For the participants of our recent Manage your Business Advantage seminar, please note that the presentation materials are now available for download. Just click on the Download button above!

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 […]

Sometimes the choice of what business to put up depends on what resources you have in the first place.
For many entrepreneurs, this translates to location. After all, getting a perfect location for your ultimate business idea is next to impossible. So why not go the other way and first look for an available location… and […]

If you’re running an organization, sooner or later you’ll be asking yourself just what exactly is your business good at?
Are you good at marketing? Sales? Manufacturing? Purchasing? Financial administration?
If your business is good in some functions but downright pitiful in others, then it’s time to consider outsourcing.
Outsourcing is the natural tail end of the SWOT […]