Business Research and Consultants.
Idea…Concept…Planning & Research…Implementation…Monitoring…
Business Research.
Business Research is a multidisciplinary systematic investigation on a study to obtain data that may provide facts to answer a real-time business question. The researcher will need to understand issues that are not narrowly focused, instead, may need to understand factors of the organization using a holistic approach or whole organization approach. This could mean:
· interconnecting entities,
· analyzing short and long-term strategies (bigger pictures),
· creative thinking by identifying inside and outside the box concepts; and
· strategies in comparison with competitors and the industry.
Business Research Methods.
Dr. S. Greener, noted in is his book “Business Research Methods” the following:
“…in business the issue are not so narrowly focused. We will need to understand things about people as managers, staff, customers and owners, about business entities such as companies and partnerships and co-operatives, about economies and how they affect business operations, about products and services and how they vary over time, how they can produced efficiently, about money and what regulates its availability, how it produces profit, and Governments and how their policy affects business operations, customers’ income and needs etc etc.
We can see that business is an umbrella term for many different things, and involves a number of different academic disciplines, such as mathematics, sociology, physics, economics, politics, history and language. So when we research into business or management, we will be drawing on a number of different disciplines and domains. Business research is multi-disciplinary.” (S. Greener, 2008, p. 11)
Business Consultants.
Small Business consultants provide specialized support or advice to clients or customers to improve the business. As business consultants, we provide our customer's solutions to their business needs. This could vary from:
· the inception of a small business's ideas,
· the development and implementation of the business,
· monitoring of progress,
· re-structuration or re-shaping strategies for achieving the expected goals.
As business consultants, we provide our customer's solutions to their business needs, focusing in two areas:
· financial,
· operation of the business