Friday, 7 October 2011

Enterprise - Lecture 2

Ideas & Opportunities

Opportunities:-

  • Occur anywhere and at anytime
  • To anybody
  • Randomly
  • Seldom materialise

An idea is not necessarily an opportunity and ideas alone are not worth much

What is an opportunity?

Environmental factors merge - career direction, technology etc
The right conditions - time, place etc

PEST analysis

PEST analysis stands for Political, Economic, Social and Technological analaysis and describes a framework of macro-environmental factors used in strategic management. This abbreviation is sometimes referred to as SLEPT or PESTLE (Legal and Legal & Environmental respectively)

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