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Business process reengineering

Business process reengineering (BPR) is a management method that radically redesigns core business processes for dramatic gains in cost, quality, service, and speed, introduced by Michael Hammer in 1990.

Business Proposal (사내맞선)

Business Proposal (사내맞선), also known as A Business Proposal or The Office Blind Date, is a 12-episode 2022 SBS Korean rom-com starring Ahn Hyo-seop and Kim Se-jeong, adapted from a Kakao web novel, peaking at 11.6% Nielsen rating and remade in Hong Kong.

Business route

A business route is an auxiliary highway that branches from a main numbered highway, passes through a city's business district, and rejoins the main route.

Business rules engine

A business rules engine, also known as a rule engine, is software that executes business rules like IF/THEN policies separately from application code, so policy changes need no reprogramming.

Business school

A business school, also known as a B-school, is a higher-education institution or university school teaching management disciplines such as finance, marketing, entrepreneurship, and strategy.

Business Source License

The Business Source License (BSL) is a source-available software license created by MariaDB that allows free non-production use and converts code to an open-source license on a set future date.

Business Standard

Business Standard: Indian English and Hindi business daily founded 1975 in Kolkata by ABP Group, Kotak-controlled since 1997; distinct from the unrelated US site businessstandard.org.

Business studies

Business studies is the academic field covering how businesses are created, financed, marketed, operated, and managed, spanning accounting, finance, marketing, and strategy, and the largest US bachelor's degree field.

Business telephone system

A business telephone system is a private, multiline telephone network an organization uses to handle internal and external calls, most often a private branch exchange, or PBX.

Business valuation

Business valuation, also called corporate or enterprise valuation, is the process of estimating a business's economic value through income, market, and asset approaches, for tax, litigation, transaction, and reporting purposes.

Business-level strategy

Business-level strategy is the plan for how one business unit competes against direct rivals, distinct from corporate-level and functional-level strategy, with Porter's cost leadership, differentiation, and focus as its classic generic forms.

Business-to-business

Business-to-business (B2B) is commerce in which one company sells goods or services to another company, differing from consumer selling in longer buying cycles and negotiated pricing.

Businessman (film)

Businessman is a 2012 Telugu action crime film directed and written by Puri Jagannadh, starring Mahesh Babu as gangster Surya, with Kajal Aggarwal and Prakash Raj; released at Sankranthi 2012, it grossed over Rs 90 crore worldwide.

BusinessObjects

BusinessObjects is a business intelligence software suite developed by Business Objects and now sold by SAP, best known for its semantic layer that lets users query databases without SQL.

Businessperson

A businessperson, also called a business man, is a person who works in business, especially in an important position in a company or as a company owner.

Büsingen am Hochrhein

Büsingen am Hochrhein is a German municipality in Baden-Württemberg with about 1,500 residents, entirely surrounded by Swiss territory and joined to the Swiss customs area since 1964.

Busiris (Aphroditopolis)

Busiris, also called Aphroditopolis, was a town of ancient Egypt in the 22nd Upper Egyptian nome, on the eastern Nile bank near modern Atfih, linked to the goddess Hathor.

Busiris Facula

Busiris Facula is a 369-km-wide palimpsest (ancient relaxed impact scar) on Jupiter's moon Ganymede at 16.0N, 215.3W, IAU-approved in 1985 and named for an Egyptian town of Osiris.

Buskerud

Buskerud, Norwegian county (fylke) code 33, re-established 1 January 2024 from Viken's division; 18 municipalities, 272,981 inhabitants (2026), seat Drammen, area 14,694 km2.

Busoga

Busoga is a region and historical confederation of chiefdoms in eastern Uganda between Lake Victoria and Lake Kyoga, unified under British rule and led today by an elected Kyabazinga.

Buson school

The Buson school (蕪村派) was the circle of haikai poets and painters that formed around Yosa Buson in late eighteenth-century Kyoto, reviving the style of Matsuo Bashō.

Buspirone

Buspirone (Buspar) is an azapirone anxiolytic and 5-HT1A partial agonist approved by the FDA in 1986 for generalized anxiety disorder, with delayed 2-4 week onset, no GABA or benzodiazepine activity, and no abuse potential.

Busr ibn Abi Artat

Busr ibn Abi Artat (بسر بن أبي أرطاة) was an Arab commander for the Umayyad caliph Mu'awiya, known for a brutal 660–661 expedition through the Hijaz and Yemen.

Bussa

Bussa, also recorded as Busso or Bussoe, was an African-born enslaved man who led Barbados's 1816 slave rebellion and was named a National Hero in 1998.

Bussa's Rebellion

Bussa's Rebellion was a slave rebellion in Barbados begun on 14 April 1816, led by the enslaved African Bussa and crushed by British forces within three days.

Bussana

Bussana is a locality in Sanremo, Liguria, Italy, where the remains of a Roman villa of about the 1st to 2nd century AD stand along the via Iulia Augusta.

Bussard ramjet

The Bussard ramjet, also called the Bussard interstellar ramjet or ramscoop, is a hypothetical interstellar propulsion concept proposed by Robert W. Bussard in 1960 that collects hydrogen with a magnetic scoop.

Busselton

Busselton, Western Australia: coastal city on Geographe Bay, 230 km south of Perth, seat of the City of Busselton (pop. about 45,000), home of the 1.8 km Busselton Jetty, gazetted 1847.

Bussock Camp (United Kingdom)

Bussock Camp is an Iron Age hillfort in Bussock Wood near Chieveley, West Berkshire, England, its banks and ditches surviving as wooded remains and protected as a scheduled monument.

Bust Down

Bust Down is a 2022 Peacock comedy series created by and starring Sam Jay, Langston Kerman, Jak Knight, and Chris Redd as four casino employees in Gary, Indiana; one six-episode season, canceled, Metacritic 76.