The council said it had been talking to staff about the idea of a social enterprise for over a year and more talks would be held as the business plan was developed.
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Started in 1985, when the concept of social enterprise mostly was unheard of, the founders got the following idea: Make the world a better place.
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He's been pushing the idea of creating enterprise zones here since he was in opposition.
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As far as I could tell, all of them bought into the idea that Enterprise 2.0 was a big part of the solution to a longstanding and serious challenge for their organizations.
Granted, the bulk of these are likely to be wrapped up in the enterprise, but he's not tossing out the idea of using webOS on other mobile devices.
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They are starting to put faith in the idea that private enterprise will take advantage of opportunities that are going begging.
By the prospects of a small business owner who dreams of turning a good idea into a thriving enterprise.
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And he has told them that liberalism, privatisation and deregulation are to blame for Europe's crisis: France is now committed to the idea of sheltering behind the very barriers to enterprise that have made its economy uncompetitive.
She was a devotee of the idea of paring back big government to give free enterprise room to flourish.
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This follows from his related idea that Enterprise 2.0 creates a shift in the control of organizational and management hierarchies.
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The idea should be in alignment with the overall vision and mission of the enterprise.
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.
But the enterprise zone idea is back, repackaged in the 2011 Budget by Conservative Chancellor George Osborne as a way of helping some of Britain's most economically-deprived areas to attract investment.
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The 77-year-old chairman and co-founder of New Enterprise Associates said the collection's tech orientation was his wife's idea: "She said, 'Look, you're going down to Silicon Valley every day, I think if I did something in this area it might be of interest to you, '" he said.
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