Employment Minister Chris Grayling pointed to action the government was taking to boost business - through the Regional Growth Fund and enterprise zones - as well as the work experience scheme and Work Programme which was having "good success" in getting people in to work.

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First, he discovered in work with Enterprise Rent-A-Car that a key to measuring loyalty was to give priority to the enthusiastic customers, i.e. those who were delighted.

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The survey also found that the majority of respondents lack a comprehensive vision of how enterprise-wide information and technology infrastructure will work with current and future smart grid deployments.

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Work.com provides an enterprise-wide platform for managers and employees to set their own goals, share and discuss them, then hold each other accountable for accomplishing them.

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We honor folks who start a business, and the strivers and the dreamers, the risk-takers who help make our free enterprise system work.

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But Ms Teather said the government would support it in setting up as an independent, not-for-profit social enterprise "to carry on its outstanding work driving up the quality of school meals".

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Is enterprise social networking, the so-called Facebook-like model at work, starting to take off as well or is it still in its infancy?

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Eco-Actif Services, a small social enterprise in Sutton, Surrey, spent a year helping long-term unemployed people find work under the work programme.

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The idea of Work.com is to give companies a team-based (or enterprise-wide) dashboard which lets people and their managers set goals, communicate them, and then give and receive continuous feedback while the day goes on.

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