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  2. IT disaster recovery - Wikipedia

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    Disaster recovery focuses on information technology (IT) or technology systems supporting critical business functions [1] as opposed to business continuity. This involves keeping all essential aspects of a business functioning despite significant disruptive events; it can therefore be considered a subset of business continuity.

  3. Addiction - Wikipedia

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    The etymology of the term addiction throughout history has been misunderstood and has taken on various meanings associated with the word. An example is the usage of the word in the religious landscape of early modern Europe. "Addiction" at the time meant "to attach" to something, giving it both positive and negative connotations.

  4. Planning - Wikipedia

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    Planning is the process of thinking regarding the activities required to achieve a desired goal. Planning is based on foresight, the fundamental capacity for mental time travel. Some researchers regard the evolution of forethought - the capacity to think ahead - as a prime mover in human evolution. [1] Planning is a fundamental property of ...

  5. Enterprise resource planning - Wikipedia

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    Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is the integrated management of main business processes, often in real time and mediated by software and technology. ERP is usually referred to as a category of business management software —typically a suite of integrated applications —that an organization can use to collect, store, manage and interpret ...

  6. Capital improvement plan - Wikipedia

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    A capital improvement plan (CIP), or capital improvement program, is a short-range plan, usually four to ten years, that identifies capital projects and equipment purchases, provides a planning schedule and identifies options for financing the plan. External links. Capital Project Management, British Columbia Ministry of Education

  7. Human contingency learning - Wikipedia

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    Human contingency learning (HCL) is the observation that people tend to acquire knowledge based on whichever outcome has the highest probability of occurring from particular stimuli. In other words, individuals gather associations between a certain behaviour and a specific consequence. It is a form of learning for many organisms.

  8. Contingency management - Wikipedia

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    Contingency management. Contingency management ( CM) is the application of the three-term contingency (or operant conditioning ), which uses stimulus control and consequences to change behavior. CM originally derived from the science of applied behavior analysis (ABA), but it is sometimes implemented from a cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT ...

  9. Change order - Wikipedia

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    Purpose. A change order is work that is added to or deleted from the original scope of work of a contract. Depending on the magnitude of the change, it may or may not alter the original contract amount and/or completion date. A change order may force a new project to handle significant changes to the current project. [2]