Course
Descriptions:
EPT
101
Introduction
to
Entrepreneurship
An
introductory
course for
students other
than
entrepreneurship
majors. The
course, which
is designed
around the
business plan,
examines how
to formulate
business
ideas, select
a location,
select a legal
form of
organization,
locate
financing
sources,
assess the
market,
develop a
human resource
management
system, and
establish
budgets for
control.
Introduction
to the small
business
environment
with emphasis
on developing
and
implementing a
business
concept.
Topics may
include:
initial
problems in
starting a
business,
financial and
administrative
controls,
legal and
governmental
control,
preparing a
business plan,
securing
financing and
operating a
small
business.
EPT105
Business
Planning
Identification
of
considerations
in the
decision
making process
as they apply
to the small
business
owner. Topics
include:
business and
marketing plan
analysis,
securing
financing,
production,
pricing and
capital
investments.
In the end you
will have a
workable
business plan
that's far
more than just
a written
document. You
will
understand the
changes in
property,
plant,
equipment,
management,
technology,
financial
structure, and
capital
resources
needed to
reach our
targets.
Everyone
responsible
for executing
the business
plan will know
what's
expected of
him or her and
when it's due.
You will
establish
milestones
where we need
coordination
between
different
departments to
accomplish a
particular
goal. You will
be able to see
progress
toward those
intermediate
goals-definite,
quantified
progress,
reported
regularly
EPT107
Small
Business
Management
This
course
delivers a
concise,
practical plan
for success
centered
around the
business
plan--the
heart of small
business
management. It
follows
through with
solid
techniques for
successfully
running a
small
business. The
emphasis on
the business
plan as a
major theme
throughout the
course. A good
strategy
immediately
distinguishes
your business
from those of
your
competitors,
and gives your
customers a
solid reason
for choosing
to do business
with you.
A good
strategy
should be
developed
after
considering
the market,
customer
needs, the
competition,
and your
business's
relative
strengths and
weaknesses.
While the
strengths of
large,
established
competitors
may seem
overwhelming -
such as deep
financial
resources and
an established
customer base
- any new firm
has built-in
advantages
too, such as
more
flexibility
and the
knowledge of
how existing
firms have
already
positioned
themselves in
the
marketplace.
EPT
250
Special Topics
in Small
Business
Management
The
emerging
theory of
complex
systems
research has
resulted in a
growing
movement to
reinvigorate
management.
Theory,
research,
practice, and
education can
all benefit by
adopting a
more dynamic,
systemic,
cognitive, and
holistic
approach to
the management
process. As
interest in
the study of
complex
systems has
grown, a new
vocabulary is
emerging to
describe
discoveries
about
wide-ranging
and
fundamental
phenomena.
Complexity
theory
research has
allowed for
new insights
into many
phenomena and
for the
development of
new manners of
discussing
issues
regarding
management and
organizations.
A shared
language based
on the
insights of
complexity can
have an
important role
in a
management
context. The
use of
complexity
theory
metaphors can
change the way
managers think
about the
problems they
face. Instead
of competing
in a game or a
war, managers
of a
complexity
thinking
enterprise are
trying to find
their way on
an ever
changing, ever
turbulent
landscape.
Such a
conception of
their
organizations'
basic task
can, in turn,
change the
day-to-day
decisions made
by
management.
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