Alibris, which expects to break $10 million in sales this year, is a network centric business, where more buyers and sellers make the network more valuable to all the existing buyers and sellers.
In the emerging field of database centric business process management, inter-organizational networks of people, information and communication systems are often described by the interplay between individual goals and actions and the strategic dependencies among individuals and subgroups.
These days, forward-looking financial services firms are doing everything they can to evolve from being sales-oriented, product-centric businesses to more consultative, client-centric businesses.
"We see the Meadowlands as the next hotbed of activity for Web-centric businesses," he said.
Cendant's cash flow-centric businesses lend themselves to private-equity financial engineering.
Very few restaurants reach the one-ton-per-week threshold, and many food-centric businesses like supermarkets have had food-waste reduction policies on their radar for years.
It's dog heaven around here, with at least six canine-centric businesses within a few blocks, and a dog run at 48th Avenue and Vernon that's being overhauled and expanded.
The spaces are rented by design-centric businesses: furniture showrooms, galleries, photography studios, architecture, design and construction firms, a garden shop, a winery and even a small community theater.
And until fairly recently many LAN-centric businesses didn't care if they had a plan.
Consumer-centric businesses are seeking innovative strategies to fulfill increasing consumer demands with diverse interactive relationship such as consumer-to-consumer (C2C) and consumer to business (C2B) in addition to traditional business-to-consumer (B2C).
