Joining an early-stage startup provides better opportunities for learning skills and honing leadership to launch an own venture than joining an MBA programme, believe some of the entrepreneurs. Ahead of World Entrepreneurship Day on August 21, many founders with whom PTI spoke noted that while an MBA programme provides valuable […]
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Disney (DIS) has hit back at activist investor Nelson Peltz amid its ongoing proxy battle with the hedge fund billionaire. “Nelson Peltz does not understand Disney’s businesses and lacks the skills and experience to assist the board in delivering shareholder value in a rapidly shifting media ecosystem,” Disney said in […]
In this era of advanced technology, the growth of businesses lies in accurately predicting and forecasting business patterns. Your ability to study data and rising trends to tell what’s attainable in a company is a huge part of business intelligence. A business intelligence (BI) analyst works with companies to examine […]
Definition: Entrepreneurship refers to the process of creating a new enterprise and bearing any of its risks, with the view of making the profit. It is an act of seeking investment and production opportunity, developing and managing a business venture, so as to undertake production function, arranging inputs like land, […]
Reading time: 9 minutes Everything concerning your business’s past and current status is recorded as bits of data. Marketing numbers, human resources, company budgeting, sales volumes — you name it. The number of business domains the data comes from can be large. But, as a business, you might be interested […]
My Personal Finance Skills delivers free financial education workshops to schools across the country to help students understand more about money and leave school ‘life-ready’. These workshops are targeted at students across KS4-5 (14-18 years old) are ideal for enrichment days, PSHE/Citizenship lessons or career insight days and can help […]
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Does data excite, inspire, or even amaze you? Does the idea of discovering patterns in large volumes of information make you want to roll up your sleeves and get to work? Do you find computer science and its applications within the business world more than interesting? If you answered yes […]
Business Intelligence (BI) is a top priority across the world: Gartner estimates that 90% of organizations have some form of BI capability… with global BI spend for 2016 expected to reach 16.9 billion US dollars. Simultaneously, experts predict future demand for BI professionals to increase even higher than present, resulting […]
We probably all know people, either at work or in our personal lives, who are really good listeners. No matter what kind of situation we’re in, they always seem to know just what to say – and how to say it – so that we’re not offended or upset. They’re […]
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© iStockphotoboboling What skills do you need as an entrepreneur? What makes someone a successful entrepreneur? It certainly helps to have strong technology skills or expertise in a key area, but these are not defining characteristics of entrepreneurship. Instead, the key qualities are traits such as creativity, the ability to […]
Having a great product, an amazing team and an IQ over 120 are not sufficient for success. An entrepreneur must also possess effective social skills [1]. They must rely on these skills to form relationships with customers, suppliers, employees and venture capitalists. They have to convince people to love their product, idea […]
Explore Careers Accounting Consulting Entrepreneurship Overview Skills & Talents Job Options Salaries Facts & Trends Human Resources Finance Marketing Non-Profit Entrepreneurship:Skills and Talents Required Entrepreneurs are a diverse set of people — with a range of personalities and a range of temperaments. In fact, they are difficult to pigeonhole. Entrepreneurs tend to need a well rounded portfolio of skills since they frequently […]
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Do you have the top business intelligence skills employers are looking for? Business intelligence (BI) involves analyzing data sets and software programs in order to help a company make better business decisions. Executives and managers need to be familiar with business intelligence in order to make effective decisions for their […]
Maybe you’re ready for a career change. Maybe you’re still unsure what career to pursue in the first place. Maybe all you really know is that you want to run your own business, but are fresh out of small business ideas. While looking at the booming industries year by year […]
You’ve decided that you want to get out of the corporate rat-race and be your own boss. As you begin planning how to start your own business from home, you begin listing down what you want to do and what you can do. You tell yourself that you love to […]