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Business Definition for: Agenda

  • a list of topics to be discussed or business to be transacted during the course of a meeting, usually sent prior to the meeting to those invited to attend

Wiktionary Definition for: Agenda

  • italbrac now rare plural of agendum
  • a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
  • a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting).
  • a booklet or other device where one notes down one's schedule.
  • #English agenda (meeting list of matters)
  • #organiser
  • #the gerundive form of the verb meaning "what ought to be done"
  • English agenda
  • #English agenda

Additional Resources

Adjustable Meeting Agenda
This template can be used to schedule agenda items that automatically adjust their duration when other items are added and changed. Automatically scheduling agenda items saves the trouble of making calculations about the time allotted to each speaker and allows to make quick, last-minute updates to agenda list.
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Tools & templates 2005-09-28
Orlando magic for Ricoh dealers
Orlando was magic for some 800 Ricoh dealers and sales representatives January 24-26 when they gathered for Agenda '99, the company's annual dealer meeting at Disney's Contemporary Resort. Actually, the last Ricoh Agenda took place in October 1997. However, a change in the Agenda cycle from fall to winter precluded...
Tags: Ricoh Corp.
Research articles 1999-03-01
National Issues Forums Suggest Striking Differences in Views of Leaders, Public on Energy, Study Finds; 'Public Thinking About the Energy Problem,' by Public Agenda and Kettering Foundation, to Be Presented at March 5 George Washington University Program.
Byline: Public Agenda Byline: Public Agenda
Tags: George Washington University, leader
Research articles 2008-02-28
Labor's looming agenda - 100th Congress' remaining agenda
Labor's Looming Agenda
Tags: Labor, U.S. Congress
Research articles 1987-11-01
Organize A Meeting By Planning An Agenda
Whether you are a stay-at-home-mother or a corporate worker, you will likely have your share of meetings this year. A mother may need to organize meetings for the local church food drive or for the school PTA, while a corporate worker may be planning meetings with important clients. The point...
Tags: Agenda, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing
White papers 2007-01-01
NEWS BRIEFS: HONEYWELL NYLON SETS AGENDA FOR SURFACES...NEWMAN LEAVES WITEX CEO POST...GONZALEZ JOINS KAS AS EASTERN SALES VP.
HONEYWELL NYLON SETS AGENDA FOR SURFACES HONEYWELL NYLON SETS AGENDA FOR SURFACES
Tags: Honeywell International Inc., nylon, sales
Research articles 2003-12-15
A Leadership Agenda For The 21st Century
"This article mainly focuses upon leadership agenda for the 21st century. Some of the steps for preparing these agendas include: The buck starts where it used to stop, no loose linkage: build a senior team, champion the culture at all times, take it to the board etc. All these...
Tags: Agenda, Management, Leadership
White papers 2003-01-01
The 102nd Congress: dominated by labor agenda. (United States Congress)(National Ready Mixed Concrete Association Report) (column)
The 102nd Congress: Dominated By Labor Agenda The 102nd Congress: Dominated By Labor Agenda
Tags: Labor, U.S. Congress
Research articles 1991-08-01
Senate Republicans announce agenda for upcoming session
Senate Republican leaders announced a 2001 legislative agenda Thursday that includes a tax-cut/teachers' benefit package with an annual cost of about $172 million.
Tags: U.S. Senate
Research articles 2000-11-03
Senate Republican agenda leaves room for compromise
Senate Republicans on Wednesday offered a vague agenda for the 2007 session, leaving their proposals open for input and compromise with their Democrat counterparts.
Tags: U.S. Senate
Research articles 2007-01-25
MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge Unveils Agenda for "Brave New Web" Conference on New Media and Social Software
Agenda Includes Web 2.0 Pioneers, Technology Experts and Academic Leaders
Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, social software
Research articles 2007-01-23
Public Policy Agenda is key to government relations. (Washington Window).
Every two years, at the start at a new Congress, ASME issues its Public Policy Agenda, a compendium of its state and federal issue priorities developed through a survey of the membership. The next agenda is being released at the Board on Government R Every two...
Tags: U.S. Congress
Research articles 2002-11-01
Washington window: a public agenda: technology and politics.
Every two years, at the start of a new Congress, ASME issues its Public Policy Agenda, a compendium of public policy issue priorities developed through a survey of the ASME membership. The next agenda will he released at the meeting of the Board on G Every...
Tags: U.S. Congress
Research articles 2004-11-01
EPA's land revitalization agenda
A NEW INITIATIVE by the EPA seeks to stimulate the economy and revitalize communities by restoring contaminated properties. The "Land Revitalization Agenda" will incorporate land reuse into the EPA's Superfund, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act RCRA, Brownfields, and Underground Storage Tank hazardous-waste cleanup programs. The agenda outlines 60 items that...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2003-06-01
Regulatory agenda issued. (Noted In The Federal Register).(USDA)(Brief Article)
REGULATORY AGENDA ISSUED: USDA issued its semiannual regulatory agenda which provides summary descriptions of significant and not significant regulations being developed in agencies of the USDA in conformance with Executive Order 12866 "Regulato REGULATORY AGENDA ISSUED: USDA issued its semiannual regulatory agenda which provides summary...
Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Research articles 2003-06-02
Putting I.T. on the Short List
Advanced technology offers state governments one of the best tools to drive through this change by its ability to cut costs, enhance service delivery and create a citizen-centered government. For this reason, information technology should be a key component of each governor's management agenda. But beyond this bold statement about...
Tags: Information Technology, Agenda, Governor, Strategy, Government, Management
White papers 2003-05-14
Family life. (a 'Families First Agenda' was introduced into Congress; includes news about Hillary Rodham Clinton, computers, campaign finance, Mercosur and Panama)(Brief Article)
House and Senate Democrats unveiled a 21-point "Families First Agenda" tailored to middle-class voters. It aims to protect workers' pensions and offer tax breaks for education costs. The agenda suggested that the budget could be balanced withHouse and Senate Democrats unveiled a 21-point "Families First Agenda"...
Tags: computer, finance, Hillary Clinton, tax, U.S. Congress
Research articles 1996-06-29
ARAB STATES: INTENDED AGENDA OF WTO CONGRESS IN DOHA.(Brief Article)
A-Dustour newspaper reported on the agenda of the World Trade Organization WTO Congress to be held in Doha, Qatar, in November 2001. Among other matters, the agenda will include a motion to cancel customs fees on imported goods, in agreement with a A-Dustour newspaper reported on...
Tags: U.S. Congress, World Trade Organization
Research articles 2001-12-30
Senate Republicans set agenda for 2000
Senate Republicans announced Monday a 2000 legislative agenda focusing on economic growth, quality education, tax relief, crime prevention, sound fiscal policy and family issues.
Tags: U.S. Senate
Research articles 2000-02-15
Conflicts in the president's legislative agenda - Clinton's legislative agenda for the 1998 session of Congress - Editorial
President Clinton doesn't give up on what often appears to be his principal goal in setting policy: reconciling the unreconcilable. In too many instances, he sets pro-growth goals that he proposes to achieve with anti-growth policies.
Tags: U.S. Congress
Research articles 1998-03-01
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