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Business Knowledge Representation

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Have you ever thought about how your mind stores and organizes all the things you know?

Most people do not and, frankly, most people care less to think about this issue. However, there are reasons why you and other business owners have to worry much about this issue for the sake of your business.

Cognitive science seeks to understand and develop a model of how the human mind stores and processes information. The field of artificial intelligence (AI) attempts to represent knowledge in a way that can be processed by computers and human intelligence that can be replicated. Both courses of study are of similar nature. AI has adopted the theories of cognitive science has attempted to process and draw inferences from the information by using techniques such as expert systems, genetic algorithms, frames and semantic networks. The fundamental challenge is to develop a knowledge representation.

So what is the relationship between cognitive science, AI, and your business? These fields provide an important parallel to his business, the importance of the representation of knowledge within your business.

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The Vision Is In The Mind, Not The Eyes

If we saw with the mind, heart, we would like those people who restore the dreams of others.

Why should you read this article? Would you happen to be no longer see the forest for the trees to focus on? Have you felt that every day you from seeing the greatness of life and its purpose? This article is for you.

Recently it was my birthday and I had the best gift I could receive. I did a volunteer with a group of people who have lost their sight as adults. Reflect on their business, how to start a business that allowed them to survive and add value to themselves, their families and Guatemala. What a lesson in entrepreneurship gave me!

Most of them are new businesses that provide massage therapy or reflexology.

When we reflect on what really sold on the essence of their service offerings, the depth of his responses struck me.

You know what they said they sold? One person told me “I sell peace.” Another said “I sell love.” Others smiled and told me “I sell someone the opportunity to know God.”

I closed the workshop believing and telling them they had given me the greatest lesson, because the vision is in the mind, heart, and not the eyes.

What actually do you do in your life? How does your work? What actually sells his company YO, S.A? Read the rest of this entry »

Business or Enterprise?

One of the most important decisions you make when creating a company is deciding if what you want is to have a business or own a business. Studies on entrepreneurship have made certain that there are two main types of entrepreneur: you want to run a business and you want to start a business.

In business, the entrepreneur is the cornerstone. Is the typical situation of liberal professional who can have a business of any size but whose production capacity is limited by the creator.

In a company, the / the entrepreneur creates a separate structure of person that acquires its own personality. The extreme case is that of the franchise: creating a business concept and then this concept is sold to the “use” other entrepreneurs.

This distinction will determine input and raise production at the company. In the case of business, production capacity is finite, as most of what we hold the “physical” entrepreneur or entrepreneurial team. There will therefore be managed with great care (for obvious reasons of personal health).

In the case of the company, the production is a more a “delegate.” We must therefore avoid falling into the trap of making the company’s growth to the personal capacity of the entrepreneurial team. This must be dedicated to run the business and develop it, not “produce” how well do so. Read the rest of this entry »

Entrepreneur Dilemma

Normally, most entrepreneurs are not usually concerned with the production or supply of services covered by your business. Well, after all, is usually what they have been doing in recent years and what they really enjoy doing. Even if it is a new activity will always be possible to learn fast enough to do a good job.

This is usually a typical approach in those / these entrepreneurs / is going to leave her job to work on their own.

However, this position may lead to an impasse in the new venture. Initially, the entrepreneur-or equipment-made entrepreneurs all company activities including sales, production, management, etc. As the business grows you begin to delegate tasks less “vital”, usually starting with the accounting activity that almost any entrepreneur want to perform.

The business is growing and we must hire more staff: a secretary, an assistant, even a salesman. But the entrepreneurial / or still stuck in production (especially if the business is in services). After a while you get what might be called “death by stagnation.” The company is not necessarily close, in fact may work well. It happens that can not grow.

All employees are full of work, the entrepreneurs as well. We can not accept more orders and, if accepted, the quality begins to deteriorate. And so it accumulates a number of problems of various kinds which are accepted as normal a going … until it disappears from the business. Read the rest of this entry »