Attitudes, beliefs, character, and sets of important assumptions that members of an organization share.

A group of employees from various functional areas of an organization,  assembled as a team and empowered to solve problems that cross organizational boundaries; people working toward a common goal and made of  people with diferent functional expertise.

Areas of activity in which favorable results are absolutely necessary to reach  goals; key areas where things must go right for the business to fourish; elements that are necessary for an organization or project to achieve its mission.

A technique used to determine the duration of a project by looking at the  sequence of activities and their fexibility in scheduling.

The longest path through all project activities (as represented in a network  diagram) that determines the duration of the project.

A turning point or decisive moment in events; a period at which leadership  is tested and organizations are stressed.

A business or individual to which money is owed.

A rating for a company or individual that indicates credit risk based on historical behavior.

A report of a company or an individual’s creditworthiness; the result of an  investigation into the credit background.

A risk assessment resulting from a formal evaluation of an individual’s or  company’s credit history and capability of repaying debt.