explain why the role of change agent is an important one for entrepreneurs?
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sometimes that all that is needed to save a failing business. we don't just start business we fix them too!!
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a paradigm shift is required when quality or costs of traditional suppliers devalues the current product and makes it less competitive in the marketplace.  This can occur when suppliers cheapen down their costs to manufacture parts resulting in more defects than before.
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'CHANGE IS DA ONLY PERMANENT THING'. and research is what make you change things rather develop things. Importance of Research in management of purchasing, logistics and business in general is critical. Contemporary business world is facing cut throat competition, every customer has one demand LOW PRICE HIGH QUALITY PRODUCTS. To satisfy this customer need we have to be on a lookout on new ways and means of improvement in overall business. Purchasing and Logistics are to very important factors of business and it can make a big difference in your business, therefore, research on both is very important to stay competitive in the business. We have to improve the delivery times at very affordable costs and we have to have very qualty/reliable inputs to make our products reliable. We cant get away without concentrating on all these aspects.
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A successful entrepreneur is not necessarily a born leader or even a particularly good sales person. Instead, their talent is found in the ability to take risks, hiring the right people to help them, and identifying what they need to learn to succeed. Opportunity used to knock, but now it just honks a little as it drives past. The successful entrepreneur hops on before the horn blows. When you get right down to it there are as many ways to make a successful business, as there are successful businesses. You simply go make it happen.
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The greatest and rarest resource on earth.  The ability to invest all your money and time on uninsured future profits.  Meaning just because you start a business, doesn't mean you are guaranteed anything.  An owner has to have so many talents it is rare to see a start up business thrive over the long run.  \n\nFirst they need an idea or nitch in an existing market.\n\nSecond they have to raise capital to buy a building and employees and office supplies and ...\n\nThird they need the ability to do every job required in the business or the ability to find qualified people to fill the roles.\n\nFinally they need the forethought to expand or contract their business to maximize profits. \n\nWithout all these and more their business will fail.
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This question can have different answers depending on the kind of agency (traditional marketing? web-only shop? ad sales? startup?). \n\nIn general, a project manager is responsible for taking "ownership" of  a product or initiative and making sure it moves forward. Sometimes this means hiring the team to make it happen, but usually you're just herding a team already in place. You help set deadlines, navigate obstacles, track the budget and timeline, facilitate communication and write reports about the progress. You often have to give presentations or interact regularly with both upper management and middle/lower management and worker bees so it helps if you can talk intelligently about such wide-ranging topics as HR, technical specs and art/design.\n\nEssentially, you have to keep things moving in all areas, because if your project grinds to a halt or goes down in flames - it's your fault.\n\nOn the flip side, you get a little credit when it goes flawlessly.
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Could mean change in management, change in market conditions. What they are really after is to see how quickly you can adapt to a changing environment and what actions you take.
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The ability to excel where others plod on. Successful enterpreneurs should be able to see an opportunity and exploit it. They should know when to stop when something is not working, how to get the best from people, and always have a mentor who is proven to guide them who they trust.\n\nWe don't give up at the first problem.
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A muse is an inspiration, not a problem-solver.\n\nWhat you want to do is describe yourself as a consultant or a facilitator.  That's fine for business problems.  But if you do this for personal problems, you leave yourself wide open for liability if your advice backfires.  Be very very careful.
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- Control your quality level\n- Control your production capacity\n- Making custom items according to your client needs\n- Good choice for long-run investment\n- Higher profit margin\n- Item unqiuness
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Go to this very useful link:\n\n\nhttp://www.entrepreneur.com/ebusiness/0,6292,,00.html
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In Uganda,to improve the business;\n1 To educate the people with skills of business knowledge\n2 Giving them the ways of a good business set up\n3 Giving them guidelines and directions for a god business
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To understand that change is inevitable. Almost everything in your lifetime will change. Including you.
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A good one has the charateristics of an effective communicator.  That includes ability to work with people (known as the system users) to understand their problem that a system solution can solve; to work with technical people (known as programmers) to put the system solution that really solves the system users; to follow system development life cycle process to ensure that the solution can be readily maintained and enhanced.\nIt is important because lack of it creates more or bigger problem than the original.
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Customer is king for the business. Without customers the business does not have a reason to survive. Understanding the customer and their needs should be the primary driver of R&D Activities. Market needs are also important and must be studied carefully to supplement knowledge needed to direct R&D activities.
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Entrepreneurship is hard because it involves forecasting the demands of consumers. Consumer demands can change on a whim, and nobody knows EXACTLY what the future holds. \n\nThose entrepreneurs who forecast correctly, and satisfy consumer demands in the best and most efficient manner, earn a profit. \n\nThose who are slow to anticipate, or don't satisfy consumer demands at all, suffer losses.\n\nFor a brief (yet informative) reading on the relationship between entrepreneurs and consumers, check out the following link from the Mises Institute:\n\nhttp://www.mises.org/humanaction/chap15sec4.asp
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An IT analyst has many resposiblities\nas a consultant to management(Regarding Adoption of new Technologies in the project)\nAs a change agent.(In charge of new assignment and to design new systems in relation with customer)\nAs a Project Manager to manage the project.