Entrepreneurship and Professional Practice Blog

Sunday, 18 February 2007

MOTIVATE


What are my motivations for my personal project

  • To raise awareness of ADHD
  • To help reduce number of offenders in prison with ADHD
  • To help teenager sufferers with their social skills
  • To help sufferers with organisation, memory and planning
  • To have a successful career
  • To get educated
  • To build a sense of community
  • To help others
  • To give my son a stable financial future


  • Money
  • Fame
  • Contribution to knowledge
  • For the good of society

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The Sage Business Heartbeat Survey, a new, ongoing piece of research into the ups and downs of business, has identified five key types of business and reveals the key characteristics of each type.

The Sage Business Heartbeat Profiles:

Materialists:
Material things matter for these people, who understand how to make the best out of any opportunity. One in seven UK businesses (14%) is Materialist. At its simplest, they are in it for the money. The attitude pays dividends: two-thirds (67%) report more profits this year than last, and even more expect greater things in future.

Innovators:
These dynamos of UK creativity are the hardest workers and comprise 23% of UK companies. After spotting gaps in the market, they are quick to fill them with their own innovative products and services. The interest in innovation is reflected in their commitment to research and development, and in staff training. They intend to increase this kind of investment more than any other profile.

Developers:
The largest group, comprising a third of UK businesses (34%). They have moved into a management or ownership position through progression in their company, not through any particular planning, so it just sort of “happened”. This lack of absolute focus produces mixed results: they are neither the most bullish nor the most bearish about the future. However, they are least likely to actively encourage their children to go into business (43%)

Lifestylers:
These people started their own businesses in order to take control of their lives. Being their own boss means they control their own destiny and can manage their own hours, but they don’t really manage the perfect work/life balance (inheritors work fewer hours). But the dream is worth investing in – they are most likely to use their own money to fund the business (83%). Like Innovators, about a quarter of UK businesses (23%) are Lifestylers.

Inheritors:
This gloomy group had their business handed down to them by the generation above - and aren’t necessarily happy about it. Just seven per cent of companies are Inheritors and, if they had anything to do with it, the line dies with them. They are least likely to go into business ever again (44% say never again).


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RESEARCH REPORT
Household Survey of Entrepreneurship 2005
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FEBRUARY 2007



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Saturday, 17 February 2007

Input Session 2

What are your motivations for making work in this field?
  • Money?
  • Fame?
  • "Contribution to knowledge"?
  • For the good of society?
Are these motivations apparent in your personal project?

Identify examples of projects that exemplify each of these possible motivations, (and any other that you may think of.)

Monday, 5 February 2007

E&PP -WEEK 1

Started a new module today Entrepreneurship and Professional Practice.
Simon's E&PP blogsite can be found here
We talked firstly about the different types of employment available.
There is
Contract / Agency work
Employed work
Self -employment

Larger scale companies take on sub contractors to do work for them - the advantages of this is
that they are only used when needed so the wage only needs to be paid when there is work to be done,
That no extra office space is needed
Less administration / tax admin

Disadvantages are
Collaborating takes more effort when work is not done in-house


We then lookined at the BBC and the way the BBC’s licensing money
Is shared across the nation.
Ten years ago the BBC was a large employer and had a rosta of trusted ive project work to smaller scale businesses.
During the mid 90’s to 2001 the BBC started to employ people in-house. Some of these people maybe used to work for the smaller production companies that were previously given contracts and the smaller businesses were struggling to survive. suppliers and they would g
For certain tasks/activities, Productions must use contractors drawn from the list of Vetted Contractors available from BBC ORM,
This is the BBC’s working at the BBC health and safety guidance
http://www.bbc.co.uk/foi/docs/working_at_the_bbc/health_and_safety/Contractors_in_Productions.pdf

Channel 4 are running 4 docs where you can film your own documentary and post it online at channel 4 docs.

Channel 4 production processes document

http://www.channel4.com/corporate/4producers/resources/documents/ProductionProcess.pdf


http://www.channel4.com/corporate/4producers

The Commissioning Management team manages various aspects of the commissioning process and the Channel's relationship with independent producers. The main responsibilities are:

  • Ensuring that Channel 4 commissioning is communicating its editorial priorities effectively

  • Promoting a collaborative, transparent and equitable working relationship between Indies and Commissioning Editors

  • Handling any complaints about the Commissioning Process

  • Managing Commissioning departments' overheads and staffing

  • Off-screen talent development

  • Encouraging cultural diversity – both in terms of production teams and in on-screen presence/content

  • Promoting a positive attitude to disability – again in terms of production teams and onscreen presence



nma magazine
See if scale bbc's new media dept is going to be in the future.
Current issue with bbc
look at bbc's list of trusted suppliers - look what scale the businesses are on that work for the BBC.
BBC Bristol / Cardiff
(was 25% of business had to be outside the m25 may now have risen to 40%)

Channel 4's /S4C /endemol/ itv new media department

Lots of new media activities in Bristol / Cardiff

Channel 4 started to break up into different suppliers (eg endemol)
Endemol set up branches in other cities so they claim they operate outside the m25 so they could vie for contracts.

Dragon Studios / PLOC
wda
Media clusters - based around infrastructure

bristol is a model of cross sector model of development - university , orange , 422,
look at the titles to programs

Where new media sector relates to the universities
Military St Athan - Military training school
Olwen Moseley