of building a working relationship
or adding to one that already exists; a person-to-person effort to exchange
information for initiating, organizing or adding to a working relationship
with one of the two in the position of prospect, client or customer.
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