data broker:
... an information gatherer engaged in selling
it as product after reorganizing and/or repackaging without
doing any substantial analysis. A data broker may sell directly
to a customer or indirectly through a fee, for example a
membership fee. It is a misnomer to refer to a data broker
as a supplier of location information as involved in data
assimilation. A data broker, however, is a type
of location
data supplier. An information
broker is not the
same as a data broker.
data contact:
an information resources provider, for example, a contact who
supplies location
data.
data package:
... an assemblage of various informational materials,
such as location package.
data service:
... a supplier of information. The Network lists
various types
of location data suppliers.
dead serious:
... an expression emphasizing
importance; not to be taken lightly, as in the case of
someone who requests a data package from
a place
of interest,
supplying a project
profile and selection
criteria along
with it in order to emphasize that it's for a serious site
selection effort.
deal:
... the process of give and take precedes the
making of a contract; bargain or the bargain itself. See
item #8, making the deal(s) under the basic
elements of the location selection process and
the definition of deal
making to which it links; also, see where the
deal-maker fits into location
work under the definition of site
selection team.
debt financing:
... the use of borrowed funds to make a capital
investment. The property itself usually serves as the security
for the debt in real
estate debt financing.
decision making:
... a duty, responsibility, or obligation imposed
on an enterprise
developer; a charge accepted by leaders
of change (change
agents). See the .network definition
of
business
decision maker. Also, see Appendix
A.
decertification:
... a process by which employees remove the interloping
authority of a organization, such as a union, that represents
them in their
place of work. To vote out a labor union is to start the process
of its decertification. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has the authority in the USA to
maintain guidelines for decertification.
Deming Method:
... Deming Management Method; 14-point management system
developed by W.
Edwards Deming in the mid-20th century and applied
to improve production efficiency, increase productivity
and reduce the costs of enterprise operations.
It became became well know for its contribution to the
rebuilding
of the Japanese economy in the 1950s. Enterprises,
consultants, and coaches have since applied the method
in combination with the installation of quality
systems in many variations and identities, for
example, TQM.
demographics:
... statistical characteristics by census reference;
the creation of averages for a population, as a community,
in terms of age, income, education, lifestyle, and other
statistical measures; analysis and presentation of a geographic
area or location as
a population by accounting for its number of households,
in/out migration, and a profiling of its groups of people.
Although laborforce and workforce statistics
and not generally considered to be a part of demographic
data, The Network discusses them in
several places as such, for example, see An
Introduction to the Enterprise Development Process for
information intended to show where
demographics fits into the process of gathering location
data.
depreciation:
... reduction of value by the acknowledgement
of loss through an accounting process. Depreciating assets,
as is usually done for tax
purposes, is property depreciation.
developer:
... a person or entity that changes something
by improving or adding to it; i.e., a person or group that
does development, for example,
there is the community
developer, economic
developer, enterprise
developer or real
estate developer.
development:
... changing towards an ideal point of maximum
capability, potential, quality or usefulness development
process as well as development
representative are defined in Site Location Assistance.com.
The process can be broken down into specific projects.
For example, the definition of the enterprise
and economic development process is meaningful
to those who gather or provide location
data when they are specifically involved in activities
that will lead to startups, expansions or relocations. Real
estate going through a planned change is development
of property or land parcels with controls and restrictions
added. Such developments are usually identified by name,
for example, business, office, commercial, or industrial
parks and buildings. Also a planned community is a type
of development.
development alliance:
... allies that agree to work together in a change
initiativemore.
development contact:
... a resource
or service provider involved in
the enterprise
and economic development process; an area
developer; anyone who places his or her
contact
data in an economic
development directory for business
development purposes or anyone
who, likewise, places an address in an open
economic development directory project; an economic
developer representing one
or more locations (location
development representative);
a real
estate developer's representative (see Real
Estate Developer.com) .
development network:
... a group of change
agents who engage in networking on
a regular basis.
development organization:
... the structure of an enterprise that
has administrative personnel and through which individuals
cooperate in their various efforts
in order to accomplish a common mission which has to do
with bringing about change. An enterprises having a mission
to which any one of the definitions found at www.economicdevelopment.net/ad_n/about.htm is
applicable is often referred to an an economic development
organization. A Basic
Definition of Organization is available
from the Free
Management Library online.
development region:
... a geographic
area identified as having an
organized effort for its economic
development. In its online presentation
of resources for global enterprise and economic development, The
Network considers major
regions of the world and those
that that are small, say, within
countries as
well as everything in between. The aim is to cover the
interests of site
selectors. See comments under maps
for site selection in the .network resources
archive.
direct investment:
... capital placed at risk by an enterprise
developer at a site selected during the course
of a location
project; an equity investment
in something, such as a real estate development, that
a prospect makes
in a place
of interest that makes an economic
development impact; the stake made by a economic
development prospect in a distant
location. The expression is generally used
to report foreign
investment figures, for example, on a level
of international interest when cumulative totals of
foreign investments made in various countries are published.
distant location:
... a place away
from the headquarters of an enterprise where
there are operations and to which one would have to travel
to get there; likewise, a place
of interest to an entrepreneur or enterprise
developer for starting up a new venture;
a place that is a target for a relocation;
an expression used without stating a specific distance
or travel time, for example: The corporate
real estate executive informed his staff confidentially that
they are about to go to work on a site
selection project to find a place for expanding at
a distant location overseas.
direct labor ... workers contributing directly
to a production process.
domain name extension:
... the portion of a domain
name, following the final dot at the end of an FQDN and,
therefore, a functional item of the URL
address string. For example the dot net at the
end of http://www.economicdevelopment.net is
the extension that functions to identify the website
as the economic
development network online. More of the address
string exists, however. For example, select the URL
for Economic Development.net to see that its address
string continues with default.htm (the filename
extension). Add to that a page
down navigation tag to increase the address string
functionality as an instruction that links to a specific
point in the file.
drive time:
... the time it takes to move from one point
to another by vehicle. A site selector might ask for the
drive-times from a regional airport
to locations under
considerationsee commute
time.
dual monitoring:
... a telecommunications term referring to the
activity of listening in on a call with the mutual consent
of the two parties involved.
The mutual consent is also called duel consent. Either way it's an
important consideration in locating or starting up contact center
operations where government has an authority to define and control
what is fair and proper conduct when attempting to market, sell,
take orders, or serve customers via telecommunications.
due diligence:
... the fair, proper and due degree of care and
activity. It is a term that is expressed or implied in
contracts, usually stating
that good faith efforts are to be made to perform obligations. Prudent
buyers conduct due diligence investigations to be sure contact obligations
requiring good faith efforts have truly been acted upon.
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