Entrepreneurship for FT13 © Henley Business School 2008 www.henley.reading.ac.uk NERC Doctoral Training Workshop Entrepreneurship Overview Keith Heron
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Entrepreneurship for FT13 © Henley Business School 2008www.henley.reading.ac.uk
NERC Doctoral Training WorkshopEntrepreneurship OverviewKeith Heron
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Being Entrepreneurial• I am joining our team of professional business
coaches to:
• support your imagination and thinking
• with the aim of helping YOU to develop…
• GREAT IDEAS• …That can be turned into
• GREAT BUSINESS VENTURES
• By you and your team - being entrepreneurs!
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Hutchison Whampoa is controlled by Asia's richest man Li Ka-shing
Business Entrepreneurs
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Political Entrepreneurs
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Creative Entrepreneurs
Jaakko Iisalo
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/233465 Rovio Entertainment
https://www.angrybirds.com/
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Social Entrepreneurs
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Common factor• They have all created something new…
• Which has been in response to something they have seen in the …
• World around them…
• Which has agitated them into taking action…
• Which has created value for ‘consumers’
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What is being entrepreneurial?
• Schumpeter suggested that an entrepreneur was someone who:
• Noticed significant events;
• Brought into existence ‘innovative combinations’,
• Delivered an impact of ‘creative destruction’ on passive or inefficient existing markets.
• An entrepreneur is a person
• “who breaks away from the path of routine”
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A definition of Business Entrepreneurship
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What is Entrepreneurship?
• entrepreneurship is defined as the
• Discovery
• Evaluation
• Exploitation
• of future goods and services
• (Shane & Venkataraman, 2000)
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The source of future business
• An Opportunity is:• Information or a situation that has come
into effect, outside the control or influence of an entrepreneur….that the entrepreneur thinks (perceives) is the source for a new business venture
• The immediate response to this ‘catalyst’ is an IDEA…which then needs to be elaborated
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Evaluation of the Opportunity
Evaluation has 2 components
•Evaluation of the customer and the customer need
•Evaluation of the innovation/value proposition that needs to be created to match to the specific customer need- TOMORROW
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Exploitation - Adoption (by consumers)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DiffusionOfInnovation.pngoriginally published in 1957 by Joe M. Bohlen, George M. Beal and Everett M. Rogers
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Risk-taking is a pre-requisite
• Cantillon (1755) sees the entrepreneur as;
• a risk taker who
• buys at a CERTAIN price
• but sells [in the future] at an UNCERTAIN price
• The entrepreneur specialises in bearing uncertainty in the course of taking action
• (Johnson, 2007:21)
• Cantillon, Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Général (Essay on the Nature of Trade in General).
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Today:Spotting Opportunities for your Ideas
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Your Objective• In this business simulation your objective is to
• Spot something from the world around you which…
• Agitates you into taking action…
• To create an innovation for a perceived market need…
• That can be tested beyond this workshop
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Your perception: What do you see?
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We are all UNIQUE
“No Two Persons Read the Same
Book”Edmund Wilson
Inscription in Victoria State Library- Australia
Two Girls Reading (1934). Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1975). Oil on canvas. University of Michigan
Museum of Art
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Discovery of Opportunities…aah-haa!
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The PESTEL Cloud
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P E S T E L
Entrepreneurs Consumers
Trying to understand the information in the PESTEL Cloud
Political
EconomicSocietal
Technological Environment- natural
Legal
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The PESTEL Cloud
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P E S T E L
Trusted Intermediaries- Goldman Sachs, Trade Bodies, Analysts, UKTI, Experts e.g., NERC Speakers
Entrepreneurs Consumers
Political
EconomicSocietal
Technological Environment- natural
Legal
Trying to understand the information in the PESTEL Cloud
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Information Asymmetry Opportunities
• Kirzner (1973)
• Entrepreneurs have…“the ability to notice …opportunities that have hitherto been overlooked”
• They are driven by entrepreneurial alertness
• This is a distinctive set of perceptual and cognitive processing skills that direct the opportunity identification process
• Kirzner, I., 1973, Competition and Entrepreneurship, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Kirzner, I., 1979, Perception, Opportunity, and Profit, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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Existing Firms:The Vision- opportunities in all directions
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Market DevelopmentEnter New Markets
- with Existing Products
DiversificationNew Products
and New Markets
Product DevelopmentDevelop New Products- for Existing Markets
Market Penetration Increase ExistingProduct-Market
Strategy
Markets
Products
Existing
Existing
New
New
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Existing Firms: Marketing Myopia
• Levitt, T, 1960, Marketing Myopia, Harvard Business Review.
• ‘Short-sighted managements fail to recognise there is no such thing as a growth industry’
• Growth stops NOT because a market is saturated but because of the failure of management
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Existing Firms:The Reality- 1-2% allocated to new ventures
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Market DevelopmentDiversification
Product Development
Market Penetration (98-99% allocation) Increase ExistingProduct-Market
Strategy
Markets
Products
Existing
Existing
New
New
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Be Alert• When you listen to and observe the following
presentations from ‘Trusted Intermediaries’ of the PESTEL cloud…
• Your brain will be stimulated by certain things
• Create a mind map of the OBSERVATIONS
• That have captured your attention…
• This is the start of your IDEATION
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Tomorrow:Evaluating the Opportunity:Building your Innovation Propositions
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Beyond your first idea• If your idea was so easy to generate…
• We need to go beyond the first idea to
• ‘innovate the idea’
• Which is done through a series of
• Experiments or tests
• Karl Popper would call it ‘Conjecture testing’
• Eric Ries calls it ‘Lean Start-Up’
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• In order to ‘spot’ an opportunity an entrepreneur will already have a pre-informed idea of the solution to the problem
• However, other entrepreneurs may have had similar ideas for the same problem
• The key is to devise an INNOVATIVE solution
• This requires IMAGINATION and CREATIVITY
• This requires understanding our capabilities
• The Future is Risky
Creating the Future- Innovating
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Lean Start-Up process• See Eric Ries• Model for starting up by • Aiming to understand your ‘identified’ customer
archetype• Building ‘something’ to have a conversation with this
customer• Measuring ‘reaction’• Reflecting and then adapting or changing• It is intended to avoid the entrepreneur fixating on
their preferred ‘design’ before really finding out what their customer actually needs
• See the book of readings provided pre workshop
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Capturing the FIT- the Value Proposition Canvas
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Creating a customer persona
• How does this customer…
• THINK
• SEE
• FEEL
• DO• What do they like? What influences them? What catches their attention?
• What are their values? What are their emotions?
• When you observe them, or imaging them, what are they doing?
• How can we tell?
• Get OUT of the Office and look!
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Activity: A process for recording your thoughts about customers
• customers
Why did these customers attract your attention?
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Activity: What did your creativity suggest?
• Customer personae For each customer
personaeWhat is the specific customer need that you have identified?
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Activity: Enhance your ‘preferred’ proposition
• Diverge to generate MORE detailed needs
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Activity: Converge to your Best Solution
• Look for the best elements…
• Combine and Converge to THE SINGLE main need
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Activity: Repeat the process to
devise the VP for that need
• Look for the best elements…
• Combine and Converge to THE SINGLE main VP
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Question
Which Number is Least like the Others?
1. Thirty-One
2. Thirteen
3. One-Third
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Answer:
1. Thirty-One
2. Thirteen
3. One-Third
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Mind Openers- In Groups•You are a taxi driver.
•Your cab is yellow and black and has been in use for 5 years.
•One of the outside mirrors is broken, and the engine needs a tune-up.
•The gas tank holds 23 gallons, but is only 2/3 full.
•An air freshener hangs from the rear-view mirror.
•How old is the driver?
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Critical Evaluation Method
• Popper proposed the ‘critical method’ of trial and error.
• “Bold hypotheses should be proposed and then exposed to the severest of criticism in order to detect where there is error.”
• The solution, initially ‘tentative’ is a theory which is critically tested and discussed
• The results (which will change over time) are what he termed the ‘science of the day’ (p.97)
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Popper, K. 1992. ‘Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography’, Routledge, London.
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From Opportunity to Market Ready
Schaper, M and Volery, T, 2004. Entrepreneurship and Small Business
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Shane, S. 2003. A General Theory of Entrepreneurship: The Individual-Opportunity Nexus. Elgar, Cheltenham, UK
The world of...Environment
PoliticsSociety
EconomicsTechnology
Legal
Things that occur- some are ‘spotted’
WHY?PersonalityEducation
ExperiencesConnections
Ideas for innovations
Market Exploitation
Evaluate the Innovation Idea
Modify or reject it Use it
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Creativity and its relevance
• At its heart, creativity is simply the production of novel, appropriate ideas in any realm of human activity, from science, to the arts, to education, to business, to everyday life.
• The ideas must be novel—different from what's been done before—but they can't be simply bizarre; they must be appropriate to the problem or opportunity presented.
• Creativity is the first step in innovation, which is the successful implementation of those novel, appropriate ideas.
• Amabile, T.M., 1997, Motivating Creativity in Organizations: On doing what you love and loving what you do, California Management Review, Vol 40, No, 1, Fall.
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Thinking tools• Business Environment Timeline Mapping
• Customer Persona
• Value Proposition Canvas
• Lean Start-Up
• Business Model Canvas
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Mr Keith Heron
Keith combines his experience of business (Kimberly-Clark) and business start-up (commercial interiors from 1990-2002), with his MBA thinking to bridge the gap between academic thinking and practical application.
He has designed and delivered theory-based, practical entrepreneurship programmes for different audiences from:Small businesses for Queensland Government:16-19 yr group at the inaugural National Enterprise Academy for Peter Jones:University programmes in Queensland and at Reading (Henley Business School).
Keith continually develops and tests his thinking through his own consultancies, and his supervision of MSc Entrepreneurship students consulting to business start-ups in Reading and London, and is developing an online resource for early stage business owners: EU Trademark- YourManagementMatters®