Unconsciously, these words foster "us versus them" thinking and, without being aware of it, we have mentally eliminated a huge cluster of business opportunities.
Of course, the old analog cell phone had been around for years, but adoption was limited to a small cluster of business users (think Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's 1987 movie "Wall Street").
The condo is a short walk from a cluster of businesses that welcome gays and straights.
The cluster of businesses in Aberdeen has achieved a critical mass thanks to the North Sea.
Liam Bailey, global head of research at Knight Frank, said the cluster of businesses, international appeal, heritage and democratic institutions in London and New York are not easy to replicate.
The result, Saxenian argued, was that the Valley ended up with a much richer and more productive cluster of businesses, and a more fertile environment for innovation.
The deal is another strike at the heart of the tightly knit cluster of businesses linked to Nissan, which has been dismantling a cumbersome and costly corporate empire in an effort to return to financial health.
With the new factory as an anchor, they say, they can attract more investment to the area, building a cluster of businesses and academic centers that could ultimately rival Route 128 outside of Boston or North Carolina's Research Triangle.
That sort of pressure "not only pushes jobs all over the place," the professor said, "it breaks up the 50-year formation of a cluster of businesses that have learned to depend on one another for an exchange of labor, resources, supplies, maintenance services".
The team also extended this database to office buildings, so while other mapping services often randomly show a cluster of businesses that all share the same office building across a city block, the SocialRadar team organized them all under one address.
Today, the company's global work force is organized in clusters of business expertise and connected by high-speed communications links.
