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BizOntology The Business category generally lists and categorizes sites that cover:
Business as an activity:
Business as an entity:
- Sites covering industrial and commercial activities involving the exchange of commodities, services, or financial resources.
- Sites offering supporting services, information and resources to business and businesspeople, such as trade associations, educational institutions and training programs, business and economic news, events, etc.
- Official web sites for and about corporations and commercial enterprises (including subsidiaries) that manufacture, distribute, market and sell goods and services to other businesses (B2B) and/or consumers (B2C). Note: If the purpose of the site is to serve as a Shopping destination for consumers (or consumers and businesses), the site should be listed in the Shopping branch.
- Sites that exist solely to provide information about a company and its goods and services. Note: a company's brand name sites that focus on providing information to consumers are listed under Home/Consumer Information . See the Consumer Information FAQ for more information.
- Sites that focus on the theoretical, practical or operational aspects of a business enterprise: accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, etc.
Sites generally not listed in the Business category:
- Shopping sites: Sites that exist primarily to sell goods and services directly to the consumer should be listed in the Shopping branch. See the Shopping category description for more detail.
- Commercial sites (particularly "dot.coms") whose main purpose is to provide information and resources to the consumer, as an end-user of the product or services (e.g. Google, ConsumerSearch.com, XML.com, MP3.com, etc.)
- A company's brand name sites that focus on providing information to consumers are listed under Home/Consumer Information . See the Consumer Information FAQ for more information.
- Local businesses: sites for companies serving a very limited geographic area, like a single state (or equivalent), city or metro area should be submitted to the Regional branch.
Asset management, as defined by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, is "a systematic process of maintaining, upgrading and operating physical assets cost-effectively."Infrastructure Asset Engineering and Management is concerned with the creation, renewal, refurbishment, management and disposal of infrastructure assets over time. In short, the engineering and management of their whole life performance. Infrastructure assets can take many forms. They can be those normally associated with the 'heavy civil engineering' sector, for example, roads, railways, airports, flood defences, ports and harbours, water treatment plants, power plants. Equally, they can be those normally associated with the 'building' sector, for example, schools, healthcare facilities, retail and industrial outlets, housing developments, and different types of government buildings. The management and engineering of infrastructure assets and their performance over time is important for! countries in the developed and developing world.
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