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Internal Operations of a Global Business

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Quality   When a good or service fulfills its purpose to meet or exceed the needs and expectations of the user  
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Quality Control   A reactive, product oriented approach to quality that is primarily about detection. That is testing for and detecting faults.  
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Quality Assurance   A proactive, process oriented approach to quality that is primarily about prevention. That is, making sure things are done in the right way.  
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Total Quality Management   An organisation-wide philosophy with its core values centred on continually improving the quality of its processes, products and services  
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Continuous Improvement   A way of ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes  
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Quality Circles   Small groups of workers from the same work area who meet regularly to solve problems relating to quality control.  
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Innovation   Creating a new product, process or idea and taking it to the market. Or improving an existing product, process or idea to make it better or more efficient  
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Product innovation   New creations or the development and improvement of existing products  
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Process innovation   Changes to the way production takes place  
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Cost-reducing innovation   Improved processes that reduce the cost of production for a business or industry.  
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Breakthrough innovation   An “out of the blue” solution or discovery that cannot be compared to existing practices or techniques  
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Change Management   A structured approach to transitioning individuals, teams, and organisations from a current state to a desired future state  
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Clustering   The phenomenon whereby firms from the same industry gather together in close proximity.  
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Trade Bloc   A group of countries which engage in international trade together, and are usually related through a free trade agreement or other association  
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Investment   The purchase or creation of assets with the objective of making gains in the future  
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Investment Appraisal   An evaluation of an investment (machinery, plants, products) made by a business to help determine the value and quality of an investment  
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Time Value of Money   The idea that the same amount of money (face value) has a different value at some other point in time  
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Payback Method   The time in which the initial investment is expected to be recovered from the cash inflows generated by the investment  
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Average Rate of Return   ARR compares the amount invested to the profits earned over the course of a project's life. The higher the ARR, the better.  
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Net Present Value Method   NPV is the difference between the present value of cash inflows and the present value of cash outflows. Inflows > outflows = good.  
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Intellectual Property Rights   Legal ownership of creations of the mind that give exclusive rights of use. Examples include patents, copyrights and trademarks.  
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Patent   Legal ownership granting exclusive rights to make, sell or otherwise use a product or process for a limited time.  
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Copyright   Legal ownership granting the exclusive right to the owner of an original work to copy, license or otherwise benefit its use. E.g. software, music, book.  
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Trademark   A unique identifier such as a symbol, word, logo, phrase or combination of these that legally distinguishes one company's product from any others  
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Trade Secrets   Any confidential formula, pattern, idea or information that provides a competitive advantage to the business  
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Indigenous Property Rights   Property rights regarding be carvings, designs, clothing, decorations, jewellery, land, sea, rivers, flora and fauna.  
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Invention   The creation of a new idea, product or process may involve years of research or may have occurred in a flash of inspiration. An invention will hopefully lead to a patent.  
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Inertia   People's resistance to change  
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Loss Curve (SARAH)   The emotional passage experienced with change or loss; shock, anger, rejection, acceptance, healing  
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Bureaucracy   Overly complex and unnecessary official procedures that slow any administration  
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Infrastructure   Facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area such as transportation and communication systems and power plants  
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Compliance   Conforming to a rule, such as a specification, policy, standard or law  
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Competitive advantage   An advantage that a firm has over its competitors, allowing it to generate greater sales or margins and/or retain more customers than its competition.  
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Discounted cash flow   Calculating the present value of future cash flows.  
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Service mark   A trademark to identify a service rather than a product  
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Civil case (IPR)   Seeks to repair through a lawsuit (to sue) to get compensation (damages) or through an injunction to stop infringement of IPR  
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Criminal case (IPR)   Seeks to punish through fines and imprisonment for major or deliberate infringement of IPR.  
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