The Entrepreneurial Arch

"The Entrepreneurial Arch is the result of my quest to pull all these pieces into a unified description of entrepreneurship. That description has two parts: Business Discovery and Business Execution. Each of those parts has three components. Together thesix components describe fundamental skills that every organization wishes it could enhance: Identify emerging opportunities (and threats) Formulate innovative business solutions around those opportunities Assess the feasibility of those proposed businesses Develop an actionable implementation plan from disparate and incomplete information Identify, align and/or acquire the necessary resources needed to power the plan forward Drive accelerated growth"--

Autorentext

Timothy L. Faley is Kiril Sokoloff Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship and Special Assistant to the President for Entrepreneurial Initiatives at the University of the Virgin Islands. Dr Faley was an architect and builder of the entrepreneurship program at the University of Michigan, which he helped transform from an unranked program to the number one graduate entrepreneurship program in the nation (Princeton Review/Entrepreneur Magazine, 2013).

Klappentext

Ideal for students and practitioners, this is a concise introduction to entrepreneurship based on a tried-and-tested model, the entrepreneurial arch.

Zusammenfassung
A concise introduction to entrepreneurship based on a tried-and-tested model developed at the University of Michigan: the entrepreneurial arch. Using a range of real-world examples, this book teaches readers how to discover and create a new firm, or grow an existing one, starting from a firm or team's capabilities.

Inhalt

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction to the entrepreneurial arch; 2. Opportunity identification; 3. Business design; 4. Business assessment; 5. Operationalize the business; 6. Resourcing the business; 7. Strategies for managing growth; 8. Summary; Appendices; References; Index.