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[B1045]Business Knowledge For It

by Brad Semp, Bra

Most people have not and quite frankly the majority of people could care less to think about this question. However, there are reasons why you and other business owners should care very much about this question for your business' sake.

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 manner that can be processed by computers and from which human-like intelligence can be replicated. Both fields of study are similar in nature. AI has taken cognitive science theories attempted to process and draw inferences from the information through the use of techniques such as expert systems, genetic algorithms, frames, and semantic nets. The underlying challenge is to develop a knowledge representation.

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

As a business owner, the challenge for you is to develop a business knowledge representation. A business knowledge representation can be described as a set of pictures, words, symbols, or other shareable documentation that clearly describes your business systems and enables you to analyze and make decisions to improve your revenue and profitability.

How do you represent your business knowledge and processes?

The truth is that very few businesses have documented processes. Even those that have documented processes rarely if ever use them as part of their daily work routine. Most businesses essentially do not have a business knowledge representation.

The importance of documenting your business knowledge, specifically your business processes and systems should not be underestimated. The simple act of forcing yourself to document your business systems will lead to business improvement ideas and initiatives that you may not have otherwise identified. Writing information down is critical toward deepening your understanding (second best to teaching others). After your processes are documented, you can embark upon process improvement and other initiatives to streamline your processes, increase automation (reduce time-to-market), reduce overall work time, and ultimately increase your profits.

The big question that most business owners face is how should one document business knowledge? One often used technique is business process mapping. Business process mapping provides a business owner with the means to document business systems and essentially create a business knowledge representation. From these process maps, many related analysis techniques can be applied to increase business revenue and profits.

Odds are that seven out of ten have entertained the idea of starting their own online home business but either they do not know how to start one or if they do they do not know how to make it profitable.

The first steps in building a business is to begin by setting the necessary home business priorities in order and begin the action steps necessary to implement a solid business mission statement action plan.

First things first, we need to state our intentions for building this business, what is our vision? What are the resources we will need to implement our business plan and decide who will be included in our target market?

We will need to know is there money in that market. We also need to know whether that market has demonstrated a willingness to purchase similar products and services like ours in the recent past.

By organizing and implementing these original planning priorities, we are leveraging our time and efforts to maximize our overall effectiveness to minimize online business mistakes. Leveraging your business' daily business affairs from budget optimization, business market planning, home business time management and online business support services.

There is a large body of basic business knowledge in building our business and should include home business essentials such as business knowledge and training, funding, budgeting, administration, communications, marketing/advertising, sales forecasting, cash flow management, asset building & management, product development, security & bonding, business development online & off-line, supervision, health, customer service, community goodwill and other business set up issues that we may have overlooked in preparing this list for you.

The foregoing list of business essentials is not critically important in all businesses or for them to entertain all issues. This list was generated to give you a small capsule of business issues that you may include or not include in building your business.

All businesses are not the same. Here is an example, if your business is all about transporting money from point `a' to point 'b' you would certainly want to be bonded in case of a theft or other catastrophes.

But if you are a swimming instructor, being bonded will not be a serious consideration. This is a prime time to address these kinds of contingencies.

In the beginning stages of setting up a business and setting its foundation is the time to consider many of the options above that may become business policy. Many of these options will not become policies but many of them will become routine.

Basic business knowledge will provide the content that will be needed in building online web pages and other advertising/marketing. If content is king, then traffic is queen for sure.

Are you a skilled communicator? Here is a little tip. The ones that communicate best are the ones that make more money in business. Are you good at getting your point across to your audience?

If you are not skilled in communications, your business will surely suffer. Business is a people business and communication is the way business gets its messages to their market.

Business correspondence, advertising and marketing pieces, web site content and verbal communication along with your body language are the heart of your business and it all stems from your knowledge or lack of it. Business communication must put your audience at ease and consider the feelings of the other party.

Speaking of getting your message across, when you communicate well, it has a tendency to draw your market into you; it makes your market more responsive. It makes you more attractive and makes them want to associate with you.

That is what I call traction action. When you become well skilled at business communication it is like standing on a heavy traveled road handing out free money, driving traffic to you.

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