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Tactical decisions
middle-management decisions that involve conversion of top management's long-range desires into near-term (such as monthly) action plans to be provided to operational management.

Telecommunications
any communications over long distances, including those by telephone or telegraph as well as by computer.

Telecommuting
using a home computer with communications capabilities so that the work results travel to the office while the employee stays at home.

Teleworking
similar to telecommuting; sometimes used to refer to situations in which employees may be working at a variety of locations other than their homes and sending their work to the office electronically.

Topology
method of connecting computers in a network; examples include fully interconnected, chain, loop, star, ring, and bus.

Track
location onto which data can be stored; tracks on magnetic tape are parallel rows, and tracks on magnetic disks are concentric circles.

Transaction
any business activity, such as a purchase of office supplies or the sale of a product to a customer.

Transaction processing system
a system that keeps records of all aspects of an organization's primary business operations.

Transfer time
the time required to transfer data from storage to primary memory.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
protocols used for Internet activities as well as intranet and extranet activities.

Transnational organization
business organizational design in which global needs are combined with local needs to take advantage of some aspects of global as well as local operations.