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Most comprehensive business intelligence glossary by Vernon Prior. Market & competitive intelligence thesaurus and glossary. Terms and terminology used in business intelligence.
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Offset arrangements refer to obligatory technological activities of certain overseas suppliers. See also: International trade.
Oligopoly market is where the combined Market share of the top three companies is greater than 73.9% of the total Market and where the combined share of the second and third companies is greater than that of the market leader.
Ontology originally a branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being, the term is currently used to describe a vocabulary of terms and associated definitions or rules covering a specific domain. Thus an ontology may be regarded as a Database together with associated Information about the categories or concepts that exist in a domain, what properties they have, and how they relate to each other. See also: Classification scheme, Classify, Concept, Controlled vocabulary, Hypertext, Index, Knowledge engineering, Knowledge map, Semantic networks, Taxonomy, Thesaurus, Topic maps.
Open proprietary information includes Information gathered through Reverse engineering of legitimately acquired products and services, or through legally conducted Business intelligence operations.
Open source information is unclassified published Information. It includes non-proprietary Grey literature as well as Information published electronically (on the Internet, for example).
Operating environment , see Business environment.
Operational planning refers to organizational Planning covering the mid-term, that is, from one to two years into the future.
Operating environment , see Business environment.
Operations room , see War room.
Opportunities are favorable events or circumstances that may help a company to achieve its objectives or gain a Competitive advantage. See also: Entrepreneur, Intrapreneur, Opportunity analysis, Strategic early warning, SWOT analysis.
Opportunity analysis is the identification and evaluation of potential business Opportunities coupled with an assessment of the organization’s ability to exploit them. See also: Entrepreneur, Intrapreneur.
Optical computers use various combinations of lasers, holographs, and mass-storage media for such applications as optical character recognition, improved image clarity, and high-speed signal processing.
Optimization is a scientific approach to solving problems, the purpose of which is to improve on the subjective aspects of decision-making; thus improving operational efficiency. It calls for the mathematical formulation of the problem and an explicit statement of the desired objectives. The method consists of creating a mathematical model and using computational means to help choose the best schedule of actions among alternatives. See also: Modeling.
Organization network analysis , see Social network analysis.
Organizational culture , see Corporate culture.
Organized system is an assembly of interdependent elements and/or organized systems the physical activities of which are controlled by the interchange of Information so that they cooperate for a purpose.