IOSR-JBM   Volume-18 ~ Issue-8 ~ August-2016

Abstract: Entrepreneurs believe that they operate in a highly competitive environment. Identifying and focusing on the distinctive competencies of an entrepreneur becomes imperative to achieve dramatic marked advantage over competitors. The purpose of this paper therefore is to x-ray factors most inherent in an individual commitment to becoming an entrepreneur, the choice of goods and services to offer (industry choice and market), entrepreneurial competencies (skills) which involves ability to identify a suitable virgin operational position in existing markets,....

Keywords: Distinctive entrepreneurial competencies, entrepreneurial challenges, entrepreneur's competitive intelligence, industry analysis.

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Abstract: In today's business environment, to cope up with surroundings, every business has to be agile. Agility must be in correct direction with complete visibility and must have a high speed response to the changes in Market. For being competitive and profitable, businesses can incorporate different strategies. For such strategy creation, we must focus on customer needs and satisfaction. Incorporating this study at the time of planning of such service businesses can definitely improve its efficiency. It is the era of co-creation. This paper presents the Kano model approach to establish and improve the organized retail chain of proprietary items for medium and heavy commercial vehicles..............

Keywords: Marketing Strategy, Customer Satisfaction, Market Segmentation, positioning

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Abstract: According to social scientists, namely; public administration scientists, political scientists, economists, sociologists, students and readers, planning is now viewed and accepted as an indispensible activity in the public sector, as opposed to the ancient point of view that to foretell the future did not reside within the province of humankind's capabilities. As a matter of fact, planning with reference to contemporary thinking is accorded a necessary element in governmental activities, as is evident from the uses of various terms and concepts such as policy planning, development planning, economic planning, social planning, rural planning, urban planning, and governmental planning to mention but a few; and the latter concept, that is, governmental planning, is the subject this article.

Keywords: planning, policy planning, economic planning, development planning, indispensable activity, and governmental planning, foretell the future.

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