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14:15 Apr 14, 2018 

I think you're missing the point as well. The text in the parentheses (by default) is obviously an explanation of the text before. I translated word for word to show that the meaning of your suggested answer for the word in question is wrong. I agree with Oleg that "napravleniya" here means activities of the business, not businesses. I asked for translation of just that one word after all.

23:50 Apr 13, 2018 

You are translating words, so, naturally, what your are getting is "All products (projects, businesses?) of the enterprise are separated into... " which makes for horrible non-native English coming from a legitimate native speaker of English, of all others. You claim to be a writer, right? So think like one and phrase this the way an English speaker writing in English would phrase it using the legitimate English terms from the horse's mouth, so to speak, i.e. the verbiage normally used to describe that damn Boston thing. This way, you easily come up with something to the tune of all businesses, product lines, hot pirozhkis and what not being classified into or qualified/described as blah blah. Besides, a predpriyatiye IS a business in natural English. This is not a shag vpravo, shag vlevo, rasstrel na meste situation. This is not even rocket science or a transcript of a deposition. This is business writing. It need not be translated verbatim. It needs to be palatable - or no one will bother reading it.

I really don't know how to explain it any better. Like I said, do as you see fit.

23:10 Apr 13, 2018 

The Misha, I appreciate your response. However, in the given sentence "businesses" does not fit. Все товары (проекты, направления) предприятия подразделяются на...
All products (projects, businesses?) of the enterprise are separated into...
Businesses of an enterprise? No, I don't think so. But again, thanks.

22:41 Apr 13, 2018 

The sentence you posted here clearly indicates this is about the Boston Consulting Group's classification of business, product lines, etc. that no business school book fails to mention, whether deservedly or not. So what your translation should say is that all products, projects or businesses may be classified into blah blah blah, or something similar - because what you are doing here is essentially back-translating the poorly rehashed Russian translation of the original verbiage, and in such cases (unlike when back-translating drug approval paperwork) the original terminology always governs. I mean, that is if you want your end product to sound anywhere near half-competent on the subject matter it deals with.

I am not so sure about the other question, I've only seen that one single sentence. That said, don't let anything I say stop you and by all means do as you see fit. What do I care?

Good luck with your project.