Jean Roberts

Jean Roberts: Small and medium enterprise

You are viewing Jean Robert's collection of Small and medium enterprise. The following entries are available under this category:

• Skills Involved in Tendering
• Time and Task Management
• Introduction to Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Measures and Targets for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
• Understanding the relationship between Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity
• Entrepreneurial Initiative as a Sole Operator
• Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) World Conference
• Evaluation of training
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• One Man Show – the smallest of small business

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Treat Tendering as a Core Business Function

As you move into the task of preparing a tender, you will soon realise the nature and range of skills you will need to call upon – either from yourself or from your colleagues…

Six Steps Toward Improving your Time and Task Management

If you are keen to review your current style of working – no matter what your work is – then be prepared to invest some of your…

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are the means by which an SME owner/manager regularly monitors progress against the targets established within the annual business plan for the enterprise.

The annual business plan should inform both the budget and cashflow projections for…

These three qualities are equally valuable and important in relation to any level of research.  This is an extract from my 2008 book, One Man Show – the smallest of small business.  This book features my and Shakespeare’s experiences as sole…

Institute for Small Business Affairs
National Entrepreneurship and SME Development Conference
1-3 November 2004 – Newcastle-Gateshead

Abstract

A ‘sole operator’ is, in the true sense of the word, a one-person business. This paper offers a proven equation “sole…

Highlights of my attendance at the three-day 31st Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) World Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland, November 2008.

The Conference theme: International Entrepreneurship – promoting excellence in education, research and practice.

Conference Tracks:
Papers were…

There must be particular learning objectives, job-related behaviour changes in mind, and tied to an identifiable business goal and plans to evaluate the course at all four levels to see if anything happened.

There is a growing expectation by governments and philanthropic leaders that the business or corporate sector in general – and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in particular within that sector – will willingly, financially and organisationally embrace the practice of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

One Man Show – Featuring the Author’s and Shakespeare’s experiences as sole operators

The smallest of small business – featuring the Author’s and Shakespeare’s experience as sole operators

A One Man Show is often referred to as a ‘micro-business’ – a term that emphasises the business rather than the person.

This book has four main sections, illustrated by events in both Shakespeare’s and Jean’s personal and business experiences as they persevered:

• Setting out as a One Man Show
• The Resource Base of a One Man Show
• Two different – and useful – business life-cycles
• Traffic lights for One Man Show business start-ups

Jean provides a lively and thought provoking study for any potential entrepreneur considering starting a micro enterprise. The ideas are original, creative, and well researched.

Roger Cook
Centre for International and Open Learning at the Thames Valley University, London.