To all the participants of last Thursday’s MBA: Manage Your Business Advantage seminar at the Dusit Hotel Nikko, a big hearty SME thank you on behalf of SME Insight, Intel Microelectronics Philippines and Microsoft Philippines!
We hope you had a great time, and that you’ve learned a thing or two. We enjoyed the day as well, […]

Tomorrow marks the first major SME Insight event for 2007. Manage Your Business Advantage is a seminar/workshop series that’s sponsored by Intel Microelectronics and co-sponsored by Microsoft Philippines.
Participants, consisting of owners and top managers from small and medium enterprises, shall be converging on Dusit Hotel Nikko in Makati City for a whole day seminar that […]

Lorenz Yatco is an entrepreneurial coach. He has lived the life of an entrepreneur, and lived others’ lives as well vicariously, over the past twenty or so years.
Now he’s made a board game out of it. You can read all about it in the upcoming May-June issue of SME Insight.
The board game is called The […]

Also in our upcoming May issue of SME Insight, Dr. Herminia Fajardo, our columnist who has had several decades of experience in the SME sector, talks about the critical transition from being a micro enterprise to being a larger, more professional organization.
Here’s the thing: many entrepreneurs never learn to grow up. Having gotten used to […]

In our upcoming May issue of SME Insight, columnist Wilson Ng talks about gut feel versus scientific management. Definitely an interesting topic! Wilson notes that many business people rely on their gut feel in making decisions.
But where does gut feel come from?
Gut feel, hunches, intuition… this actually comes from prior knowledge that people do […]

What’s the difference between a manager and an entrepreneur? Or is there a difference at all in the first place?
Let’s put it this way. Imagine that you have extra capital, and you decide to invest in a food franchise business. Are you now an entrepreneur?
The bad news is… not really. You are an investor because […]

Based on observations and case studies of CEOs, there seem to be two kinds of entrepreneurs, if we can classify them according to how they utilize resources.
On one hand are the visionaries. These folks have grand, ambitious goals. They typically have a very strong idea of what they want to accomplish. And they generally find […]