 Tom Laing |
Tom Laing"Facilitating positive change and health"
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 Overview of Enterprise Administration - money, money, money Entrepreneurial Activities - marketing, sales, promotions Integration - me, myself and I Operations Understanding Context Management |
 Understanding the environment that you are operating in, especially, in the context of opportunities and threats, and ability to strengthen or weaken your operational framework. What's changing in the world that is giving rise to your business opportunity and what is likely to threaten your business success. Be flexible and adaptive. Keep informed for not only the where are we now scenario but also we do we want to be and how do we intend to get there. · Social - is concerned with the people aspect, the social changes, changing consumers -end users preferences. Consider the effect of the baby boomers - middle ageing. · Technology - is changing rapidly, how will you keep up to date of what's changing . How does it impact on your business · Economics - businesses react differently in good times and in bad times. Where is the economic cycle up to and how will your business respond to the changes · Environmental issues - not only, how important is it to your business to be seen to be green but how does your business fit in the world. · Politically - what legislation direct affects your business., what legislation is being considered here and overseas Understanding the External environment Information for people wanting to set up in NZ a good resource Quick MBA - Strategic Management also good resource Clusters another term for Networking but in a cooperative sense |
Tom's Blog site KEA network for expat Kiwis NZ Edge More NZ links to the world |