Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Sources, Analysis, and Evaluation

This report delves into the process of identifying entrepreneurial opportunities, starting with an introduction to the concept and the importance of opportunity identification in the modern business landscape. It explores various sources of new business ideas, including Drucker's seven sources of innovation and the STEEP analysis framework. The report then analyzes the role of the entrepreneur in recognizing opportunities and mitigating threats, considering personal factors and innovation types, including product and process innovation. A significant portion of the report focuses on explaining the choice of a specific entrepreneurial idea, a travel agency, and conducting market gap analysis, including customer segmentation based on demographics, psychographics, and behavioristics. The report also highlights the tangible and intangible benefits of the chosen product. The report provides information on customer segments and the tangible and intangible features of a travel agency, including market analysis, SWOT framework, and competitive environment.

IDENTIFYING ENTREPRENEURIAL
OPPORTUNITIES
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
LO1 Evaluating the possible sources of the new business idea (P1) ..............................................3
LO2 Explaining the choice of specific entrepreneur ideas and analysing the market gap (P2)......8
LO3 Using primary and secondary data to identify the market (P3, P4) ......................................12
P3 Present data needed to support gap analysis in the evaluation of a specific entrepreneurial
idea............................................................................................................................................12
P4 Interpret data appropriately to provide evidence of market potential..................................13
LO4 Evaluating the entrepreneur idea according to the market and competitors .........................13
P5 SWOT framework to collate evidence to support an objective assessment of a specific
entrepreneurial idea...................................................................................................................13
P 6 Competitive and market environments in which the idea will be launched to assess
potential viability......................................................................................................................15
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................16
References......................................................................................................................................17
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Introduction
The opportunity identification is emerging day by day in the world. Thus, Entrepreneurship
education and opportunities are becoming substantial competitive and thus are developing in the
evening competence in an appropriate way for developing the skills. It is also helping to improve
the ability for finding opportunities in the individuals. The chance of identification in the number
of Ideas generated and the innovative ideas in the market has helped to develop the nation. The
study has focused on the purposes of the entrepreneur opportunities and the requirement for
setting up new ideas.
LO1 Evaluating the possible sources of the new business idea (P1)
Sources of business ideas:
As the new organisation 7 sources of innovation opportunity, please tell by Peter Drucker can we
upgrade management Consultant for profitable business (Drucker, 2017). The business success
by seven sources of innovation can be valid through the below table:
Figure 1: Drucker’s seven sources for the business idea
(Source: Drucker, 2017)
The STEEP analysis is a tool which is used in the marketing in the organisation for external
factors. It is often conducted for the overview of the market trends about social, technological,
economic, environmental, legal and political.
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Social: The new organisation will focus on factors like behaviour demographics, religion,
Lifestyle, values and advertisement.
Technological: Technology is growing so in the aspect of STEEP analysis it will depend on the
innovation, communication, energy, transport, research and development of the products.
Economical: It will also focus on the international trade, taxes, savings, inflation, availability of
jobs and entrepreneurship (Bushnell, et al. 2015).
Political: The political factor will have a significant influence on the business through
Government and antitrust, financial Markets and trades.
Environmental: This will involve the ecosystem factors like water, wind, energy, pollution and
environmental regulations.
Legal: The legal practice will be related to political stability, monopolies, tax policies, Price
Regulation and trade union.
Figure 2: STEEP analysis
(Source: Bushnell, et al. 2015)
Role of the entrepreneur regarding opportunities and threats and translating the chance of
business ideas: The two most necessary risks about opportunities our decision and change.
Small business has to make adjustment and innovation to keep going and growing and reduce the
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balance of risk. The realistic aliaxis will act as an opportunity and will manage both sides of the
coin in the following business opportunity and risk categories:
Strategic: The entrepreneurs can be beneficial by strategic new opportunities based on the market
emerging Technology. However, the risk will be the reduction of probability in the materials and
the ability of the company (McDermott et al. 2018).
Financial: The risk and the opportunity can be erased for the starter before and after product
development. Accessing the threat value of investor funding and caring debt can effect the
employers and the employee of the organisation.
Operational: The opportunity can be maximized, and the threat can be unauthorised and
unethical which will break down in the routine process of the startup (Canavati, et al. 2016).
By considering the opportunities, the organisation can maintain the risk of failures and threat for
the organisation. The ability to pivot failure quickly can help to achieve success by balancing the
danger and increasing the opportunities.
Personal situation factors and knowledge: The four entrepreneur traits, innovation, risk-
propensity, internal locus of control, energy level and the appearance of the truth have increased
the multicultural perspective. The characters do not represent the comprehensive list and deals
with the new task and challenges for the new venture creation with independent cultural
influences. The personality is a critical factor for the nature of the process. The new venture will
be thwarted, and that is why the second group of personnel factors will depend on the personal
situation factors (Bertozzi, et al. 2016). The primary goal will be to access the impact of the
situational variables in the decision of individual advantages and disadvantages for the business
setup.
Types of innovation:
The scope of change: The innovation can be defined as the means by which the entrepreneur
creates new wealth-producing resources or endows existing resources with enhanced potential
for creating wealth. It has a massive success for the new business as it dinner with the innovation
in specific instruments. The change will help the organisation to gain a competitive advantage in
the Marketplace which will, therefore, increase the capacity to generate wealth. The innovation
strategy will also help the business to improve the profitability and build strategic and
operational robustness (Vahlne, and Johanson, 2017). This target for innovation will include
improved products developed and offered to the customers through the lean process. This will
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establish and implement renew management techniques by practising the best ideas and external
influences in the organisation.
Different types of innovation:
Innovation is growing in the world, and the organisations are adapting to the changes and
innovation daily. There are several different ways to categorise the innovation through product
and process.
Product innovation Process innovation
The product innovation will help the
organisation to develop a new product and
improve the performance of the old products.
However, the old product should be
Technology improved as the organisation is
unique in the market. To compete with the
competitors, your organisation will also
feature an existing product concerning the
advancement of Technology and customer
requirements.
This will help the organisation to facilitate,
skilled and use to produce, deliver and
support the product or services in the
organisation. It will include the changes the
equipment and Technology for improvement
in the tools and software solution for supply
chains and delivery system (Canavati et al.
2016).
The organisation should understand the incremental and the significant ban innovation which can
help the organisation to introduce features to the customers for improving the customer
satisfaction and efficiency in the organisation. The main advantage of the incremental
approach is to make the ability of correction in the midstream and is easier to abandon the ideas
from than big things. In Big Bang approach there is a high risk of the work to be wrong and
failure is one of the parts of the system that can cause fall of final plans and performances.
However, it is okay for short implementation at the lower cost.
The adoption of Schumpeter’s sources of innovation can help the organisation through 5 types
of change which are defined under the entrepreneurial act:
Product: It will introduce the new well to the customers with excellent quality (Bertozzi, et al.
2016).
Process: Experience in the branch will test the introduction of new goods.
Business model: This will help the organisation in the opening of a new market.
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Source of supply: The new resources of amount for raw materials and manufactured goods
should be identified and then applied in the market.
Mergers and divestments: Creation of monopoly position or the breaking up of monopoly
position will be a primary concern for the organisation.
It is essential for the entrepreneur to have a clear vision of the creativity and innovation. The
differences can help to explore the product or service idea in the business. The change can help
to understand the active application with new ideas that can create some value for the business
organisation. It is integrated with b invention. The introduction of new product line segment and
Technology through the method of production can help to improve the creativity ideas (Suddaby,
et al. 2015). Creativity is a brainstorming and mind blogging activity which is beyond the
imagination and can be developed for learning and comprehension the Exclusive perception. The
creativity will also help to get an idea and sift through the market for the particular product or
services in the business. The most promising business plan will be to understand the niche
market and the challenges by focusing on the market research. The role of the cluster and the
managers will help to overlook the date and the visibility for sharing knowledge and exchanging
which will help the entrepreneur to create a bright idea about the business.
Practising through creative techniques can help to improve the ideas for the new business.
Brainstorming adopted by Alex Osborn in 1953 can help to understand about the relaxed an
informal approach for problem-solving with lateral thinking. This type of technique can not only
help in the business development but also encourage the people and improve the creativity to
solve the problems in the business. Besides brainstorming, few more tools or techniques can help
to support the conflicts with a proposed solution through research in the new company (Collins,
2017). Forced convection is another exercise which brings ideas very differently in the needs or
interest of the entrepreneurs. This technique can produce absurd results, however, can be helpful
to give the teamwork with creativity and exploring through a different connection.
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Figure 3: Different types of techniques for generating new ideas
(Source: Collins, 2017)
LO2 Explaining the choice of specific entrepreneur ideas and analysing the
market gap (P2)
Identifying customers: As being the graduate with different innovative ideas of business, the
most profitable business is chosen as a travel agency.
Segmentation of the
market according to
the needs of the
customers.
Descriptions Male Female
Age 7-60 10-50
Demographic Occupation Children, Industrial,
traders, students,
service sectors,
businessman,
agriculture and
Children, Household
workers, students,
businesswoman,
traders and service
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traders. sectors.
Services Professionals and
non-professional.
Professionals and
non-professional.
Industry type Large and small. Large, small and tiny.
Income level High, Low and
medium.
High, Low and
medium.
Marital status Married and
unmarried.
Married and
unmarried.
Family life cycle Single and with
family.
Single and with
family.
Geographical
segment
Religion Different kind of
beliefs.
Different kind of
religions.
Location UK, US, India,
Europe and Canada.
The UK, US, India,
Europe and Canada.
Psychographic
segmentation
Innovators Mainly Businessman
and Industrialist.
Businesswoman.
Early adopters Influential people. Influential people.
Behavioristic
segmentation
Status of the user Regular and
occasional users.
Regular and
occasional users.
Occasion Personal and for
business
requirements.
Personal and for
business
requirements.
Benefits 5% off in the total
package.
8% off in the whole
package.
Tangible and intangible features and benefits of the product:
The product of the business can be classified into tangible and intangible with their unique
characteristics (Guerrero, et al. 2016). The travel agency has and invisible elements that have
helped to understand and evaluate the services and also satisfy the consumers with different
destinations and different benefits associated with the travel agencies. While focusing on the
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business ideas benefits of the travel agencies have now raised to 70% for the customers, and the
demand is growing. The benefits of the business are:
It saves time and money.
Travel assistance to the place wherever the customer wants to fly.
Travel recommendation.
Perks.
It solves the problems for finding new places and other facilities like hotels, flight details etc.
Understanding the industry environment:
The technical analysis is a told that has helped every organisation to assume the position relative
of the other companies that produce similar products or services (Ramoglou, and Tsang, 2016).
Understanding about the fact of forces in the overall industry has become an essential component
for the effective strategic planning. So, it is necessary for the business to analyse the small
business owners and threats and opportunities related to the travel agency in the UK market. It is
needed for knowing the small business owners and executive so that they can consider and do
planning in the worst victims. It is therefore done to avoid failure in the industry which directly
impacts the ability to succeed.
Analysing through Porter's five forces and say help to understand the market and all the
industries which are existed in the UK. It will help the organisation to increase the profitability
and attractiveness of the organisation through corporate strategies and strengthen the position of
the organisation in the industry. Michael E. Porter in 1979 derived the five forces. This model
will help the organisation to provide a new way to use the practical strategy for identifying,
analysing and managing the external factors.
Competitive rivalry: It is done men the similar size of companies operate in one market, and the
companies have same strategies (E. Dobbs, 2014). So to have a product differentiation the
organisation should follow other procedures so that the industry can grow by understanding the
high barriers.
The threat of new entrants: The competitive set from existing player in the market can be
identified, and the potential new entrants into the Marketplace will be the main attraction of the
organisation. The attractiveness in the long-term strategic manner will help the organisation to
proprietary knowledge. The high initial investment needed will assist in the high switching cost
for consumers and loyal consumer.
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The threat of substitute: The most common factor of the risk of replacement is the brand loyalty
and switching cost. The organisation have to focus on that to attract new customers with relative
prices as well as focus on trends and fads.
Bargaining power of buyers: The buyer will have the power so they can switch the organisation
smoothly. Thus the organisation have to focus on the competitors to retain the customers and
keep the comparative advantage (Guggenheim, 2016).
Bargaining power of suppliers: The raw materials will have to maintain the strong study
relationship with the suppliers which will help to set price and determine the availability
timelines of the customers.
Figure 4: Porter's five forces
(Source: Guggenheim, 2016)
The competitive analysis is a statement which has developed the strategy of the business about
the competitors. The purpose of the competitive analysis will help to determine the strength and
weakness of the competitors in the market and will provide the distinct advantage for the
barriers. It will also help the organisation to prevent the competition from entering the market,
and any weakness will be exploited within the product development cycle. The first step will be
to identify the current and potential competitors followed by group competitors.
The life cycle model is the phenomenon of the life sciences which will be delivered to the
organisation for maturity and eventually experiences in the product lines (Rothaermel, 2015).
The stages of the life cycle wheel develop from the introduction of the business according to the
research and development funds. After introduction stage, the growth stage will require a
significant amount of chemical so the organisation should focus on offerings from the
competitors in the industry. The first will be maturity speech where the life cycle count becomes
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noticeable flattered by indicating the slow growth of the business. The declaration stage is the
fourth stage that should be focused on the innovation and technological changes.
Figure 5: Industry life cycle
(Source: Koryak, et al. 2015)
LO3 Using primary and secondary data to identify the market (P3, P4)
P3 Present data needed to support gap analysis in the evaluation of a specific entrepreneurial
idea.
The primary and secondary research technique will be used to identify the new business idea
for a travel agency. The fundamental market research will help to find the objective and
gathering information to improve the product, services and functions of the organisation. The
secondary data will help to game the data from the scratch which will rely on the available
resources from multiple sources (Koryak, et al. 2015). The primary market research will be
through qualitative research methods as well as quantitative research methods. The secondary
market research will be done through newspapers, magazines, internet etc.
Plan for the market research:
Qualitative research Quantitative analysis
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