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تخيل أن يصلك مغلف ورقي يحتوي على الرسالة الآتية "لديك مبلغ 5 دولارات سوف تستخدمه كتمويل بذري (رأس مال أولي) كم يمكنك أن تربح من وراء هذا المبلغ خلال ساعتين؟!" قبل أن تبدأ التفكير بما يمكن فعله دعنا نلقي نظرة على ما فعله طلاب جامعة ستانفورد الأمريكية، الذين خاضوا بالفعل هذه التجربة! لنستخلص بعد ذلك الدروس المستفادة من تجربتهم، وتحدد العناصر المؤثرة في عملية الابتكار والابداع في ريادة الأعمال.

عن تجربة جامعة ستانفورد

هذه التجربة هي مهمة اعطتها المحاضرة والمدربة الامريكية في ريادة الأعمال، تينا سيليغ لطلابها في أحد فصول جامعة ستانفورد، كجزء من برنامج " Stanford Technology Ventures " حيث تلقى كل فريق من الفرق الـ14 مظروفاً بخمسة دولارات من "التمويل الأولي" وقيل لهم إن بإمكانهم قضاء الكثير من الوقت إن أرادوا في عملية التخطيط، لكن بمجرد فتح المغلف، سيكون امامهم ساعتين فقط لتوليد أكبر قدر ممكن من الأموال.

ماذا ستفعل إذا تم إعطاؤك هذا التحدي؟

تصف الأستاذة تينا سيليغ بعضاً من الأجوبة التي غالباً ما تسمعها عندما تطرح هذا السؤال، الإجابات التي يمكن قسمها ما بين نوعين من طرق التفكير، النوع الأول يذهب إلى ما يمكن وصفه بالمقامرة "شترِ ورقة يا نصيب" اما النوع الثاني فهو أكثر محافظة وتقليديةً فيكون خيارهم استخدام الخمسة دولارات لشراء المواد الكافية لبيع عصير الليمون مثلاً، أو لشراء مواد لغسل السيارات، تقول سيليغ "هذا خيار جيد للراغبين في كسب بضعة دولارات إضافية من إنفاق الأموال (الـ5 دولارات) في غضون ساعتين".

الابتكار في ريادة الأعمال

بخلاف الإجابات الشائعة لمثل هكذا تحدي، فإن عدداً من الفرق المشاركة في هذه التجربة كشفت عن وجود عدد كبير من الاحتمالات، غير التقليدية، لما يمكن فعله خلال ساعتين و5 دولارات، أو حتى بدونهما! إليك ما فعلته الفرق الثلاث التي حققت أفضل النتائج في نهاية الاختبار، علماً الفرق الثلاثة تلك حققت أكثر من 600 دولار ولم تستخدم الدولارات الخمسة على الإطلاق!

الفريق الأول: بيع حجوزات المطاعم

حدد هذا الفريق مشكلة من المشكلات الشائعة التي تواجه الكثير من طلاب المدن الجامعية، وهي الطوابير الطويلة امام المطاعم الشعبية في يوم السبت، قرر الفريق حل هذه المشكلة من خلال الحجز في العديد من المطاعم، ومن ثم بيع هذه الحجوزات للأشخاص غير الراغبين في الانتظار في الطابور الطويل، باع الفريق كل حجز بما يصل إلى 20 دولاراً.

لا تتمثل أهمية ما فعله الفريق الذي باع حجوزات المطاعم في الفكرة المبتكرة التي استغلوا خلالها الوقت المتاح فقط، بل من المرونة في التخطيط واستغلال الموارد البشرية، فبعد أن لاحظ الفريق بأن أن الطالبات أفضل في بيع الحجوزات من الطلاب، الذي قد يعزا إلى شعور الطلاب/ات بالارتياح أكثر لفكرة الاقتراب من طالبات لا يعرفوهن لشراء حجز بالمطعم منهن، وبناءً على هذه الملاحظة قاموا بتعديل خطتهم بحيث تولى الطلاب مهمة الحجز في المطاعم، بينما باعت الطالبات تلك الحجوزات في الطابور.

كذلك لاحظوا بأن العملاء كانوا يشعرون بارتياح أكبر عند الدفع مقابل الحجوزات، في المطاعم التي تستخدم أجهزة النداء لتنبيه العملاء عندما تكون طاولتهم جاهزة.

الفريق الثاني: ملئ إطارات الدراجات الهوائية

لاحظ الفريق الثاني أن أكثر وسائل المواصلات استخداماً في الحرم الجامعي لم تكن السيارات بل الدّراجات الهوائية، ولأن سائقي الدّراجات الهوائية يحتاجون دائماً لمن يقيس لهم درجة ضغط إطارات الدّراجة الهوائية وإعادة ملئها بالهواء إن لزم الامر، عمل هذا الفريق على بناء منصة امام الحرم الجامعي عرضوا من خلالها خدمة "قياس الهواء لإطارات الدراجة" مجاناً، وفي حالة كانت الإطارات بحاجة لأن تملأ بالهواء، فإن على صاحب الدراجة أن يدفع دولاراً واحداً في حال رغب بهذه بملء إطارات دّراجته.

بالرغم من أنه يمكن للطلاب أن يعيدوا ملء إطارات دراجاتهم بالهواء من أي أقرب مكان خارج الحرم الجامعي، وبالمجان، إلا أنهم أقبلوا على الخدمة المقدمة من هذا الفريق، فالخدمة مريحة وقيمة، ولا تتطلب إنفاق مبلغ كبير، دولار واحد لملء إطارات الدّراجة الهوائية ليس بالكثير، لاسما أنهم سيقيسون ضغط الإطارات قبل ذلك، وإن لم تكن بحاجة لإعادة ملئها بالهواء، فإن خدمة قياس الضغط مجانية.

في منتصف فترة الساعتين، توقف الفريق عن طلب دولار لملء لقاء خدمتهم، وبدلاً من ذلك طلبوا من الطلاب التبرع بالأموال إذا أحبوا الخدمة، المثير للاهتمام أنهم قد حققوا أرباحاً أكثر عندما كان عملاؤهم يقومون بالتبرع بدلاً من دفع مبلغ محدد مسبقاً.

كما في حالة الفريق الأول، تأتي الاستفادة من نتائج التقاط ملاحظة من سير العملية التشغيلية وتسخيرها في إجراء تغييرات تجلب المزيد من المكاسب.

الفريق الثالث: إعلان تجاري

الفريق الثالث هو الفريق الذي حقق أكبر ربح من بين جميع الفرق المشاركة، حقق 650 دولاراً، المفاجئة ليس بأنه لم يستخدم الـخمسة الدولارات كما فعلة الفرقتين السابقتين، بل أنه لم يستخدم الساعتين المتاحتين لتحقيق الربح أيضاً!

هذا الفريق نظر إلى الموارد التي يملكها من منظور مختلف عن جميع الفرق الأخرى، حيث وجد بأن أثمن مورد لديه هو الدقائق الثلاث التي سيعرضون من خلالها فكرة مشروعهم أمام الطلاب، ووجدوا بأن افضل وسيلة لاستغلال هذه الدقائق كانت بيع إعلان للشركات التي تريد توظيف طلاب الجامعات كمتدربين لديها، وهذا ما حصل أنشأ الفريق إعلاناً تجارياً مدته ثلاث دقائق لإحدى الشركات مقابل 650 دولاراً، عرضو من خلاله تعريفاً بالشركة وبالمزايا والشروط للراغبين بالانضمام إليه كمتدربين.

ما هي محركات الابتكار؟

يأتي الدور الآن على السؤال حول الكيفية التي توصل بها طلبة الدكتورة سيليغ لتلك الأفكار المبتكرة، وإذا اردنا تعميم هذا السؤال على جميع الأفكار المبتكرة، فيمكن طرح السؤال بطريقة مختلفة؛ ما هي العوامل التي تخلق الابتكار؟ في الحقيقة لا يوجد وصفة جاهزة، لكن سيليغ تقدم مجموعة من 6 عوامل داخلية وخارجة تؤثر على الابداع.

العناصر الداخلية هي:

أولاً: المعرفة

المعرفة أو كما تسميها سيليغ "صندوق الأدوات الخاصة بك، كلما زادت معرفتك بمجال ما، كلما زادت احتمالية اخراج جوانب جديدة إلى الضوء. إذا أردنا اسقاط هذا العامل على تجربة الفرق الفائزة في التجربة، فسنلاحظ أن جميعها استغلوا معرفتهم بالطلاب ومشاكلهم واحتياجاتهم ومدى أهمية الجامعة نفسها، فالفريق الذي عرض اعلاناً تجارياً أدرك أهمية تقديمهم لعرض امام طلاب جامعة عريقة كجامعة ستانفورد، كذلك أدركوا حاجة الشركات لتوظيف الطلاب كمتدربين، أي أنهم استغلوا معرفتهم العميقة للطلاب وللعلاقة التبادلية التي يمكن أن تنشأ بين الطلاب والشركات.

ثانياً: الخيال

الجميع يمتلك العديد من الأفكار حول موضوعات ومجالات مختلفة عن بعضها البعض، الإبداع يكمن في نسج روابط بين تلك الأفكار، لإبداع ما هو جديد. يمكنك ملاحظة أن الفرق الثلاث الفائزة لم تقم ببيع خدمة جديدة في الحقيقة، بل ما فعلته هو ربط فكرة بيع هذه الخدمات بالظرف والموارد المحيطة بهم.

ثالثاً: السلوك

الأفكار الريادية كثيرة، ويمكن للكثير منها أن يبقى حبيس العقول، ما يجعلها مجسده على أرض الواقع، هو توفر الدافع للبدء بها.

العوامل الخارجية الثلاث المؤثرة في الابتكار:

أولاً: الموارد

ربما أفضل ما يمكن تعلمه من تجربة الطلاب الفائزين في تجربة ستانفورد هو في إعادة النظر بالموارد المتاحة التي غالباً ما يكون بعضها مجرد مشتت للانتباه عن موارد أخرى نوليها اهتماماً أقل. إذا عدنا للتجربة فسنرى بان الفرق الفائزة تجاهلت الـدولارات الخمسة، التي من المفترض أن تكون رأس مالهم الأولي لتوليد الأرباح، أما الفريق الذي حقق أعلى ربح، فقد تجاهل حتى الساعتين المتاحتين للعمل على توليد الربح، ونظر إلى مورد كان قد تجاهله الجميع، وهو الدقائق الثلاث التي سيعرضون فيها مشروعهم امام زملائهم في الفصل.

إن إعادة التفكير في هذه التجربة في سياق حياتنا المهنية قد تمكننا من اكتشاف الموارد التي تعمينا عما يمكن لنا إنجازه عند الاستغناء عنها، والتفكير في الموارد الأخرى الأكثر أهمية، الموارد التي تقع خارج صندوق الأفكار التقليدية.

ثانياً: البيئة المحيطة

البيئة الحاضنة للأبداع، من حيث المكان الذي تتم فيه عملية ابتكار الأفكار، والمكان الذي ستطبق فيه، ومفهوم البيئة المحيطة يتجاوز، بطبيعة الأحوال، مفهوم المكان، إلى كل ما هو محيط بالعملية الإبداعية، من فريق العمل إلى السوق، وليس انتهاءً بالموارد والإمكانيات التي توفرها البيئة المحيطة.

ثالثاً: الثقافة

تصف سيليغ ثقافة الشركة أو فريق العمل "بالموسيقى الخلفية" للشركة، التي تؤثر على عواطف الموظفين من حيث قدرتها على دفعهم وتحفيزهم حيال عملهم، وبالتالي تنعكس على إنتاجهم.

واخيراً، يبقى القول بان العناصر التي حددتها سيليغ ليست عناصر مجردة ومنفصلة عن بعضها البعض، بالقدر الذي تظهر به، على العكس من ذلك هي عناصر تتفاعل مع بعضها البعض، وتكون نتيجة تفاعلها إما محرك دافع نحو الابتكار والابداع أو محبط للعملية الإبداعية.

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Psychology Today

Ivyexec

Medium

 

 

 

 

 

Translated by: Hayat Hernández

 

The principles of innovation in the world of entrepreneurship

Imagine receiving an envelope with the following letter: “you have 5 dollars in your account, you are going to use it as an investment (initial capital), how much money can you gain from it in 2 hours?”

Before you start thinking about your options let’s have a look on what American Stanford University students did regarding this experiment in order to draw a lesson from it and determine the significant factors which drive the entrepreneurial innovation.

About the Stanford experiment

This mission was assigned by the American lecturer and coach, Tina Seelig to her students in one of Stanford University classes as part of “Stanford Technology Ventures” program, each team of the 14th participating received an envelope with 5 dollars as an initial venture, and they had been told that they could take a lot of time planning their investment if needed, but as soon as the envelope was open they would have only 2 hours to earn the largest amount of money possible.

What would you do if you accept this challenge?

Professor Tina Seelig describes the most common answers you hear when this kind of questions is asked, answers can be divided into 2 types, the first one can be referred to as gambling “buy a lottery ticket”. And the second one is more traditional, like buying the basic materials for lemon selling business, or washing cars for instance. Selig stated “this plan is suitable for those who seek to gain few extra dollars out of the 5 in a 2 hour period”

Entrepreunial innovation

In contrast with most common answers to this kind of challenge, a few number of participating teams illustrated many nontraditional possibilities of what you can do with 5 dollars in 2 hours, or even without them!. Here’s what these three winning groups accomplished at the end of the experiment, knowing that they gained more than 600$ and never even used the 5$ at all!

The first team: selling restaurants reservations

This group determined the most common obstacles that most students face, such as the endless queues at popular restaurants on Saturday. They decided to solve this problem by making reservations at many restaurants and then selling them to student who don’t want to wait in line for a long time, this group sold each reservation for 20 dollars.

The importance of what this team accomplished doesn’t just shows the creativity in time management to earn a lot of money but also the flexibility in arranging plans and taking all the resources in consideration. As they noticed that female students are more skillful at selling the reservations than males, considering most student normally would trust more a female stranger to buy restaurant reservations from.

So based on this thought, they adjusted the plan so male students would buy the reservations and the females would sell them to student waiting in line.

The second team: inflating bike tires

The second group noticed that the most popular means of transportation at campus are bikes instead of cars, and because bikers always need to check their tiers pressure and fill them up with air, this group built a platform in front of the college campus and offered to check the bikers tires for free, so in case they needed to be filled up then the service would cost one dollar if the biker wanted this service.

Although students can inflate their tires for free at the nearest place outside campus, they accepted the service this group was offering, since it is effortless, worthy, and doesn’t require spending a lot of money on, one dollar for pumping a tire isn’t a high cost, especially that they would check their pressure first, if they didn’t need to be inflated then the checking service was for free.

After an hour had passed the team stopped asking for a dollar for the service, instead they asked the students to donate some money if they were pleased by the service. Interestingly, they made a lot of profit with the donations than when they were asking for the cost of the service.

Similarly to the first group, the benefit comes from the outcomes of the operational process, and harnessing it to learn how to make changes in order to gain more profit.

The third team: releasing a commercial

This team made the biggest profit amongst all participants, making 650$. The surprise was that this group didn’t use the 5$ and neither the 2 hours of the experiment. They looked at their resources from a completely different aspect. They realized that the most valuable resource they had was the first 3 minutes they needed to do their presentation in front the other students. And they found that the best way to harness these three minutes is to sell an advertisement for 650$ to companies that would like to hire college student as interns, they illustrated a preview of the company with its characteristics and requirements for those who would want to join it.

What are the innovation enablers?

The important question now is how did Seelig’s students came up with those ingenious ideas? And if we want to generalize this question, we may ask it in a different way, “what are the significant factors that drive innovation?” Actually there isn’t an only answer for this question, but Seelig presented six internal and external factors that shape creativity and the innovative process.

The internal factors

  • Knowledge

Or as Seelig calls it “your special toolbox”. The more you know about something, the more you are capable of creating new aspects of it.

If we want to measure this factor on the winner groups experiment, we will realize that all of them tapped their knowledge of the students and the problems they face constantly, in addition to the value of the university itself, as the team that announced the commercial knew the importance of their presentation in front of the other students in a university as considerable as Stanford.

Furthermore, they acknowledged the companies need to hire their interns, which states that they had a deep acquaintance of the students and the mutual relationship between them and the company.

  • Imagination

Everybody owns a lot of ideas on different topics and domains. The ingenuity lies in merging these ideas into creating something completely new and unique. We can see that these groups didn’t sell a new type of service, but what they accomplished is combining the idea of selling it with the conditions that were available then.

  • Attitude

There are plenty of entrepreneur ideas we can think of, and a lot of them can remain sealed in one’s mind unless there was a motive for them to be executed.

The three external factors that shape the innovation process

  • Resources

Maybe the best thing someone can learn from the Stanford experiment is reconsidering the available resources which are mostly distracting from others that we don’t think of as important but may result very useful to us.

If we go back to the experiment we will see that the winning teams ignored the 5 dollars that were counted as initial capital to make profit. Seeing that the team with the highest profit ignored the 2 hours as well and cared only about the first 3 minutes of the presentation in front of their colleagues.

The merit of reconsidering new resources in this experiment applied on our labor life can help us acknowledge the resources that may prevent us from discovering even more suitable resources, the ones that are “outside the box”.

  • Habitat

The place were ground breaking ideas are being created isn’t represented by the square cubes surrounding you, but it’s broadly embodied by the team members, as well as the market, along with the resources and possibilities our habitat offers.

  • Culture

Seelig describes a company’s culture or the team workers as “the company’s background music”, which influences the employee’s emotions by its ability to motivate them to do their job perfectly, thus, reflecting them on their production.

Conclusively, it is stated that seelig’s factors are not extracted, in fact they are all related in a way that they interact with each other resulting either a motivational engine for creativity, or a deterrence of the innovation process.

After centuries of analog technology ruling the roost, the modern business world has begun to embrace—after some initial reluctance—the power and potential of digital transformation. The promise of technologies such as artificial intelligence, data analytics, the Internet of Things (IoT), process automation, and others lies in their ability to give businesses greater productivity and profitability than ever before. But to get the most out of these technologies and achieve true digital transformation success, you need a well-developed strategy that goes far beyond downloading the latest apps.

Replacing old technologies and processes with digital solutions takes care, planning, and persistence. But with the right approach and tools, you can build and implement a winning plan for successful digital transformation in your business.

The Rich Promise of Digital Transformation


Empowered and defined by a broad range of technologies, digital transformation is the comprehensive adoption of these same technologies to improve productivity, competitive advantage, operational efficiency, profitability, and innovative strength. It’s a high priority for companies from all industries and of all sizes, from small businesses to mega-conglomerates. A 2018 survey from the Economist Intelligence Unit found that industry leaders were enticed by the significant gains in both efficiency and innovation offered by digital transformation technology, with nearly half of respondents focused on operational (48%) and cost (47%) efficiency improvements as well as new business models (45%) and markets (44%).

Procurement is an area of especially strong potential for savings and value; a 2018 study by research firm The Hackett Group found that world-class organizations who effectively implemented automation and artificial intelligence into their procurement system achieved up to 70% savings per order, and cut process costs by 22% through better decision making, machine learning, and process improvement. The potential savings from a successful digital transformation effort were even greater for mid-range organizations, whose process costs dropped by up to 30% with digital technologies.

Yet despite their promise, digital transformation efforts can be a danger to any company approaching them without a clear-eyed understanding of the work required to transform not just processes and procedures, but corporate culture as a whole. Digital technologies are powerful tools, but they require human intelligence—and enthusiasm—to be used effectively. Without informed and engaged team members across the organization and a long-term digital roadmap built on supporting company ambitions in the digital world, even the most ambitious digital transformation strategy will fail.

Just how difficult can it be? Research firm Mckinsey & Co. found in 2017 that fewer than 30% of companies attempting to implement digital transformation efforts succeed.

Shifting into an “information-centric” business model can take time and considerable effort, especially for companies with a long tradition of analog workflows. In optimizing processes and introducing new technologies across business units, companies inevitably transform their customer experience as well, making a cohesive, comprehensive, and consistent approach to digital transformation even more important.

Achieving Digital Transformation Success


Companies like Hasbro, Best Buy, and Microsoft have all leveraged the power of digital technologies to transform their market position, boost their bottom lines, and enhance their customer experiences. Some, like Amazon, were founded on digital transformation and have built on that base to become titans of eCommerce in the digital age.

While the approaches, and goals, of these companies all vary, their digital initiatives share a certain investment—both figurative and literal—in consistent, complete implementation across their organizations as a whole.

A successful digital transformation strategy is built on, and supported in the long term, by a few simple steps:

1. Build a Digital Transformation Strategy Focused on “The Three Cs”
While specific goals and benchmarks will differ from company to company, achieving and sustaining digital transformation within an organization is much easier with a focus on “The Three Cs”: communication, change management, and continuity.

Communication: From its inception, any digital transformation project, big or small, should be founded on clear and constant communication between the project team, management at all levels, and the organization as a whole. This ensures everyone is in the loop on the focus of the project, their specific roles within it, and the availability of resources to help them perform those roles. In addition, continuous communication helps build a spirit of shared endeavor and ensures everyone has the information they need to address any frustrations, roadblocks, or other challenges that may occur as time passes.


Change Management: The role of change management within digital business transformation is twofold. Firstly, it allows you to track, measure, and analyze the changes being made and produces useful data for further process and production optimization. Secondly, it can be used to implement updates to existing workflows, digitization efforts (e.g., conversion of all documentation, communication, etc. to digital formats to eliminate paper-based delays, expense, and errors) and digital tools in stages. This gives you finer control and allows for a longer adjustment period if staff, management, vendors, customers, etc. need training and additional information to engage fully in the new technologies being used.


Continuity: Like water working a channel into stone, enduring (and effective) digital transformation initiatives require time and patience. Taking the long view in planning, with a clear and consistent approach to achieving long-term goals through incremental change, can often carry you across the finish line more successfully than emphasizing speed or short-term gains.


2. Evaluate Your Existing Situation with Honesty and Clarity


While it can be tempting to deal with the business world’s challenges by throwing money and bleeding-edge tech at them, it’s unlikely the accounting team, senior management, the IT department or your customers will support such a casual digital strategy. Before you can apply digital tools to the problems your company wants to solve, you need a clear and uncompromised view of just how extensive those problems really are.

Depending on the scope of your digital transformation project, it may be necessary to evaluate all of the workflows, procedures, policies, and practices that support the function, business unit, or division you’re looking to transform. A similar evaluation of your entire organization is next, as you’ll need to contextualize project goals within the overarching ambitions of your company—and, if you are taking a continuity-minded approach, having a clear view of your organization’s challenges can help you implement later stages of digital transformation more easily within the framework you build after evaluation.

For example, let’s say your current project is to update your purchasing software in order to achieve deeper savings, reduce risk, and build business value through process improvement. Developing a plan to expand the benefits of automation, cloud-based document storage, and real-time data analysis to the rest of your company will be much easier down the road, including integration with existing accounting or enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions as a stepping-stone to a complete, centralized digital solution connecting all parts of your company and supporting company-wide goals.

Knowing where your company is, and what it needs to do to reach the place it would like to be, is essential to building a roadmap that will get you there.

3. Sell Your Vision to the C-Suite


Digital innovation can be a hard sell to upper management, particularly in companies with a very financially conservative approach and general suspicion toward “the latest and greatest.” But because the C-Suite plays a pivotal role in defining company culture and goals, it’s crucial to bring them up to speed and ensure they have the digital savvy necessary to understand both the immediate and long-term benefits of technologies such as process automation, machine learning, and advanced data analytics. Once they’re sold, they can be a powerful ally in communicating the role of digital transformation in setting and reaching organizational goals.

4. But Don’t Overlook Your Front-Line Staff


The right people in the right place, doing the right thing. It’s possible, with digital transformation. But just as your CIO and other C-level management provide inspiration and leadership, your team members and management provide the day-to-day work “in the trenches.” Getting buy-in from all team members is essential, because they’re the people who will be using the new software, mobile apps, and other digital tools that drive the transformation you seek.

Your staff can be an invaluable source of feedback, too, improving decision-making as you tweak your long-term implementation efforts to ensure everyone has access, information, and complete understanding of their obligations within the new system.

5. Build a Project Team That Can Stay the Course


Connect the C-suite, management, staff, and project personnel, as well as any third parties such as consultants and vendors, to form a project team. This group will take the inspiration and leadership provided by executive management, connect it to the goals of the digital transformation project, and engage the company as a whole.

It supports The Three Cs by consistently communicating with all stakeholders, managing change in line with project and company goals, culture, and capabilities, and ensuring the project’s long-term goals are never compromised by or lost to short-term adjustments.

6. Team up with the Right Technology Providers


With any digital transformation initiative, the technology partners you choose are much more than vendors, especially if—to return to the purchasing software example—the transformation your project supports is both broad and deep. The learning curve for moving from analog, pen-and-paper purchasing workflows to automated processes built around continuous improvement can be significant. That’s why it’s important to choose tech providers who can also give your staff and IT team the training and support they need to weather the digital transformation successfully.

Tech providers can also offer insights from their own experience to help guide you as you define your project’s goals, timeline, and scope, and thus become partners in shared success.

7. Develop and Communicate Your Short and Long-Term Schedule


Into every life, and project, a little rain must fall. But even the most torrential downpour is no match for a well-defined list of priorities, responsibilities, and benchmarks once they’ve been established.

Frequent communication of project goals, milestones, and timeframes helps maintain engagement and enthusiasm across the board.

Clear definition of responsibilities and roles, and the ways in which they support the project, help minimize delays, errors, and omissions.

A straightforward, but adjustable, timetable allows for breathing room while still establishing measurable and visible progress.

source: planergy

 

أعلنت شركتا فواز عبد العزيز الحكير والمراكز العربية السعوديتين عن استحواذهما على 51% منصة البيع الإلكتروني للأزياء "فوغا كولسيت" والتي تتخذ من لندن مركزاً لها.

الاستحواذ مقابل 36.8 مليون دولار

تمت عملية الاستحواذ مقابل 36.8 مليون دولار (حوالي 138 مليون ريال سعودي)، وتعد الصفقة مزيجاً من الاستحواذ وزيادة رأس المال، فبحسب ما جاء في البيان الصحفي للحكير فإن حصتها من شركة "فوغا كلوسيت" سوف تصبح بعد زيادة رأسمال الأخير 25.5% من خلال شراء أسهم بقيمة 18.4 مليون دولار (حوالي 68.9 مليون ريال سعودي).

بالمقابل فإن حصة شركة المراكز العربية من "فوغا كلوسيت" ستبلغ 25.5% بقيمة 18.4 مليون دولار منها 6.4 مليون دولار في شراء أسهم، و12 مليون دولار كزيادة في رأس مال "فوغا كلوسيت".

لتكون بذلك حصة شركتي الحكير والمراكز العربية بالمجموع هي 51% من أسهم شركة "فوغا كلوسيت".

مشروع مشترك

بحسب ما جاء في البيان الصحفي فإنه من المتوقع أن يتم دمج شركة "فوغا كلوسيت" في مشروع مشترك ("JV") أنشأه كُل من الحكير والمراكز العربية بهدف تطوير الفرص المستقبلية لغرض بناء تجربة "قنوات متعددة" لا مثيل لها لرائدي تجارة التجزئة في المملكة، تستهدف المستهلكين والتجار على حد سواء، وتشمل الخطط قيد الإعداد إطلاق برنامج "ولاء" إلى جانب عرض تمويل المستهلك. لا مثيل لها لرائدي تجارة التجزئة في السعودية

"فوغا كلوسيت" ستستمر في الإدارة

ستواصل "فوغا كلوسيت" العمل بقيادة فريقها الحالي، حيث ستستمر عملية إدارة وتشغيل منصتها على الإنترنت من خلال فريقها التنفيذي الحالي، بما فيهم المدير التنفيذي ومدير العمليات، لمدة 5 سنوات على الأقل، وسيتم تشكل مجلس إدارة للتوجيه العام والإشارة والإدارة لشركة "فوغا كلوسيت" مؤلفاً من سبعة أعضاء: أثنان ترشحهما شركة المراكز العربية، ومثلهما تشرحهما شركة الحكير، وثلاثة يرشحهم المساهمون التنفيذيون.

الهدف من الصفقة

تأتي الصفقة كجزء من مسار التحول الرقمي للشركات الشرق أوسطية بشكلٍ العام والشركات السعودية بشكلٍ خاص، فشركة الحكير، تعمل في تجارة الجملة والتجزئة للملابس الجاهزة والأثاث والمفروشات والمعدات وأجهزت الاتصالات، كذلك تعمل شركة المراكز العربية مشغلة ومالكة لأكبر المجمعات التجارية في المملكة السعودية.

وبهذه الصفقة سيكون من المتاح للشركتين إجراء عملية تحول رقمي واسعة النطاق من خلال الاستفادة من خبرة ومكانة شركة بحجم "فوغا كلوسيت" الرائدة في مجال الأزياء والموضة والبيع بالتجزئة عبر الانترنت.

وعن أهداف شركة "فوغا كلوسيت" فقد علقت حنين حمارنة "المديرة التنفيذية الإقليمية للشركة، "تعد الشراكة مع الحكير والمراكز العربية في المملكة العربية السعودية..قفزة استراتيجية لشركة "فوغا كلوسيت"..ستدعم هذه الشراكة، والاستثمار الجديد الذي ستجلبه، تسريع تنفيذ خطط النمو الطموحة للغاية في المملكة العربية السعودية والشرق الأوسط، وستساعدنا على التوسع السريع في سوق منتجات موردينا".

وأضافت "نحن متحمسون لإتاحة الفرصة لنا للحصول على الدعم والعمل عن كثب مع أثنين من القادة الإقليميين المعروفين لفتح أسواق كبيرة ومتنامية".

Translated by: Hayat Hernández

Fawaz Abdulaziz Alhokair Co. (“Alhokair”) and Arabian Centers Company (“ACC”) have announced that they will acquire a combined 51% stake in “Vogacloset”, a UK-based online fast fashion platform.

 

Acquisition for 36.8 million dollars 

This operation has been carried out for 36.8 USD (around 138 million SAR), the deal is considered a composition between acquisition and capital appreciation. As according to Alhokair’s press release, their share of “Vogacloset” will reach 25.5% after increasing its last capital by buying 18.4 million USD shares (about 86.9 million SAR).

On the other hand, ACC’s share of “Vogacloset” will reach up to 25.5% with an 18.4 USD value. In other words, 6.4 million USD were attributed to buying the stocks and 12 million USD as a capital rise in “Vogacloset”.

As a result, Alhokair and ACC’s combined share has reached 51% of Vogacloset’s.

 

Joint Venture 

According to the press release, it’s thought that “Vogacloset” will be incorporated in a joint venture “JV” established by both ACC and Alhokair in order to boost the development of future opportunities, and aiming to build the two leading Saudi retail players’ unprecedented “omnichannel” experience, regarding consumers and merchants alike. Unsettled plans include launching a “loyalty” program alongside a consumer finance offer.

 

“Vogacloset” will remain in the leadership

Vogacloset will still be operating, conducted by its executive team who will keep managing its online platform, alongside the CEO and COO for at least the next 5 years. A Board of Directors commanding Vogacloset’s overall direction, supervision, and management will be established comprising of seven members: two nominated by ACC, two nominated by Alhokair, and three nominated by the executive shareholders.

 

The Aim of the Deal

This transaction is part of the path of digital transformation in MENA corporations in general and the Saudi’s in particular. Alhokair operates in the retail and wholesale trade in fashion, household furniture, electronics equipment, and telecommunications. As well as ACC, owner and conductor of Saudi Arabia’s biggest shopping malls.

Both corporations will have the ability to undertake a large-scale digital transformation by leveraging the expertise of “Vogacloset” in online fashion retail business.

 

And as Hanin Hamarneh, CEO of “Vogacloset”, commented on the topic:

“Partnering with Alhokair and ACC in Saudi Arabia, our key market, is a strategic leap for Vogacloset. This partnership, and the new investment that it will bring, will support and accelerate the execution of our very ambitious growth plans in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East, and will help us to rapidly expand the market for our suppliers’ products. We are excited about the opportunity to have the support of, and work closely with, two recognized regional leaders to unlock a huge and growing market.” 

2020 has been a tough year for everyone, even the world’s best economies hardly survived. Given this fact, you would assume developing countries like some African nationas paid the highest price. However, earlier this year, #Africa4Future held its annual call for projects.

About 212 responded with applications from start-ups from 28 different countries across Africa. Here we present our top 5 African startups list. This year’s focus was on remote sensing for precision agriculture and infrastructure development.

AgriEdge

This is a promising startup from Morocco which aims ar providing precision agriculture services to small farms. They focus on irrigation, fertilization, diseases and crop yield. By using sensors, they deliver the right amount of water where needed through a user-friendly mobile application. They apply the same logic for fertilization more or less, with a model predictng the amout of fertilizer to deliver after an assessment of weather, soil data and satellite info.

Their approach to disease containment is very cutting edge. Through the app “Phytodetect” farmers are able to get notifications on their crop status and possible future threats just by uploading pictures. Looks like we are really about to see a revolution in agriculture thanks to the ever-growing technology.

Flamingoo Foods

Sometimes simple solutions are the best. In fact, with farmers producing food but not being able to commercialize it companies like Flamingoo Foods apprear to help. Flamingoo Foods is a leading rice producer in the Rukwa Valley. Our rice mill sources and stores paddy rice of high quality from farmers within the valley. The paddy is then milled to become the tasty Flamingoo Foods rice, which is supplied nationally in wholesale and exported to neighboring countries.

Where formerly families in the Rukwa Valley relied on donkeys to transport paddy from remote fields, their army of trucks provides them reliable access to markets. Currently, Flamingoo moves more than 200 metric tons of food per month.

RuralFarmers Hub


RuralFarmers Hub provides agricultural services to smallholder farmers. This company is really trying to take things to the next level, connecting space and earth in a sense. Indeed, their main product, Capture, uses a proprietary algorithm and satellite data to generate real-time farming advice that is delivered to farmers.

Among their services we have e-Extension Service, Remote Crop Monitoring, Farm Risk Assessment and Sustainable Rural Developement. Extension Service combines remote sensing and the good agricultural practices to give farmers the best advice via SMS or even by call.

Crop2Cash

We all know that one the biggest problems of african startups might be the lack of resources. With over 38 million smallholder farmers in Nigeria lacking access to finance to increase their agricultural production, simple and fast solutions are much needed. Crop2Cash with its CashCard enables smallholder farmers in rural Nigeria to receive digital payments and build their financial identity. Through their SupplyBase agro-processors can manage their supply relationships with farmers digitally. No need for suppliers to wait for days to receive oayments for supplying an agro-processor, all tanks to an entirely digitised process.

XY Analytics

Last but not least is XY Analytics. We all imagine how difficult managing livestock can be, this start-up from South Africa is working on a herd management tool to enable the monitoring of health, movement, reproductive status and location of livestock. Thulani Nyandeni and Kearabetswe Nyandeni started the company in 2016 to help local cattle owners remotely monitor the health status and location of their herd. Their flagship? Melusi Connect…

Melusi Connect is an application which uses an IoT device attached on a cow’s ear to collect real-time critical health information such as body temperature, blood pressure, noise, and others. This data is then processed by a machine learning engine that generates insight and recommendations about the individual animal.

All these data have a massive role in shaping the farmers’ decisions who can access their dashboards to have intel. This sounds a little too technical right? Wha about illiterate farmers? Not a problem, the application provides seamless messaging alerts accessible both to educated and illiterate cattle farmers.

source: startupworld.tech

UAE-founded Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) provider tabby  has raised Series A financing round of $23 million in debt and equity led by Arbor Ventures and Mubadala Capital, with participation from STV, Raed Ventures, Global Founders Capital, JIMCO, Global Ventures, Venture Souq, Outliers VC, MSA Capital, HOF and AB Accelerator. 

This funding will fuel the company’s next stage of growth, helping tabby scale its product and engineering capabilities in addition to its lending capacity, further benefiting its merchant partners and consumers.

Founded in 2019, tabby partners with retailers to offer their customers online or in-store the ability to defer paying for their purchases for up to 30 days or to pay in four equal monthly installments at zero cost to the consumer.

Today, tabby’s customers are able to use its service across more than 500 integrated merchants across the UAE and Saudi Arabia, including global brands like IKEA, Toys R Us and Ace Hardware and regional retail giants including Al Futtaim Group, Landmark Group and Apparel Group.

"BNPL solutions are booming globally thanks to accelerated payments digitisation and e-commerce penetration, and the Middle East is no exception. tabby’s solution fits squarely within our thesis that fintech solutions will drive better experiences for merchants and consumers. We are excited to partner with Hosam and his team as they build tabby into a regional fintech leader,” said Ibrahim Ajami, Head of Ventures at Mubadala.

tabby has managed to successfully capitalise on three key Covid-driven trends that have helped fuel its growth: the dwindling availability of consumer credit, the adoption of contactless payments by consumers, and the rapid retail shift online. According to a report by Kearney Middle East, the average share of GCC households that have bought goods online has reached over 8 per cent in 2020. Given the range in developed markets sits at 16 to 25 per cent, there is significant room for growth. This digital shift is also seen offline, with mobile payments for point of sale transactions in Saudi Arabia having grown 495 per cent for the past year until September, according to Saudi Payments.

“The shift to online retail has never been more evident, and with it, consumers are becoming ever more demanding as they actively seek convenience and reliability in their shopping experience.

And this includes how they pay for their purchases. We’re very proud of the value we’ve been able to bring our retail partners by providing their customers with an exceptionally convenient and flexible way to pay,” said Hosam Arab, co-founder and CEO of tabby.

The company says integration of its payment service can increase conversion rates by over 20 per cent and boost transaction sizes anywhere from 30 to 85 per cent, by providing consumers with access to zero-cost, real-time credit. Moreover, tabby says it has also helped online retailers convert a growing share of their customers from paying in cash to paying digitally due to the value proposition of interest-free installments.

This round of financing comes after tabby announced a partnership with Visa and joined the Saudi Arabian Central Bank’s regulatory sandbox.

source: wamda

Business in the UAE has traditionally been face-to-face, and the same is true with enterprise learning. Many believe that stronger connections are built with in-person learning and that participants are more engaged with course material if they’re in physical sessions. Additionally, training is seen as a perk to recognise the success of hardworking employees.

However, the Covid-19 pandemic wiped the opportunity for face-to-face learning out almost entirely. According to WEF’s Future of Jobs Report, nearly 80 per cent of businesses in the UAE have accelerated their business digitisation because of Covid-19 - and a big part of this has been delivering virtual learning to ensure the skills and accreditations of their employees remain current.

But moving Learning and Development (L&D) online hasn’t been an easy task. Companies have had to find content and technology partners to deliver learning at scale to fit fast-changing business needs. They’ve had to work quickly to ensure that staff can access materials and, crucially, that employees realise that a move online doesn’t mean compromised quality. The good news is that a culture of open-mindedness and a willingness to diversify has always resulted in the UAE being at the forefront of embracing and deploying groundbreaking innovations and best practices. So how are businesses in the UAE transitioning to online learning, and what benefits are there for those who get it right?

Delivering against business objectives

The shift to virtual learning is likely to be a new approach for many businesses and it may take time to identify what works best. Even though speed has been the essence in the past few months, this mustn’t be at the expense of ongoing reflection and measurement. As programmes roll out, it’s important to continue reviewing, refining, and improving them to better understand what success looks like and secure support from learners and stakeholders.

Some companies meet this challenge by complementing ready-made courses from industry and university educators with content created by their own organisation. This is possible using tools Private Authoring tools, which allows businesses to create their own projects, courses, and assessments. Indeed, companies such as Hertz are already using this to develop courses in areas like IT, SaaS management, data visualisation, and software onboarding.

The companies best placed to succeed have a clear view of their learning objectives. These vary - from the need to attract and retain staff, to helping employees re-train and upskill to fit changing business needs. Whatever these needs are, learning strategies are more likely to permeate through an organisation if seen as a strategic business imperative linked to specific business outcomes - not ‘just’ a job for HR departments.

Driving employee uptake to ensure your investment pays off

Savvy companies in the region are not just looking to provide access and availability of learning resources. For them, employee adoption is a critical measure of success. Digital resources of any kind can be effective only if employees embrace them. While the change in organisational practices can be daunting, the benefits far outweigh any apprehensions.

While the C-suite cares about the bottom line, promoting more immediate benefits will resonate more with employees. These might include reduced travelling time, a quicker response rate to training needs and more convenient accessibility for a global audience.

Right now, it may well also mean the ability to better work remotely, fostering virtual collaboration through shared course experiences and interactions. It is also about emotional well-being - research shows that the act of learning helps cope with stress, and online learning can empower employees to continue investing in their futures -  crucial in such an uncertain period. As an example, The Science of Wellbeing course by Yale University has become the most popular course on our platform this year, reaching over 2.5 million enrollments.

Notably, while companies in the region have perhaps previously favoured face-to-face training, staff must now be shown how virtual learning can deliver improved quality - through consistent and measurable learning experiences instead of the more free-flowing in-person classroom environment.

Focusing on the skills needed to meet new business challenges

The pandemic will likely encourage businesses to reassess the skills they need and how they deliver them to their workforce. As the region sets its sights on recovery, a robust and scalable virtual enterprise learning infrastructure is essential to ensuring that organisations can respond with agility. For example, Coursera’s Skills Development Dashboard enables companies to measure how their learning programme is helping employees - ensuring they’re making progress and delivering against objectives.

Rather than encouraging the development of narrow skill sets, many organisations are now looking to promote a resilient mindset. Indeed, McKinsey’s recent report cited ‘adaptability’ as an essential skills for employees in a post-Covid world. By prioritising this mindset, companies can cultivate employees who move from skill to skill with sufficient ease to hold and develop new roles as opportunities come and go.

This is partly why we’ve seen a greater focus on soft skills from companies across the globe. On Coursera, year on year enrollments for personal development courses grew by 500 per cent this year. Some of the most popular include Learning How to Learn by the University of California, How to Understand Arguments by Duke University and Communicating Effectively in Groups by the University of Colorado. As businesses navigate uncharted territory, developing these soft skills will become more critical.

One of the most important business priorities for companies right now is keeping employees engaged and supported. Offering learning opportunities signals continued investment in their professional development, even as companies tackle a challenging economic climate. And, of course, in cases where employees cannot do some or all of their job during the pandemic, learning can help them advance their skills so they come back better prepared when work resumes.

A final word

We know that companies in the UAE are quickly pivoting to online learning, driven by the need to continue adapting amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The most successful ones are aware that delivering against a well-designed enterprise learning strategy is not just a ‘nice to have’ but an absolute necessity that impacts business performance. They see L&D firmly as a boardroom issue, which determines profitability, resilience and their ability to grow.

Increasingly, companies in the region enjoy greater access to a diverse selection of courses, superior learning experience, and the ability to better measure progress. Although a short-term necessity has accelerated the move to online learning, the success companies are seeing means that it’s here to stay - long after the pandemic is over.

source: wamdawamda

بدأت ميليتا ديلوس رييس حياتها المهنية في وقت مبكر، حيث عملت كموظفة في شركة عقارية كبيرة في مانيلا، الفلبين، لكن طموح ميليتا دفعها إلى ترك وظيفتها للحصول على شهادة في إدارة الأعمال من جامعة الفلبين المسيحية في عام 1996.

بعد التخرج عملت ميليتا في مجال التسويق والمبيعات في العديد من الشركات. في عام 2006، قررت السفر إلى دبي للعمل في Alpha UK Training" " عملت بشكل رئيسي في قسم الإدارة والعمليات ودعم عمليات قسم التسويق والمبيعات.

كما عملت كمسؤولة عن تنسيق العمليات اللوجستية لأقسام التدريب والتوثيق، وإدارة قواعد البيانات، وإدارة الموردين، والمهام الإدارية، وحفظ الوثائق المكتبية، والحسابات، والاتصال بالمدربين والمتحدثين المختلفين حول العالم.

منصة رواد الأعمال العرب- السويسريين: الانتشار الهائل لمنصات التواصل الاجتماعي وضع رواد الأعمال أمام فرصة لاختيار أفضل طريقة لتسويق منتجاتهم من خلالها، لكن عملية التسويق متعدد القنوات مكلفة للغاية. برأيك، هل العمل على جميع المنصات هو الخيار الأفضل أم اختيار قناة واحدة؟

ميليتا: يستفيد رواد الأعمال من تأثير وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي على أعمالهم.

تعد استراتيجية التسويق القوية عبر وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي أمرًا بالغ الأهمية لجذب الزوار إلى موقعك الإلكتروني، وبناء الوعي بالعلامة التجارية والمجتمع. في حين أنه من الجيد زيادة الظهور على مختلف منصات التواصل الاجتماعي، إلا أنه يتعين عليك التفكير في نوع المنتجات أو الخدمات التي تقدمها والمكان الذي عادة ما يكون فيه السوق التي تستهدفها، فعلى سبيل المثال، إذا كنت تعمل في مجال التجارة الإلكترونية، فإن أفضل طريقة هي أن تكون مرئيًا على فيسبوك Facebook وتفكر في إعلانات FB.

اما إذا كنت تعمل في مجال التدريب أو الاستشارات، فإن لينكدان (LinkedIn) هي أفضل منصة لتعزيز تواجدك على الإنترنت وبناء علامتك التجارية. لينكدان هي أفضل منصة بيع اجتماعية للشركات العاملة مع الشركات والشركات العاملة مع الافراد (B2B وB2C). حيث وجد "Content Marketing Institute" أن 63٪ من المسوقين صنفوا لينكدان على أنه أكثر منصات التواصل الاجتماعي فعالية بين الشركات.

وفقًا لـ Sprout Social " فأنه "مع الشعبية الكبيرة والمتزايدة لقنوات الوسائط الرقمية، أصبح توليد العملاء المحتملين التقليديين شيئًا من الماضي - مما خلق المزيد من الفرص للشركات العاملة مع الشركات والشركات العاملة مع الافراد (B2B وB2C) لقيادة العملاء المحتملين وزيادة المبيعات الآن أكثر من أي وقت مضى."

باستخدام لينكدان، من السهل استهداف سوقك المثالي وإنشاء نظام توليد عملاء محتملين. الأشخاص المحترفون وصناع القرار ورجال الأعمال والمديرين التنفيذيين رفيعي المستوى.

منصة رواد الأعمال العرب- السويسريين: مع مشروعك تركز على التسويق الرقمي على لينكدان، لماذا اخترت هذه المنصة على غيرها؟ ما الذي يميز منصة لينكدان LinkedIn؟


ميليتا:
لدى لينكدان أكثر من 600 مليون مستخدم في جميع أنحاء العالم. إنها مجموعة من الأشخاص المحترفين وصناع القرار ورجال الأعمال والمديرين التنفيذيين رفيعي المستوى والمؤثرين والأثرياء. إن لينكدان مناسبة تمامًا للعلامات التجارية الشخصية ويخلق المزيد من الفرص للشركات العاملة مع الشركات والشركات العاملة مع الافراد (B2B وB2C).

يعتبر النظام الأساسي رقم واحد لتوليد العملاء المتوقعين. إنه مصمم لشبكات الأعمال، وهو منجم ذهب إذا تم استخدامه بشكل صحيح. يحتوي لينكدان على ميزات بحث واستهداف قوية لمساعدتك في العثور على الأشخاص والشركات المناسبة.

منصة رواد الأعمال العرب- السويسريين: كيف تخططين لتنمية مشروعك؟

ميليتا: الاتساق هو المفتاح لتنمية عملك. أحتاج إلى تعظيم استخدام وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي وخاصة التسويق باستخدام لينكدان لتنمية عملي ومتابعي.

أخطط لإضافة المزيد من الخدمات لعملائي مثل كتابة الإعلانات عبر البريد الإلكتروني أو التسويق عبر البريد الإلكتروني لرعاية العملاء المحتملين وخدمة عملائي بشكل أفضل.

منصة رواد الأعمال العرب- السويسريين: هل يمكنك إخبارنا بالمزيد عن خدمات التسويق الرقمي التي يقدمها فريقك؟

ميليتا: نحن وكالة تسويق متكاملة على اعتبار أن لدينا شبكة ضخمة من متخصصي التسويق. يمكننا مساعدتك في التميز عن منافسيك، والحصول على المزيد من العملاء المحتملين وتوسيع نطاق عملك بسرعة.

لدينا استراتيجيون للعلامة التجارية ومصممي رسومات ومساعدين افتراضيين ومديري وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي وخبراء إعلانات فيسبوك Facebook ومصممي مواقع الويب ومؤلفي الإعلانات وما إلى ذلك.

فريقنا متحمس لمساعدة رواد الأعمال على تنمية أعمالهم من خلال صياغة خطة استراتيجية لمواجهة تحديات الأعمال.

منصة رواد الأعمال العرب- السويسريين: ما هي النصيحة التي يمكنك تقديمها لرواد الأعمال الجدد لجعل صفحاتهم الشخصية تظهر بشكل أفضل على منصة لينكدان؟

ميليتا: إذا كنت شركة ناشئة أو رائد أعمال جديد، فمن الأفضل بناء علامتك التجارية الشخصية في لينكدان في الأشهر القليلة الأولى، عليك أن تبني مصداقيتك حتى يتمكن عملاؤك المثاليون من الوثوق بك وتتمثل الخطوة الأولى في تحسين ملف التعريف الخاص بك بحيث تظهر في النتائج الأولى على محركات البحث وتجذب المزيد من مشاهدات الملف الشخصي.

تذكر أن ملف التعريف الخاص بك هو بطاقة عملك على الإنترنت والتي يمكن أن تكون رصيدك في تحديد المواعيد والعملاء المحتملين الجيدين والعملاء رفيعي المستوى.

كن واضحًا بشأن ما تقدمه وفكر في كيفية قيام خدمتك بحل مشكلات السوق المستهدفة.

أما الخطوة الثانية فهي أن تعتبر علمية تنمية أعمالك على لينكدان أولوية وليست هواية. تذكر أن لينكدان عبارة عن منصة بيع اجتماعي، لذا عليك بناء العلاقات ومتابعتها.

اسمحوا لي أن أشارككم تقنيات النمو الخاصة بي على لينكدان والتي يمكن أن تساعد رواد الأعمال الجدد والحاليين:

  1. حسن من ملفك الشخصي على لينكدان LinkedIn.
  2. أنشر محتوى بشكل منتظم.
  3. حسن من صياغة رسائلك الشخصية.
  4. تفاعل مع جمهورك.
  5. ضف جهات اتصال جديدة باتساق.
  6. أنضم إلى مجموعات واصنع مجموعتك الخاصة.
  7. أخلق محتوى جذاب (على سبيل المثال دليل مجاني).
  8. ضف الوسوم ذات الصلة - هاشتاغ.

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With a spotlight on AIM's six pillars - Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Portfolio Investment, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Startups, Future Cities, and One Belt, One Road, AIM Digital 2020 will showcase different features in a secured virtual environment for all its participants from more than 140 countries.

 

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