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Krastev, Radostin, Mohamad Ahmad, Arkadiusz Puciato, and Radostin Krastev. "Military business success." Monterey California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/9920.
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The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program was created in 1982 to stimulate research and development among small businesses while providing the government innovative technical and scientific solutions to challenging problems. In SBIR, Phase I awards are made for research projects to evaluate the scientific and technical merit of an idea. Phase II awards are made to further develop selected Phase I projects that demonstrate the greatest potential. In Phase III commercialization occurs, however no SBIR funding is available. This research identifies and measures the variables that shape the success of the Naval Air System Command's (NAVAIR) SBIR program from the stakeholders' point of view. As different stakeholders have different perspectives on how they perceive success in this program, this study identifies the variables that shape the success of NAVAIR's SBIR program from the firms' viewpoint. To identify the variables that shape the success of NAVAIR's SBIR program from the firms' perspective, we conducted a qualitative research. The analysis and results were generated based on the interviewees' perceptions and responses. This study concluded with the factors influencing the success of the firms in the SBIR and from the findings several recommendations were made for the SBIR program and future research.
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Wallace, Jeffrey S. "Family-Owned Businesses: Determinants of Business Success and Profitability." DigitalCommons@USU, 2010. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/594.
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The purpose of this study was to examine many factors associated with family-owned businesses that lead to business success and profitability. The panel data used in this study came from the 1997 and 2000 waves of the National Family Business Study (NFBS). Many independent variables from the 1997 wave (e.g., age, gender, managerial activities, business size, home-based, business problems) were tested to predict business success and profitability (dependent variables), which were variables from the 2000 wave. Some of the descriptive analyses indicated that, compared to female managers, male managers perceived less business success, participated more in managerial activities, managed older businesses, experienced more business problems, and experienced fewer business cash-flow problems. Compared to businesses that are not home-based, home-based businesses reported less perceived business success, less business profitability, were smaller businesses, experienced fewer business problems, had fewer business liabilities, and had managers with poorer health and less education. Overall, the ordinary least squares regression analyses yielded results indicating that managerial activities, home-based businesses, business age, business problems, and business cash-flow problems were all statistically significantly associated with perceived business success. Business size was shown to be significantly associated with business profitability. Implications of the findings, limitations of the current study, and recommendations for future research were presented in the final section.
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Jonckheere, Michael. "Independent management consulting business success." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1593127.
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The purpose of this study was to determine the key factors involved in operating a successful independent management consulting business. For those working in the independent management consulting industry or looking to begin, this study aimed to provide information to help define what success means and identify the most important contributors to achieving that success. The study gathered data via online survey and semi-structured interviews from people who have owned an independent management consulting business. Trends in the data were identified and compared with current research to determine the key factors in operating a successful independent management consulting business.
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Choi, Chung For. "Enhancing business process reengineering success." HKBU Institutional Repository, 1996. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/59.
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Vosloo, Abri. "Digital business strategy : critical business model components for digital business success." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/52349.
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The current business landscape is vastly different from that of a decade ago, due to the continuous technological advancements influencing all aspects of business strategy. This digital evolution impacting organisations has increased the necessity for organisational leaders to incorporate new digital capabilities into their digital business strategies and the design of their digital business models. There is thus a need for organisations to design digital business models that enable them to not only remain competitive, but to also capitalise on the opportunities available to them in the new digital world.
The findings of this research indicate that six business model components that were postulated to form part of a digital business model design are statistically significant in influencing the success of a digital business strategy. In addition, the results indicate the cumulative effect these business model components have in determining the success of the digital business strategy. Furthermore, the results enable the ranking of the various business model components regarding their importance in cumulatively influencing the success of the digital business strategy.
Comparative and multivariate data analysis was conducted on 97 employees who operated on a strategic level within organisations, where a digital business strategy was present and/or where the organisation offered digital products and/or services to the market. As such, only middle to senior level employees who were involved with digital strategy development and execution formed part of the research.Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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Adamala, Szymon, and Linus Cidrin. "Key Success Factors in Business Intelligence." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för management, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-5773.
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Business Intelligence can bring critical capabilities to an organization, but the implementation of such capabilities is often plagued with problems and issues. Why is it that certain projects fail, while others succeed? The theoretical problem and the aim of this thesis is to identify the factors that are present in successful Business Intelligence projects and organize them into a framework of critical success factors. A survey was conducted during the spring of 2011 to collect primary data on Business Intelligence projects. It was directed to a number of different professionals operating in the Business Intelligence field in large enterprises, primarily located in Poland and primarily vendors, but given the similarity of Business Intelligence initiatives across countries and increasing globalization of large enterprises, the conclusions from this thesis may well have relevance and be applicable for projects conducted in other countries. Findings confirm that Business Intelligence projects are wrestling with both technological and nontechnological problems, but the non-technological problems are found to be harder to solve as well as more time consuming than their technological counterparts. The thesis also shows that critical success factors for Business Intelligence projects are different from success factors for IS projects in general and Business Intelligences projects have critical success factors that are unique to the subject matter. Major differences can be predominately found in the non-technological factors, such as the presence of a specific business need to be addressed by the project and a clear vision to guide the project. Results show that successful projects have specific factors present more frequently than nonsuccessful. Such factors with great differences are the type of project funding, business value provided by each iteration of the project and the alignment of the project to a strategic vision for Business Intelligence. Furthermore, the thesis provides a framework of critical success factors that, according to the results of the study, explains 61% of variability of success of projects. Given these findings, managers responsible for introducing Business Intelligence capabilities should focus on a number of non-technological factors to increase the likelihood of project success. Areas which should be given special attention are: making sure that the Business Intelligence solution is built with end users in mind, that the Business Intelligence solution is closely tied to company‟s strategic vision and that the project is properly scoped and prioritized to concentrate on best opportunities first. Keywords: Critical Success Factors, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Data Warehouse Projects, Success Factors Framework, Risk Management
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Jakes, Lyndabelle Virgil. "Success Strategies of Small Business Owners." Thesis, Walden University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10751428.
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In the United States, 20% of newly established small businesses, including small businesses in the life insurance industry, fail within 2 years, and over 50% of them fail during the first 5 years. The purpose of this multiple case study was to identify and explore the strategies that life insurance brokerage owners use to sustain business operations beyond 5 years. Porter’s 5 forces model served as the conceptual framework for exploring this subject matter. Owners of 3 separate small life insurance brokerage firms in Texas, who sustained their businesses beyond 5 years, participated in semistructured interviews. A secondary source of data was relevant company documents. Methodological triangulation and member checking assured the reliability and validity of the interpretations. Through thematic analysis and supporting software, 5 themes emerged: exceptional customer service, relationship-building, efficient promotional strategies, regular training of salespersons, and hiring the right employees. The application of the findings of the study could contribute to positive social change by reducing unemployment and thereby catalyzing an economic environment supporting employees, families, and communities.
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Turner, Susan Janet. "Success Factors of Small Business Owners." ScholarWorks, 2015. http://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1721.
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Small business owners represent 99.7% of all U.S. employer firms, employ half of the private sector employees, and provide 43% of the total U.S. private payroll. However, 50% of new small business startups fail within the first 5 years of operation. The purpose for this multiple case study was to explore what skills, knowledge, and strategies small business coffee shop owners use to succeed in business beyond 5 years. Systems theory, chaos theory, and complexity theory provided the conceptual framework for exploring the research question of this multiple case study. To identify and explore the factors for maintaining small business' operations, the population for this study was 3 small business owners of 3 coffee shops in Duval County, Florida who sustained their businesses for a minimum of 5 years. The data sources were semistructured interviews, the business' websites, social media information, and site visit observations. Based on methodological triangulation of the data sources, analytical coding, and analyzing the data using mind mapping and software, 3 themes emerged: owner networking and the business as a customer to customer networking venue, business plans' initial challenges and addressing subsequent changes, and a need for marketing differentiation. Potential implications for effecting positive social change include increasing the rate of small business success, and increasing the financial security for owners, employeees, employees' families, and their communities.
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Onyenego, Ovuefelomaloye. "Small Business Owners' Strategies for Success." Thesis, Walden University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10975877.
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Small businesses represent 99.7% of all employers in the United States and account for 63% of new jobs; however, 50% of small businesses fail within 5 years of operation. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore strategies that some small restaurant owners used to succeed in business for longer than 5 years. The sample population for the study was the owners of 3 small restaurants in the northeastern region of the United States who have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in operating a successful business. Chaos theory provided the conceptual framework for the study. Data collection methods were semistructured interviews and review of company documents and archival records. Member checking of interview transcripts was used to strengthen the credibility, reliability, and trustworthiness of the findings. Based on the methodological triangulation of the data sources and using the van Kaam process, themes emerged. The principal themes that emerged were networking, customer satisfaction, and leadership. The findings from this study may contribute to positive social change by providing strategies that small business owners need to be successful and possibly improve the prosperity of the community and local economy.
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Onyenego, Ovuefelomaloye London. "Small Business Owners' Strategies for Success." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5925.
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Small businesses represent 99.7% of all employers in the United States and account for 63% of new jobs; however, 50% of small businesses fail within 5 years of operation. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore strategies that some small restaurant owners used to succeed in business for longer than 5 years. The sample population for the study was the owners of 3 small restaurants in the northeastern region of the United States who have a minimum of 5 years' experience in operating a successful business. Chaos theory provided the conceptual framework for the study. Data collection methods were semistructured interviews and review of company documents and archival records. Member checking of interview transcripts was used to strengthen the credibility, reliability, and trustworthiness of the findings. Based on the methodological triangulation of the data sources and using the van Kaam process, themes emerged. The principal themes that emerged were networking, customer satisfaction, and leadership. The findings from this study may contribute to positive social change by providing strategies that small business owners need to be successful and possibly improve the prosperity of the community and local economy.
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Jakes, Lyndabelle. "Success Strategies of Small Business Owners." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4967.
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In the United States, 20% of newly established small businesses, including small
businesses in the life insurance industry, fail within 2 years, and over 50% of them fail during the first 5 years. The purpose of this multiple case study was to identify and explore the strategies that life insurance brokerage owners use to sustain business operations beyond 5 years. Porter's 5 forces model served as the conceptual framework for exploring this subject matter. Owners of 3 separate small life insurance brokerage firms in Texas, who sustained their businesses beyond 5 years, participated in semistructured interviews. A secondary source of data was relevant company documents. Methodological triangulation and member checking assured the reliability and validity of the interpretations. Through thematic analysis and supporting software, 5 themes emerged: exceptional customer service, relationship-building, efficient promotional strategies, regular training of salespersons, and hiring the right employees. The application of the findings of the study could contribute to positive social change by reducing unemployment and thereby catalyzing an economic environment supporting employees, families, and communities.
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Walker, Elizabeth A. "Small business owners' measures of success." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2001. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1039.
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Small business plays a significant part in the economy of all nations because of its revenue contribution and as a generator of employment. In the Australian context, small businesses account for 85% of all businesses, employ 40% of the total workforce and contribute $75 billion annually to Industry Gross Product. All of these numerical indicators highlight the financial importance of small business, which is also how small business success has traditionally been measured. These traditional success measures have been by increases in financial performance criteria, such as return on investment, turnover or profit, or by increases in number of staff.
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Genade, Marius. "Defining key success criteria to measure project success for Warehouse management system implementations." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/95589.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.The storage and distribution of goods in warehouses have been around for centuries. Information systems and technology have enabled business to run various different functions, like accounting, successfully. Companies soon realised the additional benefits technology can bring to their operations. Increase in product throughput and increase in product range are some of the examples that add additional complexity to the warehousing and distribution functions. In order to cater for the additional complexity, to gain improved customer service levels and gain a strategic advantage in delivering the right product, in the right place at the right time, companies are implementing warehouse management systems (WMS). However, the WMS implementations are complex and involve various different stakeholders. Failed WMS implementations can negatively affect the operations. There are many risks associated with the WMS implementations and many companies have had to issue profit warnings in the past due to failed implementations. Various viewpoints on project success exist but this research report has aimed to provide a framework of key success criteria which organisations can use to evaluate the success of their implementation. Since WMS are generally rolled-out across various sites within a specific supply chain, measuring and evaluating the success of the first project can guide the project team to achieve more project success in the future, eliminating the risks associated with failed implementations. This study clearly defines the difference between project success, project management success, critical success factors and key success criteria. Literature on the topic is limited and therefore this study looked at various sources like peer-reviewed literature, popular literature and case studies. The findings of the report indicate that there is a list of ten different key success criteria which organisations can focus on in order to measure and improve their project success. Taking ownership, change management, managing stakeholder expectations, communication, training and testing are some of the key success criteria that were identified. This study concludes by presenting a framework which organisations can use to measure the success of their WMS implementation.
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Axelsson, Mattias, and Johan Sonesson. "Business Process Performance Measurement for Rollout Success." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för programvarusystem, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-2920.
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Business process improvement for increased product quality is of continuous importance in the software industry. Quality managers in this sector need effective, hands-on tools for decision-making in engineering projects and for rapidly spotting key improvement areas. Measurement programs are a widespread approach for introducing quality improvement in software processes, yet employing all-embracing state-of-the art quality assurance models is labor intensive. Unfortunately, these do not primarily focus on measures, revealing a need for an instant and straightforward technique for identifying and defining measures in projects without resources or need for entire measurement programs. This thesis explores and compares prevailing quality assurance models using measures, rendering the Measurement Discovery Process constructed from selected parts of the PSM and GQM techniques. The composed process is applied to an industrial project with the given prerequisites, providing a set of measures that are subsequently evaluated. In addition, the application gives foundation for analysis of the Measurement Discovery Process. The application and analysis of the process show its general applicability to projects with similar constraints as well as the importance of formal target processes and exhaustive project domain knowledge among measurement implementers. Even though the Measurement Discovery Process is subject to future refinement, it is clearly a step towards rapid delivery of tangible business performance indicators for process improvement.Vikten av förbättringar i affärsprocesser i syfte att öka produktkvaliteten i mjukvaruindustrin ökar stadigt. Kvalitetsansvariga i industrin behöver effektiva och påtagliga verktyg för beslutsfattande i utvecklingsprojekt och för lokalisering av förbättringsområden. Mätningsprogram är en utbredd ansats för kvalitetsförbättring i mjukvaruprocesser men användning av heltäckande kvalitetsmodeller är resurskrävande. Dessa fokuserar inte primärt på mätpunkter vilket blottar behovet av en snabb och direkt teknik för identifiering och definiering av mätpunkter i projekt som saknar resurser eller behov av heltäckande mätningsprogram. Denna uppsats undersöker och jämför rådande kvalitetssäkringsmodeller med mätpunkter, vilket resulterar i Measurement Discovery Process utifrån valda delar av PSM- och GQM-modellerna. Processen appliceras på ett industriellt projekt med nämnda förutsättningar, vilket skapar en uppsättning mätpunkter som sedan utvärderas. Detta ligger även till grund för utvärdering av Measurement Discovery Process. Appliceringen och utvärderingen av processen synliggör dess generella applicerbarhet på projekt med liknande begränsningar såväl som vikten av formella processer i målprojektet och omfattande domänkunskap hos de som implementerar mätningarna. Measurement Discovery Process är föremål för framtida förbättringar men samtidigt ett tydligt steg mot snabbt framtagande av konkreta prestandamått för kvalitetsförbättring i affärsprocesser.
Mattias Axelsson: +46 708 67 53 81 Johan Sonesson: +46 709 72 74 30 / +46 40 12 48 03
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Schumacher, Wolf [Verfasser]. "Barriers to Business Reengineering Success / Wolf Schumacher." München : GRIN Verlag, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1160189706/34.
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Bolin, Stacey. "Behaviors Contributing to Native American Business Success." ScholarWorks, 2015. http://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1672.
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Native Americans start fewer businesses than do other U.S. populations, and the receipts and employment of those businesses are 70% lower than the U.S. average. However, little knowledge exists concerning Native American (NA) business success. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the likelihood that attitudes toward entrepreneurship, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control predict business success amongst NA business owners. Understanding the factors that contribute to NA business success is imperative to developing best practices for business owners and business support agencies. The theory of planned behavior served as the theoretical framework for this study. Of the 550 invited NA business owners registered within a single tribe in the South Central United States, 79 participated in this study. A binary logistic regression analysis produced conflicting results: significant goodness-of-fit yet insignificant individual predictors. Information obtained from this study could assist NA and other underdeveloped business populations with understanding factors influencing entrepreneurial endeavors; however, readers must interpret findings with caution because of conflicting logistic regression results. NA business formation and success could enhance economic prosperity and decrease unemployment in NA communities.
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Mienie, Carel Johannes Hendrik. "Perspectives on multi-generational family business success." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96218.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.Family businesses struggle to be sustainable over multiple generations. In fact, most family businesses do not survive past the second generation. With this study the goal of the researcher was to provide family businesses with a conceptual model which could assist them to become multi-generational financially sustainable. This goal was achieved by answering the main research question, namely: What are the critical elements that a family business should consider continuously in order to ensure multi-generational financial sustainability? Those critical elements that a family business should consider were firstly explored through a literature review process. From this literature review a preliminary conceptual model was developed. Secondly, seven family business experts, with a total of 176 years of family business experience among them, were selected in order to gain their perspectives on the critical elements that family businesses should consider to be sustainable over multiple generations. They were also requested to evaluate the preliminary conceptual model and were invited to make suggestions for the improvement thereof. This exercise provided the researcher with ample information in order to create a valid final conceptual model, which in this study is referred to as: The Family Business Success Map. During the final part of this research study, the Family Business Success Map was applied to an existing multi-generational family business in order to evaluate the processes which it followed during two situations of succession, and some recommendations were made. This study can contribute towards the field of family business management through the development of a conceptual model, the Family Business Success Map. This can be used by owners and advisors to help family businesses to implement those critical practices that successful multi-generational family businesses have followed. The study found that family businesses needed to become more structured and professional. It further found that there were five critical practices which successful family businesses followed in order to be sustainable over the long term. Those five critical practices were conceptualised in the Family Business Success Map. The basis for all five practices is good governance, transparent communication and an entrepreneurial orientation. The challenge for family businesses is to grow their businesses faster than their families. In order to accomplish this, family businesses need to invest continuously in the entrepreneurial development of their management. This study found that the first practice which successful family businesses followed was that they formally planned for succession. This plan should clearly state what the ground rules of succession are and should be revisited and adjusted continuously. The plan should provide for both ownership and management succession. The second practice which successful family businesses followed was that they were governed by Advisory Boards. These boards should meet regularly and should preferably include some independent members. Continuous development of board members is important. This forms part of the critical element: the practice of leadership. Furthermore, it was found that the third practice which successful family businesses followed was that they had a formal strategic plan in place. They also recommended that the trusted advisors of the family businesses should be involved in the process of formulating the strategic plan. Family harmony, the fourth critical practice, could be accomplished through transparent and comprehensive communication from the businesses to the families. Through the establishment of formal family meetings, family matters that were not business-related, could be dealt with. The last of the five critical practices which successful family businesses followed was the use of cost accounting management practices, not only in their normal business decisions, but in strategic decision-making as well.
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Bugaeva, Maria, and М. В. Бугайова. "Business key success factors: essence and issues." Thesis, CUNTU, 2016. http://dspace.kntu.kr.ua/jspui/handle/123456789/5585.
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Hiers, Christina. "Small Aviation Business Success Strategies for Profitability." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2828.
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Ninety-five percent of all aviation businesses are small businesses; from 2009-2012, small aviation business operations decreased by 10.2% and resulted in a loss of $4.4 billion in revenue. The purpose for this multiunit case study was to explore what strategies small aviation businesses leaders used to reduce or control operating expenses for profitability. The sample comprised 3 small aviation businesses located in Middle Tennessee. The conceptual framework for this study built upon systems theory and sustainability theory. The data were collected through semistructured interviews and company documents. Member checking was completed to strengthen creditability and trustworthiness. Based on the methodological triangulation of the data sources collected, 5 emergent themes were identified after completing the 5 stages of data analysis: buying or purchasing power, being customer focused, having the right employees, having the right equipment, and leadership. When small aviation business owners incorporate these themes into their business model, they may increase the prosperity of their companies, the employees, their families, the surrounding communities, and the local economy. The findings from the study may contribute to social change by providing insights and strategies for small aviation business leaders in reducing operating costs for profitability. The data from this study may contribute to the prosperity of the small aviation business leaders, their employees, their families, the surrounding community, the local airport, and the local economy. By reducing operating expenses, small aviation business leaders will have more money to invest in the local community and the economy.
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Barnes, Tawny. "Success Factors for Minority Small Business Sustainability." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6398.
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Minority small business owners significantly contribute to national and local economies. Only 50% of small firm owners sustain their businesses longer than 5 years. The purpose of the multiple case study was to explore the management strategies that minority small business owners used to sustain their businesses for longer than 5 years. The study's population consisted of 4 minority small business owners in the midwestern region of the United States to explore management strategies necessary for maintaining minority small firm operations. The conceptual framework for the study was general system theory. Data sources included semistructured interviews, social media information, company documentation, and company website information. Based on the methodological triangulation of the data sources, analytical coding, and analyzing the data using a qualitative data analysis software, 3 themes emerged: networking with other small business owners, strategic planning, and building strong customer and employee relationships. The study findings might contribute to positive social change by providing knowledge about effective management strategies to minority small firm owners, thereby creating jobs, augmenting local and national economies, and increasing profitability.
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Ratcliff, Diana. "Success Strategies for Small Service Business Owners." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5406.
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Small business owners struggle to sustain their businesses over time. According to U.S. Census data in 2014, only half of all small businesses survived beyond the first 5 years of operation, and only a third survived longer than 10 years. Grounded with the strategic contingency theory, the purpose of this multiple case study was to explore strategies small service business owners used to succeed beyond the first 5 years of operation. The target population consisted of 4 owners of small service and retail businesses in Arlington, VA, with fewer than 50 employees who have succeeded in business longer than 5 years. Through a process of methodological triangulation, data collected from financial documents, publicly available records, and external sources supplemented semistructured interview data. Using thematic analysis by coding narrative segments, 3 themes emerged including developing a unique marketing strategy, developing strategic leadership skills, and required business skills for sustainability. Successful unique marketing strategies emerged from understanding customer needs. The results from this study could benefit business owners by improving business success rates, which would have a positive economic effect on local community, including job creation, and sustainable economic stability. The implications for positive social change might include the reversal of small business failure trends through the application of successful business strategies.
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Ul-Ain, Noor <1990>. "Three essays on business intelligence system success." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/17805.
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Today, business intelligence (BI) systems have become a critical foundation for several organizations. BI systems have consistently been ranked among the top most priority of CIOs due to their ability to transform huge amount of data into organizationally-valued information to fulfill current business needs and faster decision making. However, the success of these systems is still questionable, as in many cases, BI systems have failed to yield the expected value for organizations. Literature shows that majority of prior research either discussed the benefits of BI systems or identified the factors that could improve organizational performance. None of the studies focussed to comprehensively count on adoption, utilization, and success (AUS) of BI systems, providing an appropriate success metrics, and proposing factors that can improve the success of BI systems. Therefore, the overarching aim of the thesis is to; i) present comprehensive knowledge about the current state of BI system AUS, ii) provide a success metrics to measure the success of BI system, iii) identify the factors to assess BI system use and decision-making performance at the individual level. The findings revealed a detailed and comprehensive knowledge of the current state of BI system AUS. In addition, the results revealed a success metrics for measuring the success of the BI system. The empirical analysis demonstrated the significance of system factors i.e. system quality and information quality, and human factors i.e. user competence for improved decision-making performance, which in turns, increase the potential of success. The research will provide direction for researchers and practitioners to understand the ways to obtain the maximum value from implemented BI systems.
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Chen, Chun-I. Philip. "Factors Affecting Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce Success: An Empirical Investigation." NSUWorks, 2010. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/118.
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It is generally believed that Business to Business (B2B) e-commerce has a great impact on business performance improvement. Considerable research also shows that another dependent variable, B2B e-commerce success, can be a good overall measure of B2B systems. This paper investigated and examined the impact of several factors, which are either internal or external to the firm on B2B performance improvement and B2B e-commerce success. It is suggested that the various factors affect B2B success through business performance improvement.
A research model was developed to test and evaluate these factors. A survey instrument was developed to examine the relationships between these factors and business performance. Survey data was collected online from 143 companies in the U.S.A. and Taiwan where their B2B e-commerce systems were operational for more than 1 year. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) technique was used to assess the measurement and the structural model.
Analyses and results of the pooled survey data suggest that the following factors are significant in the B2B e-commerce environments: (a) alignment of business and e-commerce strategy has a positive impact on business performance, (b) strong relationships between the trading partners have a positive influence on business performance, and (c) B2B e-commerce success is significantly influenced by business performance improvements. Thus, firms that seek to implement successful B2B systems should focus on business performance improvements.
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Sinaj, Jonida. "Self-Service Business Intelligence success factors that create value for business." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för informatik (IK), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-100076.
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Business Intelligence and Analytics have changed the business needs, but the market requires a more data-driven decision-making environment. Self-Service Business Intelligence initiatives are currently providing more competitive advantages. The role of the users and freedom of access is one of the essential advantages that SSBI holds. Despite this fact, there is still needed analysis on how business can gain more value from SSBI, based on the technological, operational and organizational aspects. The work in this thesis serves to analysis on the SSBI requirements that bring value to business. The paper is organized starting from building knowledge on the existing literature and exploring the domain. Data will be collected by interviewing experts within the BI, SSBI and IT fields. The main findings of the study show that on the technological aspect, data is more governed and its quality is improved by implementing SSBI. Visualization is one of the features of SSBI that boosts quality and governance. On the digital capability aspect, the end-users need training and there is found a rate of impact of SSBI on the main departments in an organization. It is discussed how SSBI implementation affects the companies that do not have BI solution. The final conclusions show that in order for SSBI to be successful, a solid BI environment is necessary. This research will provide future suggestions related to the topic and the results will serve both, the companies that have implemented SSBI and the ones that want to see it as a perspective in the future.
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Yaru, Usman Isa. "Strategies for Small Business Enterprise Success in Ireland: A Case of Three Businesses." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3854.
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In 2012, only 50% of Irish small firms survived in business for more than 5 years. The purpose of this qualitative, explorative case study was to explore strategies some Irish small firm owners use to succeed in business beyond 5 years. The case population consisted of 3 small business owners operating in Lucan, County Dublin, Ireland who had been managing a profitable small business venture beyond 5 years from beginning operations. The conceptual framework was the competitive theory of entrepreneurial orientation. Data collection included semistructured interviews with the 3 participants, which also involved member checking and triangulation with business documents to strengthen credibility and trustworthiness of interpretations. Three broad themes emerged after completing a 5-stage qualitative data analysis: an embedded and consistent entrepreneurial attitude, internal management of firm-specific dynamics, and management of external elements affecting the business' operating environment. The firms' owners developed schemes to counter the effects of consumers' lower purchasing power from economic downturns by enabling customers to purchase products through flexible financing arrangements. The findings of this study may contribute to positive social change by informing the efforts of small business owners to sustain their operations beyond the first 5 years. Increasing the rate of business success can lead to employment of more people, better standards of living for employees, and concomitant benefits for their communities.
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Basu, Dipannita. "Afro-Caribbean businesses in Great Britain : factors affecting business success and marginality." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.549660.
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This thesis is an exploratory study of the factors affecting success and marginality of Afro-Caribbean small business through the experiences of Afro-Caribbean business owners in the food industry in Manchester. The thesis argues that an understanding of Afro-Caribbean business development and the factors that underly business success and marginality can only be understood in the light of the broader structures and processes that have given rise to the patterns of AfroCaribbean migration and settlement within Britain. It is within these broader processes that the factors underlying success and marginality are examined through interviews, case stUdies and non-participant observation. The factors underlying success and marginality are examined for two types of businesses. Firstly, those businesses which are dependent on the customer patronage of their own ethnic group (ethnicmarket- dependent businesses). Secondly, those businesses which are dependent on the customer patronage of a wider, non-ethnic customer base (wider-market-dependent businesses). The study concludes that the encouragement of Afro-Caribbean small business ownership as a palliative for the socio-economic ills faced by this community can only be achieved in tandem with policies that provide equality of opportunity in the broader economic and social allocatory systems of British society.
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Giardino, Timothy John. "Industry Best Practices Contributing to Small Business Success." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2728.
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Small business owners generate jobs within the local community, but half of new business owners often fail to sustain operations for the first five years. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore strategies that small business owners in central Texas used to sustain their businesses beyond the first 5 years. Schumpeter's theory of economic development grounded the study. Data collection included semistructured face-to-face interviews with a purposeful sample of 20 small business owners due to their success in creating strategies resulting in sustaining their businesses beyond 5 years in a postrecession business environment. All interpretations from the interview data included member checking to validate the credibility of the findings. Using the van Kamm method for thematic analysis, four themes emerged that included conducting business near federal and state organizations, having a business mentor, improving competitive positioning by focusing on improving both the quality of goods and services as well as innovating the customer experience, and adapting to rapidly changing economic conditions and destabilizing events with optimism and perseverance. Of these, the two most successful strategies entrepreneurs employed to improve survivability was conducting business near federal and state organizations with concentrated levels of workforce employees for sustained levels of returning business, as well as having one or more business mentors as an external source of entrepreneurial mentorship or information. Social change implications for small business owners include the potential to provide new strategies for small business sustainability, reductions in local unemployment rates, and improved community-based networks.
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Norris-Jones, Renee. "Relationships Between Business Performance Variables and Solo Criminal Law Practitioner Business Success." Thesis, Walden University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10638890.
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Growing numbers of America’s 1,281,432 active licensed attorneys open their own law firms due to strained employment opportunities. With 50% of small businesses failing within 5 years, and solo law offices accounting for 75% of attorneys in private practice, there is a need for preparing solo criminal law practitioners for business success. Some solo criminal law practitioners do not understand the critical business performance variables that impact small business success. The total population for this quantitative correlational study included solo criminal law practitioners from the Philadelphia Bar Association Legal Directory and Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers members. Barney’s resource-based theory (RBV) and Lussier’s nonfinancial success-failure business prediction model were the foundational frameworks of this study. I used Lussier’s nonfinancial success-failure questionnaire to collect data via a self-administered survey. A Kendall tau correlation was used to determine the relationship between Lussier’s 16 independent variables measuring success or failure and a single dependent variable of ‘level of profits’ for the 31 participants. 31 participants (4%) is a very low response rate. Increased participation is needed for better research results. Fifteen of the 16 variables showed no relationships with the level of success. Only 1 hypothesis showed a relationship between the type of start-up plan developed by the firm and the level of success (τ = .322, p = .032). The findings from this study support the Small Business Association’s definition of a business plan as a living roadmap for business success. The implications for positive social change include the potential to increase employment opportunities by directly impacting the economy in creating economic expansion.
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Koch, Hope Arlene. "Business-to-business electronic marketplaces: membership and use drivers." Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/51.
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Business-to-business (B2B) electronic marketplaces (e-marketplaces) are one of the most heralded developments in recent years. These marketplaces bring together businesses buying and selling goods and services in an online buying community. E-marketplaces promise to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of procurement activities by replacing traditional manual processes with automated electronic procedures and by expanding the number of available trading partners. Despite the technology availability and the high potential benefits, very few e-marketplaces have succeeded. This three-year study identifies and investigates two major B2B e-marketplace stumbling blocks: attracting a sufficient number of members, and then influencing these members to use the e-marketplace.
This investigation uses a variety of qualitative techniques to solicit information from nearly fifty executives representing four B2B e-marketplaces with contrasting membership and use levels. Within each e-marketplace, the study solicited information from high and low use organizations, buying and selling organizations, and a nonparticipant organization. The interview data was analyzed using line-by-line analysis from grounded theory. The analysis involved assimilating the unique stories of each manager into drivers that affect e-marketplace membership or use. These drivers were then compared to membership levels and/or use levels.
The analysis resulted in three research models. Each research model is a data-driven representation of factors driving B2B e-marketplace membership, B2B e-marketplace use, and a particular organization's B2B e-marketplace use. Each model contains several unique drivers and offers a comprehensive picture of what is happening in e-marketplaces.
These findings enhance management's understanding of e-marketplaces, their role in business, their challenges, and ways of overcoming these challenges in order to reap the benefits of e-marketplace participation. This study brings one of the first grounded theory investigations of B2B e-marketplace membership and use to the limited academic research in this area. This research offers insights to a number of theories, including transaction cost economics, institutional theory, resource dependency theory, and public goods theory.
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Thompson, Alan. "Entrepreneurship and business innovation." Thesis, Thompson, Alan (2006) Entrepreneurship and business innovation. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/356/.
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This study has examined the knowledge required for the publication of an Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation (E&BI) focused teaching text. The research design was based on a constructivist, interpretive paradigm, and utilised a qualitative methodology to support the development of a framework and content for a text. Data collection occurred through formal research, discovery and exploration of knowledge rather than verification, and was subject to my interpretation arising from my participation as an academic.
The analysis of data required a conceptual framework to be developed consistent with the research paradigm, and be so designed as to provide a way for me through a participatory process, to identify and evaluate knowledge in E&BI and investigate the research questions. The study rationalised that E&BI educational programs must first be consistent with, and reflective of, the mission of the institution providing such programs, and also, must address the learning needs of students. Previous research undertaken for this thesis had clearly identified a strong demand for material on E&BI that combined theory and practice with case studies drawn from real world entrepreneurial practices.
The outcome of this study resulted in the design of a formal text that was suitable for use by secondary, community and adult education institutions within Australia, for delivery to both a digital and print audience and representative of international E&BI good practice. The text 'Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation' was published in 2005.
The published text was designed to provide new entrepreneurs and existing Small to Medium Enterprise owners with a practical guide on how to pursue business success based on established entrepreneurial and enterprise management techniques. The thesis has explicated the scholarly coherence and originality of the published work, and further places the text within a pedagogical framework.
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Thompson, Alan. "Entrepreneurship and business innovation." Thompson, Alan (2006) Entrepreneurship and business innovation. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/356/.
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This study has examined the knowledge required for the publication of an Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation (E&BI) focused teaching text. The research design was based on a constructivist, interpretive paradigm, and utilised a qualitative methodology to support the development of a framework and content for a text. Data collection occurred through formal research, discovery and exploration of knowledge rather than verification, and was subject to my interpretation arising from my participation as an academic.
The analysis of data required a conceptual framework to be developed consistent with the research paradigm, and be so designed as to provide a way for me through a participatory process, to identify and evaluate knowledge in E&BI and investigate the research questions. The study rationalised that E&BI educational programs must first be consistent with, and reflective of, the mission of the institution providing such programs, and also, must address the learning needs of students. Previous research undertaken for this thesis had clearly identified a strong demand for material on E&BI that combined theory and practice with case studies drawn from real world entrepreneurial practices.
The outcome of this study resulted in the design of a formal text that was suitable for use by secondary, community and adult education institutions within Australia, for delivery to both a digital and print audience and representative of international E&BI good practice. The text 'Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation' was published in 2005.
The published text was designed to provide new entrepreneurs and existing Small to Medium Enterprise owners with a practical guide on how to pursue business success based on established entrepreneurial and enterprise management techniques. The thesis has explicated the scholarly coherence and originality of the published work, and further places the text within a pedagogical framework.
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Claire-Woldt, Lynnette. "Business success : entrepreneurial visions from the early stage /." view abstract or download file of text, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3181093.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2005.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 172-183). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Mpongoshe, Lukhanyiso. "Critical factors for business success in co-operatives." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020041.
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Many countries that have achieved economic development have a dynamic co-operative sector which contributes substantially to the development of these economies. From a global perspective, co-operatives have been proven to be flexible in meeting a wide variety of social and economic human needs such as job creation, alleviation of poverty and building of communities. With the drive to decrease poverty in South Africa, there has been an increased interest to support co-operatives with the intention to provide employment, social development and building communities/ community care. It seems, however, that South Africa has not yet reached the same momentum in the co-operatives movement as elsewhere in the world and the economy is still characterized by a high unemployment rate and a low growth rate (Van der Walt, 2002). This study is an attempt to determine the factors for business success in co-operatives by assessing the strengths and weaknesses of co-operative businesses within the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality in the Eastern Cape. The study includes an extensive literature review on the nature and prevalence of co-operatives in South Africa where challenges faced by South African co-operatives and particularly those in the Eastern Cape Province, are indicated. It also highlights international best practice and reveals that for co-operative success, apart for functioning by the International Seven Cooperative Principles, knowledge and expertise in business management are absolutely necessary so that co-operatives can be profitable and sustainable. With this knowledge, an adapted form of the Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA) Small Business Assessment Tool was used to formulate the questionnaire and to review business management literature. A survey conducted involved fifty-one co-operative members on the database of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Business Unit. The opinions of the respondents were compared with the guidelines provided by the literature in the study in order to identify the strengths and weaknesses of these co-operatives, which then determine the critical success factors for business success in co-operatives. The empirical results show that the co-operative members understand co-operative principles and function through them. They have a fairly general knowledge of business management. The results also show significantly positive correlations between Marketing Management, Financial Management, Operations Management, Human Resources Management and General Management, on the one hand, and the business success of co-operatives, on the other hand. This indicates that these respondents recognize the importance of these business functions in the success of their businesses. However, failures and weaknesses experienced in these areas lead to the recommendations that they need to be mentored as they cannot put this knowledge into application, and secondly, they need financial assistance and support to sustain the co-operative businesses.
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Dayan, Oren. "Strategies to improve business success in selected industries." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/938.
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Successful economies are dependent on successful industries.The present study explores how business success could be improved in three selected industries, namely the motorcar, high-technology and food manufacturing industries. These industries are vital to growing the economy of countries. The present study made a significant contribution towords identifying a theoretical model to improve the business success of the motorcar, high technology amd the food manufacturing industries. The study showed that various combinations of product launching stategies (distribution channel development, product image, third-party agreements, pricing, e-business, and e-saving), as well as organisational variables (TQM and market culture) are important agreements to achieve increased sales growth and CRM effectiveness.
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Zimmerman, Mary-Jo. "Exploring the Role of Bookkeeping in Business Success." Thesis, Walden University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10113720.
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Small businesses support local economies by creating jobs and providing products and services, yet 50% of them fail within 5 years and only 30% of them survive for 10 years or more. The purpose of this qualitative explanatory case study was to explore how bookkeeping strategies helped 1 small business owner to sustain business growth over time. The sample was comprised of 1 small business owner who has been in business at least 5 years, experienced success, and achieved sustainability in Wake County, North Carolina. Systems theory served as the conceptual framework for this study. The data were collected through a semistructured interview and review of company documents. Transcript review and member checking were completed to strengthen credibility and trustworthiness. Based on methodological triangulation of the data sources collected, 3 themes emerged: the accountant as an advisor, the accounting system and processes, and the relationship between owner and accountant and between accountant and employees. The findings from this study may contribute to social change by providing insights and strategies for small business owners, accountants, and academics to rethink how to approach business. Accountants with advisory and management accounting skills could benefit small business owners. Future accounting students could prepare to help small business owners by gaining advisory and management accounting skills. The data from this study may contribute to the success of small business owners’ growth, sustainability, and prosperity and, subsequently, benefit their local economies.
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Jones, Richard. "Measuring the business success of enterprise systems projects." Thesis, City, University of London, 2016. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/16911/.
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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are integrated application software packages that meet most of the information systems requirements of business organisations. ERP, or more simply enterprise systems (ES), have constituted the majority of investment in information technology by global businesses over the last two decades and have had a profound impact upon the way these businesses have been managed. Yet there is not a good understanding of how the business success, as opposed to the implementation project success, of enterprise systems projects can be evaluated. Of the two success concepts, extant literature places more emphasis upon project success rather than business success. This research is directed at exploring the relationship between planned business success, generally included in ERP project business cases, and subsequent, empirical, post-implementation measures of business success. The study involved the interviewing of 20 key informants from both ERP adopting companies and ERP consulting firms to answer the research question of ‘how do businesses evaluate the business success, as opposed to the project implementation success, of enterprise systems?’ Using 10 a priori categories derived from the literature, 100 correlated categories were identified from interview data by use of a three stage coding process; 25 categories were selected from this larger group to identify relationships that were the most pertinent to the central research question. The key findings of the research were that the strength of the ERP system business case was generally determined by three main categories of business driver; strategic business change, a lower cost business model and business survival. These categories of business driver then determined the criteria for business success applied to the project in post-implementation stages. Where lower cost business models, often involving shared service centres and outsourcing of these centralised functions, were the driver, the business case metrics were more likely to be used for measurement of business success. Otherwise there was generally either a dissociation of benefits estimates in business cases from subsequent success measurement or simply an absence of estimated benefits. This framework for the evaluation of the business success of enterprise systems has advantages over the delivery of estimated, a priori, business benefits because: (1) The assumptions underlying the initial estimates of benefits will generally be invalidated because of the changed business environment prevailing after the lengthy implementation of a systems project. This makes comparisons with empirical post-implementation measures of business success of reduced value. Further, measures of business success based upon delivered benefits assume a degree of causality between the new ERP system and business benefits. However, it is often difficult to disentangle benefits from new business processes enabled by the enterprise system from benefits derived from other business initiatives. (2) Actual, realised business benefits of a new IT system are often not measured for organisational and behavioural reasons. For example, there may be a lack of continuity of project stakeholders over the implementation period. Or more simply, people are reluctant to study what are viewed as past and irreversible events. (3) A final factor is the absence of accounting or other measurement systems to evaluate actual benefits, often the result of the replacement of legacy accounting systems used to estimate the initial planned benefits. This research also adds considerably to current literature on the implementation of enterprise systems, which has generally studied project success rather than business success because of the relative ease of measurement of project implementation success.
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Dell'Aquila, Mary Elizabeth. "Factors Contributing to Business Process Reengineering Implementation Success." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3291.
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Organizational leaders continue to use business process reengineering (BPR) as a process improvement methodology even though BPR implementations have had low success rates. To increase BPR success rates, organizational leaders must understand what specific factors contribute to successful BPR implementations. Grounded in Lewin's field theory, the purpose of this nonexperimental, cross-sectional study was to examine the impact of gender and education on BPR. Data collection consisted of nonprobability convenience sample of 122 members from the professional networking website LinkedIn and the professional organizational website American Society for Quality. Data were gathered from a 6-point Likert-type scale survey instrument based on Hammer and Stanton's pre-identified BPR failure factors. The MANOVA results indicated no significant gender, education, or gender and education interaction effect on a linear combination of perception of BPR success factors, F (33.00, 318.00) = .591, p > 0.05, partial eta squared =.058. The results of this study might contribute to social change by helping organizational leaders understand factors that do not appear to be related to successful BPR implementations. The elimination of these factors could allow organizational leaders to focus on other factors for successful BPR implementations. Successful BPR implementations might lead to increased organizational profits, which could allow organizational leaders more opportunity and increase corporate social responsibility, all of which may directly affect the quality of life in a community.
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Russell, Calvin Lewis. "Service-Disabled Veteran Small Business Owners' Success Strategies." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2378.
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The federal government has been inconsistent in meeting the mandated contracting set-aside goals of 3% to aid service-disabled veteran small business owners. Guided by the general systems theory, the purpose of this qualitative exploratory case study was to explore what strategies an owner and 2 senior managers of a small service-disabled veteran-owned business in the Washington, DC metropolitan used to obtain federal contracts. The owner and senior members represented those responsible for strategic vision, development of business opportunities, and the company acquisition process. Data were collected from semistructured face-to-face interviews and corporate documents. Member checking and transcript review were completed to strengthen trustworthiness of interpretations of the participants' responses. Based on the methodological triangulation of the data sources collected, 6 themes emerged from the data analysis as key strategies to obtain federal contracts: business practices, business development of opportunities to attain growth, marketing to obtain opportunities to bid, networking to gain industry knowledge on trends and markets, understanding federal government contracts which emphasized the federal acquisition system access and availability of procurement information, and contract bidding which emphasized the importance of solution development. The findings from the study may contribute to social change by providing insights and strategies for service-disabled veteran small business owners in sustaining profitability through obtaining government contracts. The data from this study may contribute to the prosperity of the veteran small business owners, their employees, their families, and local communities.
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Gable, Guy Grant. "Consultant engagement success factors." Thesis, University of Bradford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.332872.
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Kim, Yong Jin. "Measuring web-based business to business support system success based on user satisfaction." Full text available online (restricted access), 2002. http://images.lib.monash.edu.au/ts/theses/KimYJ.pdf.
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Goel, Kanika. "Potential role of business process standardization (BPS) on business correspondent (BC) model success." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/118666/1/Kanika_Goel_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis investigated the potential influence of Business Process Standardization on the success of the Business Correspondent Model - an outsourcing model devised to enhance financial inclusion. Through structured literature reviews and the conduct of multiple case studies, the study developed detailed conceptualizations of 'Business Process Standardization' and 'Business Correspondent Model success' and concluded the positive influence of Business Process Standardization on the Business Correspondent Model's success. The findings provide a sound basis for future research on Business Process Standardization and presents insightful recommendations for banks implementing the Business Correspondent Model; on how to standardize their processes for sustained success.
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Madu, Marcellinus Emeka. "Success Strategies for Small Business Owners in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2092.
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African immigrant business owners create jobs and often stimulate economic growth in distressed inner-city areas, yet they continue to experience barriers obtaining financial support in the United States when trying to gain entrance into the broader economy. The objective of this multiple case study was to explore strategies African immigrant business owners used to succeed in business beyond 5 years. The conceptual framework of this study included resource-based theory, human capital theory, and disadvantage theory. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 3 African immigrant business owners in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who had succeeded in business beyond 5 years. Thematic analysis from interviews, organizational documents, and Bureau of Labor Statistics data identified 8 emergent themes. Findings indicated that, for these 3 African immigrant business owners, education, managerial-related experience, motivation, and networking were key attributes related to small business success. Additionally, for this group, innovation, steady flow of resources, and adequate access to capital were predictive of successful businesses. This study may contribute to positive social change by providing guidance to African immigrant business owners about effective business strategies; this knowledge may help to improve the quality of life for African immigrants in the United States. Increasing the prosperity of the business community is incumbent upon the development and use of new knowledge.
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Trokic, Amela, and Jeta Sahatqija. "Project Management within Start-Ups : Exploring Success Criteria and Critical Success Factors in Entrepreneurial Project Management." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-115919.
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Zorn, Gwendolyn Philippa. "Redefining success : social justice and the ends of business." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012061.
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Success in business is for the most part defined in financial terms and, because of this, business operations are almost entirely, if not entirely, directed to this end. The principle behind this rationale has been informed by the thought that the best contribution businesses can make to social justice is to focus on the bottom line. By appealing to enlightened self-interest and the high premium people place on freedom, neoliberal economists like Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek argue that maximising profits is necessarily socially responsible. And, moreover, that not to pursue this end is socially irresponsible. Social responsibility is the ultimate justification that thinkers such as Friedman and Hayek appeal to when claiming that the business of business is to maximise profit. Yet this position is internally inconsistent. The position is ultimately justified by what is socially just but this means that in fact social justice, and not profit-making, ought to be the end of business. I shall argue that taking this commitment seriously involves rejecting the idea that the aim of business is to maximise profits. This is not to say that businesses should not make profits, rather it implies that this feature is not what ultimately makes them successful. The central contribution of this project is to resolve the contradictions embedded in the traditional approach to business by arguing that the primary aim of business is the promotion of social justice. To this end success in business needs to be redefined so that it reflects the achievement of its ultimate ends and not simply its instrumental means (profit) to the realisation of these aims. We ought then to revise our fundamental assumptions about the structures and policies that are necessary for business to achieve its real end of social justice.
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Cheung, Yu Ha. "Dispositional antecedents of career success a social network perspective /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5894.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (March 2, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Da, Gama Brigitte. "Talent management and its impact on sustainable business success." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/5486.
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Thesis (MBA (Business Management))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research report consists of an analysis of the impact of talent or human capital in ensuring business success and giving organisations a competitive advantage. It examines the literature, particularly recent literature and evaluates the most current thinking and practices in the area of talent management. Talent management is analysed from four perspectives, namely conventional aspects of talent management including sourcing and succession planning; leadership; and the development of talent and organisational culture. All four aspects need to be examined if we are to develop a holistic understanding of the field of talent management. Organisations that can implement advanced organisational practices in these four areas are reaping the rewards from a business profitability perspective. The report also includes the examination of a ground-breaking survey on the importance of talent for competitive advantage to companies in the late 1990s. This survey would later lead to the well-known concept of the 'war for talent'. The pertinent issue of succession planning is also covered because it is acknowledged that a failure to adequately plan for future talent requirements is the equivalent of leaving an organisation open to an enormous risk. There are clear findings that the most successful succession planning programmes are based on developing internal candidates. The latest research thinking and insights on how to manage the most productive employees or rather high-fliers in a company are also explored. There is a clear understanding that people make a definitive contribution to business success and the most talented individuals, who have the potential to contribute extensively, must not only be understood but should also be appropriately led. The availability of quality leadership is a key challenge facing organisations presently and into the future. The critical importance of leadership in modern organisations cannot be overstated. No talent management strategy is complete without paying special attention to the leadership talent within an organisation. This report therefore deals with new areas from which to source leaders in the context of a global shortage of leadership skills. It also looks at the creation of leadership brands and the benefits to a company of establishing a leadership brand. Particular attention is paid to the issue of succession planning and the leader's responsibility in this arena. The thorny and perpetual dearth and consequences of inadequate representation of women in the leadership ranks are also explored. The report also explores concepts around the development of talent. It is not sufficient for organisations to hire the best talent. Skills need to be kept sharp and relevant for companies to have sustainable success. An under-investment in the development of talent has enormous consequences for the future of an organisation. Toyota, one of the most successful companies in the world, is also analysed to evaluate the techniques that they use to create a culture of continuous learning which leads to a virtuous cycle of continuous improvement. Google is explored as a case study of the success that can be achieved when an entire organisation is designed around the concept of development and learning. The often-misunderstood and under-valued (by business leaders anyway) yet highly relevant topic of managing the organisational culture is also analysed. One critical aspect about building a winning culture is whether businesses have a culture that supports the ongoing changes facing the modern enterprise. Modern businesses need to be able to adapt faster and better to new challenges. A culture that manages change well is therefore a prerequisite to success. The most successful organisations in the world have demonstrated that there is a link between the culture that is followed by their employees and business success. We therefore examine and discuss the key components of a high performance culture. A number of case studies from businesses that have built impressive organisational cultures are also discussed.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie navorsingsverslag bestaan uit 'n ontleding van die impak van talent of menslike kapitaal om sakesukses te verseker en organisasies 'n mededingende voordeel te gee. Dit ondersoek die literatuur, in besonder onlangse literatuur, en evalueer die jongste gedagterigtings en praktyk op die gebied van talentbestuur. Talentbestuur word uit vier perspektiewe ontleed, naamlik konvensionele aspekte van talentbestuur met insluiting van verkryging en opvolgbeplanning; leierskap; die ontwikkeling van talent en organisasiekultuur. Al vier aspekte moet ondersoek word as ons 'n holistiese begrip wil ontwikkel van die veld van talentbestuur. Organisasies wat gevorderde organisasiepraktyke op hierdie vier gebiede kan implementeer, pluk die vrugte uit die oogpunt van winsgewendheid vir hulle besigheid. Die verslag omvat ook die ontleding van 'n vernuwende oorsig oor die belangrikheid van talent vir 'n mededingende voordeel vir maatskappye in die laat 1990's. Hierdie oorsig sou later lei tot die welbekende konsep van die 'oorlog vir talent'. Die pertinente vraagstuk van opvolgbeplanning word ook gedek omdat daar aanvaar word dat 'n gebrek aan voldoende beplanning vir toekomstige talentvereistes dieselfde is as om 'n organisasie bloot te stel aan enorme risiko. Daar is duidelike bevindings dat die suksesvolste opvolgbeplanningsprogramme gebaseer is op die ontwikkeling van interne kandidate. Die nuutste navorsingsmenings en -insigte oor die bestuur van die produktiefste werknemers oftewel hoogvlieers in 'n maatskappy word ook ondersoek. Daar word duidelik begryp dat mense 'n bepalende bydrae maak tot sakesukses en dat die talentvolste individue, wat die potensiaal het om omvattende bydraes te maak, nie net met begrip behandel moet word nie maar ook toepaslike leiding moet ontvang. Die beskikbaarheid van goeie gehalte leierskap is 'n sleuteluitdaging waarvoor organisasies tans en in die toekoms te staan gaan kom. Die kritieke belangrikheid van leierskap in moderne organisasies kan nie oorbeklemtoon word nie. Geen talentbestuurstrategie is volledig sonder dat spesiale aandag gegee word aan die leierskapstalent binne 'n organisasie nie. Hierdie verslag behandel dus nuwe areas vir die verkryging van leiers in die konteks van 'n wereldwye tekort aan leierskapsvaardighede. Dit kyk ook na die skepping van leierskapshandelsmerke en die voordele wat die daarstelling van 'n leierskapshandelsmerk vir 'n maatskappy inhou. Daar word veral aandag gegee aan die kwessie van opvolgbeplanning en die leier se verantwoordelikheid in hierdie arena. Die moeilike en voortdurende tekort aan vroue in leierskapsgeledere en die gevolge van hierdie ontoereikende verteenwoordiging word ook ondersoek. Die verslag ondersoek ook begrippe rondom die ontwikkeling van talent. Dit is nie voldoende vir organisasies om die beste talent aan te stel nie. Vaardighede moet opgeskerp word en toepaslik bly vir maatskappye om volhoubare sukses te behaal. 'n Onderbelegging in die ontwikkeling van talent het enorme gevolge vir die toekoms van 'n organisasie. Toyota, een van die suksesvolste maatskappye ter wereld, word ook ontleed om die tegnieke te evalueer wat hulle gebruik om 'n kultuur van volgehoue leer te skep, wat lei tot 'n voortreflike siklus van deurlopende verbetering. Google word ondersoek as 'n gevalstudie van die sukses wat behaal kan word wanneer 'n totale organisasie ontwerp word rondom die konsep van ontwikkeling en leer. Die hoogs relevante onderwerp van die bestuur van organisasiekultuur word ook ontleed. Dit word dikwels misverstaan en onderwaardeer - deur sakeleiers in elk geval. Een kritieke aspek van die opbou van 'n wenkultuur is of besighede 'n kultuur het wat ondersteuning bied aan die voortgesette veranderinge waarvoor die moderne onderneming te staan kom. Moderne besighede moet vinniger en beter by nuwe uitdagings kan aanpas. 'n Kultuur wat verandering goed bestuur, is dus 'n voorwaarde vir sukses. Die suksesvolste organisasies in die wereld het aangetoon dat daar 'n skakel is tussen die kultuur wat deur hulle werknemers gevolg word en sakesukses. Ons ondersoek en bespreek dus die sleutelkomponente van 'n hoeprestasiekultuur. 'n Aantal gevalstudies van besighede wat indrukwekkende organisasiekulture opgebou het, word ook bespreek.
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Chasalow, Lewis. "A MODEL OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMPETENCIES FOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SUCCESS." VCU Scholars Compass, 2009. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1723.
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Business intelligence (BI) systems comprise one of the largest and fastest growing areas of IT expenditure in companies today. Companies’ experiences with deriving benefits from these systems are still mixed. One of the differences between BI and other types of information systems is that how BI systems are used, not just whether they are used, can have a major impact on the benefits derived. Therefore the characteristics of BI users and the organizations within which they work can have a disproportionate impact on the benefits derived from investments in BI. Organizational competence is one way to evaluate the characteristics of individuals and organizations relative to their ability to achieve organizational goals. This dissertation examines the characteristics of BI users and their organizations within the framework of organizational competences. Models representing those competences at both the individual and organizational level are presented. A combined competency model and resulting emerging competences are proposed that, if adopted, can improve the likelihood of organizations realizing benefits from their BI investments.
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Gilliard, Tawanda. "Entrepreneurial Opportunities to Develop Strategies for Small Business Success." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5081.
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Entrepreneurs of small businesses fail because of the lack of strategies to improve business performance. Using the model of strategic entrepreneurship, the purpose of this multiple case study was to explore strategies entrepreneurs used to exploit entrepreneurial opportunities to improve their business performance. Three entrepreneurs from different fitness businesses in South Carolina shared strategies used to exploit entrepreneurial opportunities to business performance. Data were collected from semistructured, face-to-face interviews and a review of company documents such as business performance plans, consolidated financial statements, and a digital equipment user log. Member checking and methodological triangulation increased the validity of the data. The data analysis process involved compiling and disassembling the data into codes, reassembling the data, interpreting the meaning, and writing and reporting the themes. The information collected from 3 participant responses was insufficient to answer the central research question. Participants provided information but did not give rich feedback to confirm or disprove their use of strategies to improve business performance. The themes that emerged from the data analysis were planning to improve business performance and effective leadership. Both themes were entrepreneurial opportunities identified as strategies by entrepreneurs used to improve business performance. The themes identified as strategies might help other entrepreneurs improve business performance for small business success. Implications for positive social change include providing new insights for best business practices, better preparation to increase entrepreneurial survival, and good relationships leading to healthier community lifestyles.
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Gaynor, Bruce David. "Success Strategies of Latin American Immigrant Small Business Entrepreneurs." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4515.
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Small business restaurants represent a significant segment of the U.S. economy; however, many small business restaurants fail before 5 years of operation. The purpose of this exploratory multiple case study was to explore the strategies entrepreneurs used to sustain operations beyond 5 years. The population for this study was 3 Latin American immigrant small business restaurant owners in the central part of the U.S. state of Georgia, who had sustained operations for more than 5 years. The conceptual framework consisted of entrepreneurship and knowledge management theories. The data derived from semistructured interviews and organizational documents presented by the participants. Data analysis involved using a modified van Kaam method and qualitative analysis software to identify and analyze emergent themes. The 3 themes were cultivation of ego-networks, human capital development, and engaged entrepreneurial activities. The findings from this study suggest that small business owners enhance their external social network, advance the human capital of employees and the entrepreneur, and apply entrepreneurial orientation practices. Using study findings, small business restaurant owners may be better able to have sustainable businesses and, thus, contribute to their local communities' economic and social well-being. Implications for positive social change include the potential to prevent the economic and socially damaging effects of business failures and unemployment as well as the potential to cultivate a skilled U.S. Latin American workforce, through the advancement of human capital.
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Maritz, Anna-marie. "Development of a critical success factor assessment for small organisations." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/49694.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2001ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Small businesses are the traditional source of local and national economic growth. Small businesses in South Africa absorb almost half the people formally employed in the private sector and contribute nearly thirty seven percent to the country's gross domestic product. Unfortunately small businesses also have the reputation of a high failure rate some literature quote figures as high as sixty six percent of all small businesses within the first six years of their existence. An Australian survey indicated that nearly sixty five percent of all business failures were caused by controllable factors, which implicates that the use of consultants, or simply better management of the small business, could have prevented the failure. This study explains why small business owners are so reluctant to make use of outside consultants and looks into the most common causes of small organisation failure. This research project is designed as an incremental development study, where an existing model is adjusted to focus on a smaller nische market. A consulting model, developed to use in large organisations, was evaluated by identifying the problem areas that most often cause small organisations to fail and then comparing them to the areas addressed in the existing model. The conclusion reached was that although this model will definitely help small business owners to improve their businesses, it doesn't address the mest common causes of small business failure and adjustments is needed to customise this product for the small organisation. Based on the available data on the most common causes of small organisational failure, a new model is developed, which addresses the specific causes of small organisation failure. The new model gives examples of what would be in place in an organisation where the relevant critical success factor is successfully implemented as well as examples of what the situation will be if the relvant factor is absent. The small business owners evaluate themselves on a scale of one to ten. The model has a dual purpose, firstly to create an awareness with the owner of the full spectrum of factors that need to receive attention in a small organisation, and secondly to give a benchmark against which progress on each of the critical success factors can be measured.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Klein besighede vorm die ruggraat van die Suid Afrikaanse ekonomie, met byna sewe-en-dertig persent van die Bruto Nasionale Produk (BNP), wat aan klein besighede toegeskryf kan word en as werkverskaffer aan bykans die helfte van alle werknemers wat formeel in diens is van die private sektor. Ongelukkig het klein besighede ook die reputasie van 'n groot mislukkingskoers met mislukkings so hoog as ses-en-sestig persent van alle klein besighede in die eerste ses jaar van die ondernemings se bestaan. 'n Australiese studie het getoon dat ongeveer vyf-en-sestig persent van die oorsake van klein besigheid mislukkings aan beheerbare faktore toegeskryf kan word. Met ander woorde hulp van konsultante, of bloot beter bestuur van die klein besigheid, kon die mislukking verhoed het. Hierdie werkstuk kyk na redes hoekom konsultante so min deur klein besighede gebruik word en na die mees algemene oorsake van klein besigheid mislukkings. Die werkstuk neem die vorm aan van 'n inkrementele ontwikkeling studie waar 'n reeds bestaande evaluasie model, aangepas word om te fokus op 'n kleiner nismark. 'n Konsultasie model, wat ontwikkel is vir gebruik in die diagnostiese fase van die konsultasieproses vir groot besighede, is ondersoek en daar is gekyk watter van die mees algemene faktore vir klein besigheid mislukking in hierdie model aangespreek is. Die gevolgtrekking was dat alhoewel die model definitief klein besigheids eienaars sal help om hul organisasies te verbeter, dit meeste van die oorsake vir mislukking in klein besighede nie direk aanspreek nie, en dat aanpassings van die model nodig is. Gebasseer op reeds bestaande navorsing oor die oorsake van klein besigheid mislukkings, is 'n nuwe model ontwikkel, wat spesifiek gerig is daarop om die mees algemene oorsake van mislukking aan te spreek. Die hersiene model gee voorbeelde van wat in plek sal wees in 'n organisasie waar die kritieke suksesfaktor suksesvol geimplementeer is asook voorbeelde van hoe die situasie daar sal uitsien indien die relevante faktor afwesig is. Klein besigheidseienaars evalueer hulself op 'n skaal van een tot tien. Die doel van die model is tweeledig, eerstens om die eienaar attent te maak op die volle omvang van faktore waaraan aandag gegee moet word, en tweedens om 'n riglyn te bied waarteen vordering op elkeen van die kritieke sukses faktore gemeet kan word.