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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.

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definition of data broker / definition of location information broker
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data contact:

an information resources provider, for example, a contact who supplies location data.
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definition of data contact / definition of data supplier
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data package:

... an assemblage of various informational materials, such as location package.
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definition of data package / definition of location information package
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data service:

... a supplier of information. The Network lists various types of location data suppliers.
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definition of data service / definition of location data service
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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.
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definition of dead serious as in a dead serious request for a location package
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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.
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definition of deal / definition of a real estate deal
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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.
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definition of debt financing
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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.
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who makes decisions during the enterprise development process
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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.
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definition of decertification / definition of decertify
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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.
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definition of deming method / what is the deming method
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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.
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definition of demographics
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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.
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what is depreciation as related to the management of assets
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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.
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definition of developer / what does a developer do
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development:

... changing towards an ideal point of maximum capability, potential, quality or usefulnessdashdevelopment 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.
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definition of development as in enterprise development or economic development
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development alliance:

... allies that agree to work together in a change initiativedashmore.
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definition of development alliance
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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) .
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definition of development contact
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development network:

... a group of change agents who engage in networking on a regular basis.
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definition of development network
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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.
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definition of development organization
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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.
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definition of development region
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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.
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definition of direct investment
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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.
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definition of distant location as related to enterprise development and site selection
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direct labor ... workers contributing directly to a production process.
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definition of direct labor
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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.
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definition of domain name extension
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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 considerationdashsee commute time.
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definition of drive time
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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.
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definition of dual monitoring / definition of duel consent / definition of mutual consent
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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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definition of due diligence
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