5. Business Evolution
The Problem of Business Evolution
This chapter describes the importance of the underlying business structure in relational database design, including business units, business politics, culture, and standards and policies. It explains optimum organizational policies and procedures structure for successful database design. As in all processes there are some general functions that are maintained in the business process that make it work more effectively. These are the functions, developed over time, that have applied to all businesses from the smallest store to the largest megacorporation. In the beginning, all businesses were started and run by one individual. The time it took for them to become megacorporations may have been ...

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