The desire to grow entrepreneurial society in Nigeria has led governments, international development organizations and multinational enterprises to undertake enterprise development programmes, especially in areas generally flagged as entrepreneurially inactive. After over 10 years of intervention, it is time to take stock and measure impact. Is there any best practice in this line of research you can suggest?
You probably would benefit from the evaluations of Microfinance initiatives.
Enterprise development programs are often targeted towards improving business performance.
It would be a worthless exercise to improve the business performance of a local unit without changing the entire system, if units were interdependent. Business performance is an effective measure of how inputs (people, materials, means, etc.) are utilized in a certain period (measured in terms of operating expenses), in order to realize certain useful outputs in this period.
The paper proposes a method for finding a cumulative balancing index for optimizing a company's total competitiveness position based on the following eight independently measured factors: overall productivity; time-to-market; customer satisfaction; cost-of-quality; profitability; inventory; quality; unscheduled changes.
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You may consider the methodology in our work
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Thank you everyone. My appreciation of the topic is broadened by your contributions.
Brian: Thanks for suggesting business performance indicators that are relevant in assessing depth-based enterprise development intervention. I had earlier thought of studying broad-based variables only.
Salisu: Thanks for providing a link to your paper. I have however not received it after two requests. Can you send a copy?
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