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| Business policy controls, influences, or regulates the actions of an enterprise and the persons working in it but
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| without any enforcement. The purpose is more to guide an enterprise
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| <p>
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| Business policy tends to be:
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| </p>
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| <ul>
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| <li>
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| less structured
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| </li>
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| <li>
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| less discrete or not atomic
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| </li>
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| <li>
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| less carefully expressed in terms of a standard vocabulary
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| </li>
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| not directly enforceable.
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| </li>
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| </ul>
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| <p>
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| Business policy is the base for business rules.
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| </p>
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| <p>
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| An example of policy is:" A claim needs to be processed in 60 days"
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