A person signed up to receive benefits from a health insurance plan. Dependents of an insured are excluded.

Manages membership in a health insurance plan. Department accountable for enrollment process in a company or group.

Defined period of time with a specific start and end date for registering in a plan to receive benefits. Typical of health care insurance coverage.

Held up as the way to NOT run a company. Former energy corporation rampant with corporate corruption and accounting fraud. The company positioned itself as a leader in the industry by falsifying

1. A corporation, business, firm, company, or registered group with a designated purpose. 2. More typically, a group, driven by initiative and resourcefulness, incorporated or not, organized to conduct entrepreneurial activity.

Process of linking various enterprise system together in support of the corporate world-wide business. Also involves maintenance and time upgrade or replacement of legacy (in-place) systems and hardware with new software and

Those computerized systems that integrate and support the world-wide, corporate business structure. Functionally includes all aspects of a firm’s operations and processes. These include accounting, finance, human resources, inventory control, manufacturing, marketing,

Strategic design or ‘blueprint’ of corporate business, not the computerization. This blueprint is a business flow diagram of the business components employed in specific functional operations, the interrelationships of those components, and

The situation defined by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) where two or more interrelated businesses are treated as one enterprise. Usually involves and requires certain activities: sharing personnel, skills, contracts, or

An 1990 international program intended to accomplish three goals: 1) engage North, Central and South America to increase inter-regional trade, 2) engage the InterAmerican Development Bank to set up, manage, and monitor

Java-platform server-side component. Improves rapid development of mission-critical business applications. Makes applications generically cross-platform portable.

Liability for crime(s) committed by a constituent business, department, or unit that is applied and accountable corporate-wide.

Legal principle that Liability for crime(s) committed by a constituent business, department, or unit can be applied and made accountable corporate-wide.

An organization’s mission, functions, processes and information flows depicted at the strategic level. Used as the reference for constructing all other models, decomposing the strategy into ever-increasing levels of detail.

A multiple (factor applied to value) that depicts a company as a potential acquired would. This multiple is applied to calculate the value of the involved company. It factors in the debt

Corporate-wide, world-wide, all-encompassing communications backbone. Links every computer and associated devices at every company location to every other computer at every other company location.

Organized, computerized, periodic analysis of customers, sales, and market data. Computerized analysis trends detect patterns of demand, usage, and service requirements. Patterns are feedback to devise new or improved procedures and policies

Known also as enterprise resource planning.

Computerized management of all enterprise resource planning. Integrated, multi-module software system expedites identifying and planning the resource needs of an enterprise. ERP is accounting oriented. Provides a single user-interface for the entire

A holistic RISK MANAGEMENT process that combines a company