business environment:

... the conditions surrounding a business enterprise which serve to make it an operating entity; the business-like setting of an enterprise; This definition of business environment was published in conjunction with the one for small business in the .network glossary.

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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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e-business:

... the E stands for Electronic, meaning that the business in online, a dot-com. Wikipedia has a file title Electronic Business. It has a definition of e-business with explanation. 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. Two .network websites are dot-coms. Each is operated, however, as an online information servicemore about the websites.

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Suggestion: Copy and paste the keyword combination, enterprise development basics, in the search box at the top of this page and Google the Web. Also, the following links to .network information is basic, especially, for understanding enterprise and economic development.

access the enterprise development section of the .network library.

answer to the question: What does an enterprise developer do?

read a paragraph about where enterprise developers fit in with business decision makers.

An Introduction to the Enterprise Development Process.

site selection is a process of enterprise development.

risk analysis and risk management are basic procedures for success.

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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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