Acquisition

Acquisition (English: acquisition, acquirere from the Latin " acquire " or acquisitio " acquisition " or " acquisition " ), or acquisition, has different meanings depending on the context.

In strategic management acquisition involves the purchase of a company or its part-acquisition, to come into possession of his performance elements and / or determine and can to control the use of resources. See also corporate takeovers, mergers and acquisitions.

In sales, acquisition means the acquisition of customers, orders, for example through personal sales calls by canvassers.

In procurement acquisition can be used to refer to all activities that are associated with the procurement of a product or service.

Acquisition with the result or the destination of the above-mentioned activity is often referred to, i.e., the received job, as well as an established companies.

Often, acquisition, used together with the name of Erwerbsguts or profit-making as a composite noun - such as employees, job, company or software acquisition.

Other examples

• Acquisition as an active agent collecting money and material is referred to as Fundraising
• Acquisition of ( means essentially orders), sponsors, members, investors, projects, ...
• Staff acquisition as Mitarbeiter-/Personalbeschaffung; an important part of function of the procurement process in the context of ' human resources '.
• Software procurement; See software acquisition

In an expanded sense of ' sourcing, Acquire ' acquisition ', for example, is also used in the following contexts:

• The input of technical information, such as signals, temperatures, etc.
• A concept for inheritance in the web application server Zope