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corporate strategy
A description of a company's overall direction in terms of its general attitudes toward growth
and the management of its various businesses and product lines. Coporate strategies typically
fit within the three main categories of stability, growth, and retrenchment.
for-profit organization
Also called profit-making organizations.
These organizations depend on revenues obtained from the sales of their goods and services to
customers, who typically pay for the costs and expenses of providing the goods and services plus
a profit.
frames
An extension to HTML from Netscape. Frame extensions enable web page designers to split their
clients' browser windows into multiple, independently scrollable panels, with separate documents
in each panel. On framed web sites, hyperlinks in one frame can be programmed to update the
content of adjacent frames, making it possible for web programmers to incorporate intuitive,
visually pleasing navigation interfaces into their web sites. Frame extensions also make it
possible to launch multiple browser windows and to control the contents of each window through
hyperlinks embedded in other windows.
Although Netscape's frame extensions haven't been officially accepted by the WWW consortium as a
standard part of HTML, their widespread use throughout the Web community has made them a de
facto standard.
leading measures
Measures that, if successfully implemented, will support desired performance in other business
activities. Some leading measures can also serve as outcome measures.
Leading measures reflect the activities that contribute to the results and can be used to
control the process.
non-profit organization
Also called not-for-profit organizations.
Non-profit organizations exist not to make money, but to fulfill one of the purposes recognized
by federal law: charitable, educational, religious, scientific or literary activities. They
conduct business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a
profit motive.
They include private non-profit organizations (such as hospitals, private colleges, and organized
charities), as well as public governmental units or agencies (such as welfare departments, state
universities, and federal and local government departments).
outcome measures
Measures of desired outcome performance in activities critical to an organization's strategic
goals. Some outcome measures are also leading measures to support desired performance in
other business activities.
Measures that focused on the results of a process and are used to control resources.
PEA
PEA stands for Procurement's Executive Association.
The PEA is an informal association of civilian procurement executives that, as near as I can tell,
guide the federal government on performance evaluation and management of acquisition systems.
Get a little more info on the PEA
performance measures
A general term used to describe all measures designed to capture information about performance
related to a particular activity or process.
A measurable indicator of performance in relation to the desired result.
WebQuest
A WebQuest as defined, by Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University, is "an inquiry-oriented
activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from
resources on the Internet."
WebQuests offer an ideal model for teachers who are searching for ways to integrate the
Internet into their classroom. Each WebQuest has a clear task or problem assigned with rich
links related to a topic or curriculum content area.
Get more info on WebQuests!