Business development definition

Total Quality Management (TQM) is a eompany enltnre that allows it to provide qnality goods and services at the lowest cost in order to achieve cnstomers satisfaction and, at the same time, ensnre satisfactoiy business development by continuous improvements. The definition of TQM shown in this shde is taken from the British Standard 7850. 

What is business development This is usually the first question I have to answer whenever I m asked what I do for a living by people outside the pharmaceutical industry. The answers I try to give are often tailored to the audience and what they are likely to quickly understand from their own experience. However, as few people have any idea that such a role exists beyond some hazy idea of marketing they usually smile politely and suddenly remember there is someone on the other side of the room to whom they must say hello immediately. So a definition of business development, at least as I have seen it performed since it comes in many different guises, will be useful. I define it as any activity that alters the status quo of the business. This includes activities such as ... 

Problem definition A colleague from the cookies product development department of your company has come to your office to describe what appears to be a significant business issue. Complaints of an off-flavor in your chocolate chip cookies, sold throughout the country, are being reported. Samples of the product are being shipped from the plant by overnight air. Production has been stopped. A recall of all product is under consideration Identification of the off-flavor and its cause are now your top priority ... 

Presently there is no definitive text in HPLC that specifically addresses the needs of the busy pharmaceutical scientist on the pivotal subject of pharmaceutical analysis. This handbook strives to offer a complete yet concise reference guide for utilizing the versatility of HPLC in drug development and quality control. The Handbook of Pharmaceutical Analysis by HPLC can be broadly classified into six major sections ... 

EEL (front-end loading) The process by which a company develops a detailed definition of the scope of a capital project that meets corporate business objectives. 

A list of the major fine-chemical companies and their sales development from 2002 to 2004 is shown in Table 2.3. A ranking of the 12 companies according to the size of their fine-chemical business is not possible because each of them has a different definition of the term fine chemicals. ... 

For the dissemination and the establishment of the ChL business model in different industries and different countries a clear definition of ChL is essential. As the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) plays a leading role in the development and implementation of ChL around the world, it was UNIDO that defined - together with an international working group -the term of Chemical Leasing (see Chapter 2). 

What is accomplished by adhesion promotion treatments in IC manufacturing should actually be referred to as wafer substrate preparation, and not adhesion. Adhesion in the structural sense, as experienced in airplane composite material parts attachment, is not accomplished by silane wafer processing treatments except for the PI applications discussed early in this paper. The term adhesion, as it is used here, refers to a more practical definition—that is, resist image adhesion. Nevertheless, this type of adhesion is essential to the huge international semiconductor business, and the early silane work of Plueddemann and others was essential to early wafer adhesion process development. 

As with other types of planning, the initial step of business planning is to define the business or service proposed. After exploring the business concept (see above), Ted likely already will have developed a clear idea of the business proposal. To formalize a definition of the business, he should develop a specific statement of the purpose of the program. This statement is also called a mission statement and was discussed in Chapter 3. The mission will crystallize the aims of the program and help to steer the direction taken in other steps of the planning process. 

The various steps in the chain leading to the introduction of a new chemical entity to the markets of an existing business are shown in outline in Figure DIO. These are the basis for a stage-gate development plan at the individual chemical product level. The basic steps following the target definition are ... 

The purpose of a letter of transmittal is to refer to the original instructions or developments that have made the report necessary. The letter should be brief, but it can call the reader s attention to certain pertinent sections of the report or give definite results which are particularly important. The writer should express any personal opinions in the letter of transmittal rather than in the report itself. Personal pronouns and an informal business style of writing may be used. 

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