I’ve come across an interesting magazine if you are interested in doing business in Philippine, or about running a small or medium Entreprise. “SME Insight is the only Philippine magazine to focus primarily on small and medium enterprises. After all, the SME sector is responsible for over ninety percent of business activities in the country today! SME Insight is also the first magazine designed primarily for the informational needs of managers and owners of small and medium enterprises.”
I’m not sure about the printed magazine, but the blog is interesting because of it’s dual approach: it got interesting information about business environment in the Asean region and also general thoughts, ideas and articles on running a Small Business in general.
I had a look at the articles about Small Businesses, and I have to say that they are well targeted and easy to understand. Let’s take a look at a recent article: Common mistakes small businesses make – it’s short and well thought. The first point they approach is “Doing it all alone.” I think this is the most common pitfall in all small business start-ups! They have another good article called: “Simplifying Just In Time” – it talks about the Just In Time concept implemented first by Toyota: “The original practice of JIT involves a demand-pull system, which means customer orders prompt production so the company does not produce inventories for stock. Raw materials arrive at the factory floor just in time for production. Needless to say, JIT involves minimal to virtually zero inventories.” I didn’t know about this, and it seems there is more on the subject in the printed magazine.
Talking about doing business in the Asean region, there are plenty of articles about regional meetings, SAAS in India.
Here it is again: SME Insight from Philippine
Thanks for posting this, good information.