The language of Competitive Intelligence: Part four

✍ Scribed by Vernon Prior

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Weight: 47 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1058-0247
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6386(199931)10:1<84::aid-cir12>3.0.co;2-m

✦ Synopsis

This is the final part of a four-part series covering some of the terms used in business or competitive intelligence. Readers are asked to offer contributions, modifications, or suggestions so that a more comprehensive glossary may result.

Recall refers to the number of relevant items retrieved as a proportion (percent) of the total number of relevant items in an information collection.

Re-engineering is the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical, contemporary measures of performance, such as cost, quality, services, and speed.

Registered design establishes rights on the novel, ornamental, and visual aspects of an article.

Relationship card is the generic name for a smart card that performs a range of functions including both financial and personal services (such as travel bookings, health records, passport details, frequentflyer programs, transactions records, driver's license, and social security information).

Request for Comments (RFC) is the name for the result and the process for creating a standard on the Internet. New standards are proposed and published on line, as an RFC.

Research impact assessment uses combinations of methods to ascertain the effect of research on a specific field of endeavor, on allied fields, on related technologies or systems, and on operations. The main approaches include qualitative (peer review), semi-quantitative (retrospective studies), or quantitative (bibliometrics).