The phrase "a useful enterprise" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an activity or project that is beneficial or serves a purpose.
Example: "The initiative to promote renewable energy is a useful enterprise that can lead to a more sustainable future."
Alternatives: "a beneficial endeavor" or "a valuable undertaking".
Most of us have surely forgotten about Lyle and Erik, but I remember Hardwick's cool view of their father's celebrated head for business: "This is an indefinable endowment, a sort of genetic luck perhaps, in which one need not invent anything or even start up a useful enterprise.
This passage from one of my posts on day one — Oct. 24, 2007 — still serves well as an articulation of why I think blogging (at least the way I do it) is a useful enterprise: The strength of science lies in the trajectory of understanding more than in any single finding, and the most durable ideas emerge from conversation, not monologue.
It is not clear, however, that asking ambiguous questions of this sort is a useful enterprise, since different respondents will in effect be answering different questions.
This disunity that can be ascribed to unjust institutions, economic or otherwise, is accompanied by a deeper discord caused by the war, by that revenue-eating & man-eating machine the defense establishment, which regards the war as only one of its useful enterprises.
In theory, an invention needs to satisfy all three of these requirements to be considered patentable (though, shamefully, many software patents granted these days fail on all three counts).Such an invention machine could be a useful adjunct for enterprises seeking to create new drugs, devices, gizmos, materials or services.
The desert setting also lent a useful symbolism to the enterprise.
Price is probably where it counts most in the tablet and Android markets, and LG is keeping that quiet for the LG Pad until IFA kicks off on September 4. While it certainly isn't as glamorous as the iPad, the device could be a useful workhorse, particularly for enterprise customers or those seeking a family tablet, assuming that the price is sweet enough.
Convo, a platform that lets workers post messages to and converse with others in their company in real time, is today releasing an update with a couple of notable features that alternately make the app more fun to use, and likely also a lot more useful (for those who use enterprise social media services to actually, you know, get work done).
Juniper's enterprise multiple, a useful metric in assessing deal-making prospects, stands well below an industry average of 13.3 for the U.S. telecommunications equipment makers.
The SharePoint plug-in isn't nearly as sexy as as the Google Docs app but still offers a useful set of tools for enterprise users.
As I have written elsewhere, because Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code contains few barriers to filing by a foreign corporation, and its results are binding on any financial institution that does business in the United States, it provides a useful tool to restructure global enterprises.
