BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Business Objective
- a goal that an organization sets for itself, for example, profitability, sales growth, or return on investment. These goals are the foundation upon which the strategic and operational policies adopted by the organization are based.
Additional Resources
- Customer Relationship Automation: A Viable Business Objective Or An Oxymoron?
- Customer relationship management refers to technology and business systems that together automate the management of customer relationships. But before applying CRM one should consider whether or not it's actually possible to automate the management of customer relationships. If customer relationship automation is, in fact, a viable business objective, it would...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Making HR Business Process Outsourcing Work
- Human Resources Business Process Outsourcing HR BPO offers organizations a multitude of operational and strategic improvement opportunities. However, HR BPO is a complex business arrangement and it is not the solution for every HR business objective. This paper describes the steps an organization should consider for an HR BPO initiative...
- White papers 2005-11-09
- Bentley Global Business Ethics Symposium Examines Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century; State Street's Richard Pearl, Deloitte's Barry Salzberg Talk About Coping With Globalization and 'Doing the Right Thing'.
- Byline: Bentley College WALTHAM, Mass., May 25 AScribe Newswire -- Although they hail from different companies, two keynote speakers at the Second Bentley Global Business Ethics Symposium were in agreement: Global organizations such as theirs must translate their values to the needs of a...
- Research articles 2006-05-25
- Guide To Retaining Your Top Talent: Linking Goals, Measurement, And Rewards To Drive Business Performance
- Motivating, rewarding, and retaining top performers is a key business objective for any business that seeks to successfully maintain or exceed growth expectations. The challenge lies in effectively aligning employee goals with organizational objectives, automating performance appraisal processes, and linking them with complex compensation policies or time-based incentive plans at...
- White papers 2008-03-01
- HP integrates point-of-care blood testing into OmniCare monitors, fulfills business objective with i-STAT
- PALO ALTO, Calif.--BW HealthWire--May 1, 1997--Hewlett-Packard Company today announced expanded capabilities for the HP OmniCare CMS patient monitor, including the industry's first module that, using i-STATR test cartridges, offers a critical mass of stat blood tests at the patient's side. This announcement fulfills the business objectives outlined by HP...
- Research articles 1997-05-01
- Closing Rule #2: Set an Objective.
- Myth: Every sale has a single, all-important point where the deal closes. Truth: Some extremely simple sales processes have a defined close point, but complex sales processes (i.e. almost all B2B sales) have a series of points where the prospect makes a decision, even if it's just...
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- KILL BW1331, -NH-OBJECTIVE-COMM- and KILL BW1448, -CQN-NH-OBJECTIVE-COMM-
- Please KILL BW1331, (NH-OBJECTIVE-COMM)OCOM Objective Communications, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Year End Results, which ran on Business Wire at 1:12pm ET on 03/31/1999. Also KILL the CORRECTION, BW1448, (CQN-NH-OBJECTIVE-COMM)OCOM Correcting Table Headers in Objective Communications, Inc. Release, BW1331, which ran on Business Wire at 4:49pm ET on...
- Research articles 1999-03-31
- Objective Corporation appoints Business Development Manager for Scotland and North England; Bob Donaldson appointed to further expand on successful growth in the region.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-14 September 2005-Objective Corporation: Objective Corporation appoints Business Development Manager for Scotland and North England; Bob Donaldson appointed to further expand on successful growth in the regionC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14092005 Objective Corporation, a leading provider of Enterprise Content ...
- Research articles 2005-09-14
- The ABCs of spec homes: part one of a series explores the nine elements of successful spec building.(BUSINESS OF DESIGN/BUILD)(Specifications)
- When building a spec home, a builder inevitably asks: Where do I begin? What is my primary objective? Is my primary objective to make as much money as possible, or to build a showcase home to secure future custom work? Is it to create sales momentum ...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- What Every Sales Person Could Learn From The Yankees
- Just like in baseball, sales is full of statistics, metrics, and measurements. On any given day, one can make a case for promoting or firing just about any member of the sales team. It is not uncommon to find sales professionals who fail to meet the business objective, which is...
- White papers 2007-10-23
- Unisys Corporation Awards $1 Million Sales Order to Objective Communications for Its Vidphone System
- MCLEAN, VA. and PORTSMOUTH, N.H.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 30, 1998--UnisysR (NYSE: UIS) Corporation, a leading provider of solutions, services and technology products for the Federal market, and Objective CommunicationsR, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCOM), a leading provider of real-time video communications solutions, announced today that Unisys has awarded Objective Communications a $1 million sales...
- Research articles 1998-11-30
- Objective Communications Announces Commencement of Initial Public Offering of Common Stock
- NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--April 4, 1997--Objective Communications Inc., announced today that a Registration Statement filed in connection with an initial public offering of 1,800,000 shares of Common Stock was declared effective yesterday by the Securities & Exchange Commission, and that the Underwriter, Barington Capital Group L.P., had commenced a public offering...
- Research articles 1997-04-04
- U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals Selects Objective Communicatons' VidPhone System to Improve Judicial Process
- MCLEAN, Va. & PORTSMOUTH, N.H.--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 7, 1998-- -Unisys and Objective Communications Provide Tools Needed to Cut Costs and Increase Operating Efficiencies- UnisysR (NYSE: UIS) Corporation, a leading provider of solutions, services and technology products for the Federal market, and Objective CommunicationsR, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCOM), a leading...
- Research articles 1998-10-07
- Correcting Table Headers in Objective Communications, Inc. Release, BW1331
- --BUSINESS WIRE-- In BW1331, Objective Communications, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Year End Results, in the first table Statements of Operations, read the table headers December 31, 1998 and 1997 for both the three months and year ended (sted 1998 / 1998 and 1997 / 1997 as sent)....
- Research articles 1999-03-31
- Selling Shares of Your Business
- People sell shares of a company to raise funds or to eventually sell the company. Shares can be sold to angel investors, venture capitalists, individuals, and other businesses. These different types of buyers will have different motives for buying, expectations of the dividends they may receive, and intentions for selling...
- Articles 2007-09-27
- Estimating Your Potential Customer Base
- It's important to find out the potential of your business to generate revenues and profits in a chosen market sector. That's what thorough market research is designed to determine. The better the data you have about your market, the better equipped you'll be to make informed decisions about your business....
- Articles 2007-05-08
- Business Process Improvement Using Multi-Objective Optimisation
- Business process redesign and improvement has become an increasingly attractive subject in the wider area of business process intelligence. Although there are many attempts to establish a business process redesign framework, there is little work on the actual optimisation of business processes with given objectives. Furthermore, most of the attempts...
- White papers 2006-10-17
- Cygnus aviation group to host China trade mission.(Cygnus Business Media)(Brief Article)
- Cygnus Business Media, parent company of AIRPORT BUSINESS, announces its aviation publishing group will host a trade mission to China September 9-16, 2005. The objective of the mission is to provide companies in the ground support, ground service, ma Cygnus Business Media, parent company of AIRPORT...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- Stop using APs to earn quick bucks: Dr. Mahathir, BUSINESS TIMES
- Business Times Malaysia 09-14-2002 THE New Economic Policy's NEP objective of having 30 per cent Bumiputera equity participation in business remains elusive as long as these entrepreneurs are still under the spell of greed and quick bucks. Business Times...
- Research articles 2002-09-14
- Brunel University's 'Fluid Business' survey highlights it's 'objective gap'; "Communication between business and IT is better than ever," says Mark Lycett, Fluid Business Project leader at Brunel University's Department of Information Systems an
- M2 PRESSWIRE-30 July 2003-Brunel University: Brunel University's 'Fluid Business' survey highlights it's 'objective gap'; "Communication between business and IT is better than ever," says Mark Lycett, Fluid Business Project leader at Brunel University's Department of Information Systems and Computing: "but within IT departments, there is...
- Research articles 2003-07-30
