information technology for women entrepreneurs
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IT tools for entrepreneursTRANSCRIPT
Task: Answer the following
•What is the latest set of product offerings from flipkart?
•What is the profitability of educational institutions in Kota?
• How many dealerships of Maruti Suzuki exist in Karnataka?
•What is the social impact of Jaipur Rugs in Rajasthan?
My experience with IT during the doctoral journey
• Ideas•Collaboration•Work better• Latest research• Save environment•Anytime/Anyplace access
Internet
IT enables creating or reinventing your business
•Idea•Research•Visibility•Functioning•Growing
Internet
Tools for storing ideas
Mindmap
Xmind
Image source: Xmind website
Tools for storing notes
Evernote
Image source: Evernote website
Tools for storing notes
Google Keep
Image source: Google website
IT enables you to “sell” your ideas
Research
Image source: Google website
IT enables you to “sell” your ideas
DocumentationPresentationSpreadsheet
OpenofficeImage source: Apache openoffice website
IT enables you to “sell” your ideas
Visibility
Image source: StreetsIndia website
IT enables you to “sell” your ideas
Visibility
Image source: the complete store website
IT enables you to “sell” your ideas
Visibility
Image source: Facebook website
IT enables you to “sell” your ideas
Visibility
Image source: Twitter website
IT enables you to “sell” your ideas
Connectivity
Image source: Keele university and google website
IT enables you to “sell” your ideas
Connectivity
Image source: Skype website
IT enables you to work better
Accounting
Image source: tally.usegrid.net website
IT enables you to work better
Operations/ decision makingHuman ResourcesMarketing
IT has more advantages than disadvantages
•Efficiency•Effectiveness•Cost Saving•Collaboration•Access to resources•Access to markets
• Information overload• Implementation
IT has more advantages than disadvantages
IT is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently- Unknown
“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”― Abraham Maslow
Small investments in IT give large paybacks
•Lot of low-cost options•On-rent options•Hardware• Software• Tablets/Smartphones - apps
•Many free options• Free tools from Open source
Image source: Respective company websites
More focus on IT as you grow your business
• IT aligned with strategy•Evaluate options•Architecture• Implement •Maintain•Upgrade
Exercise
• Pair up: One experienced in business with one who has none•Work on the business idea of the inexperienced in your team• Identify how IT can help make your idea a reality• Help in launching• Help in expanding• Help in efficient operations• Help in effective marketing
• Present it to the group• Discuss
Information Technology as an enabler of entrepreneurial
venture
Srinivasan Tatachari
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