Opportunity Seeking Screening and Seizing
Opportunity Seeking Screening and Seizing
Seeking Screening
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Chua, Azel
SeizingSay, Chester
Tan ,Kurt
Zhuang, John
Salonga, Alyssa
What is Opportunity Seeking?
The ongoing process of considering, evaluating,
and pursuing market-based activities that are
believed to be advantageous for the firm. Prior
experience informs the process, but it may also
limit it: opportunity seeking calls for continuous
reconsideration and adaptive learning.
Sources of
Opportunity
Internal Sources
Innovation Creativity
● Reach Required
● Range ● Risk
● Returns ● Resonance
● Revenue
Responsiveness
● customer’s needs and wants
Reach
● expansion through branches, distributorships, or franchise
outlets
Range
● tapping many market segments and creating a wide array of
product/service
Revolutionary Impact
● "game - changer", "the next big thing"
Returns
● low costs of production and operations sold at higher prices
Risks
● Risks: high technological, market, financial, and people risks
Relevance
● Opportunity must be aligned with what you have as your personal vision,
mission, and objectives for the enterprise you want to set up
Resonance
● Must match the values and desired virtues that you have or wish to
impart
Reinforcement of Entrepreneurial
Interests
● The opportunity resonates with the entrepreneurs interests, skills
Revenues
● Sales opportunity; big enough market to nurture growth
What is Opportunity Seizing?
● Entrepreneur grabs or seize opportunities to continuously make sure the
business sustains for a long time in the industry.
Skills needed for
Opportunity
Seizing
Commercial Awareness- Prioritisation and Time
Management-
Commercial awareness is a term
that refers to a candidate's as a process, it means evaluating
general knowledge of business, a group of items and ranking
their business experiences (or them in their order of
work experience) and, importance or urgency.
specifically, their understanding
of the industry which they are
applying to join.
Problem Solving Skills Communication, Negotiation
and Persuasion Skills
● The process of working
through details of a ● Used to settle differences. It
problem to reach a is a process by which
solution. Problem solving compromise or agreement
may include mathematical is reached while avoiding
or systematic operations argument and dispute.
and can be a gauge of an
individual's critical thinking
skills.
Where Opportunities are Hiding
Challenges may be difficult but these Random Encounters with other people can
challenges can become opportunities by also open up new opportunities because
changing your perspective about it. there are reasons why we encounter them
Meetings with other people can bring At Work, there are a lot of opportunities
opportunity also found there that can help one become a
better individual, new opportunities to learn
and grow, etc.