This article reports on the results of the identification of potential business opportunities for Non Governmental Organizations as an extra income to face the present funding challenge. Few research studies have been done on business opportunities as sources of income for NGO's. The aim of this study was to explore potential business opportunities as sources of income and it focused on the research of different possibilities. In this exploratory research study a qualitative approach was followed through interviews with business people and a focusgoup discussion to investigate potential business opportunities. Respondents were selected through purposive sampling techniques, eleven business men and a focusgroup consisting of five business men and six personnel of The Dutch Reformed Ministry or Caring. The eleven business men were recruited from the congregations of the Highveld Sinod. Data were collected through interviews with the business men and the focusgroup interview. Data were analysed according to themes. The following eight potential business opportunities were identified: government contracts, donations, improved marketing, fundraising strategies, buying of a business or shareholding in a business, partnerships, selling of therapeutic services and additional information and proposals. This offers business opportunities for NGO's to use as sources of income to sustain them and ensure that they can continue with their service delivery. The recommendation from the focus group was for more donations, an improved marketing strategy, the requirement or government contracts and selling of therapeutic services as potential opportunities. / Thesis (M.A. (MW))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.

This thesis focuses on the opportunities for Turkish companies in the Central and Eastern European countries namely Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovak Republic and Austria. The thesis aims to provide a sound grasp of the economic situation of each country with an insight to the macroeconomic indicators, foreign direct investment and foreign trade figures for the country in question. Each country section included a separate focus on the strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities that a Turkish investor who may wish to invest in the country in question may benefit from or confront with. In order to be able to do so, a detailed literature review has been conducted using mainly the update primary data available. The findings derived are summarized in the conclusion section of the thesis.

This master thesis report presents a prefeasibility analysis for a Saudi Company to enter the solar industry.Section one of this report illustrates the value chain analysis and opportunity identification and evaluation process applied to CSP technology. Section two offers an example of a potential business case in hybrid-powered commercial irrigation.

Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Entrepreneurship is important to the growth of economies across the world. The businesses surveyed in this report are affiliated to the Western Cape Business Opportunities Forum and were winners and finalists in the Businessperson of the Year Competition. The Western Cape Business Opportunities Forum (WECBOF) was created to facilitate business opportunities and exposure for black and coloured people in the Western Cape. The Cape Flats have played an important role in the economy of the Western Cape in part as a result of an abnormal internal migration over the last 50 years. This population movement was the result of coloured people being affected by specific policies passed by the government of the time, in particular the Group Areas Act (Republic of south Africa, 1950). Through an analysis of empirical data this research project endeavours to facilitate a better understanding of the way in which entrepreneurs operating in small and medium business enterprises affiliated to the Western Cape Business Opportunities Forum (WECBOF) achieved success or ended in failure. This analysis hopes to contribute to the body of knowledge relating to entrepreneurship development in South Africa and in particular within the Western Cape. This research project adopts a statistical analysis approach by means of a questionnaire to examine the issues that relate to the success factors of entrepreneurs affiliated to the Western Cape Business Opportunities Forum. The results are presented in tabular format.

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The aim of this thesis is to characterize the current export strategy of the Czech Republic and analyze whether Morocco has potential for Czech entrepreneurs and companies. The first part of the thesis describes theories of international trade. The second part is dedicated to explain the term trade policy and to describe the development of export policy of the Czech Republic. In the third part there are fundamental information about the Kingdom of Morocco as well as analysis of investment climate. The key part of the thesis analyzes business opportunities for Czech companies and entrepreneurs.

Research Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the opportunities that COVID-19 crisis has created for SMEs, in particular those involving digital technologies. I also describe and how SMEs can improve their functionality, efficiency accessibility and sales by using these technologies for internationalization. Research Questions:  What international business opportunities do digitized SME’s find in the covid-19 lockdown? Methodology: This study is followed by qualitative research and inductive approach. The data collection was done by semi-structured online interviews. Ten people running small and medium-sized businesses are the convenience sample of the study. Findings: For the advancement of several digital platforms, SMEs are continuing their international operations during COVID 19 pandemic. Many SMEs forced to go online during the pandemic, which also helps them become global players. By utilizing social media, online payment platforms, online e-commerce marketplaces, regular SMEs are now converting as digital businesses. By adopting digital technology, SMEs are now able to work smoother than before by having new functionality, efficiency and accessibility. SMEs that involved with the digital business from long ago are also experiencing noticeable growth during the pandemic. On the other hand, some SMEs are also suffering as their overall business operation get interrupted by the pandemic.   Research Limitations: The total number of interviewed respondents was only 10 due to the limitation of time scope and all of the interview done online. A larger study sample with physical interview are a possible direction of future work.

Trender är ett fenomen som innebär en tydlig och stabil förändring av något på marknaden. Inom sportens värld finns det en trend som varit speciellt uppmärksammad och aktuell de senaste åren. Sporten det handlar om är padel, vilket för många var ett okänt område för bara 5 år sedan, men som nu växt fram till att vara en uppskattad sport eller motionsform i Sverige. Förmågan att snappa upp och utnyttja en affärsmöjlighet eller en trend är en väsentlig egenskap för att kunna starta och driva en lönsam verksamhet och det är vanligt att det är just de som kallas entreprenörer som besitter denna förmåga. Syftet med denna studie är att skapa medvetenhet kring hur entreprenörer identifierat och värderat trenden padel och dess affärsmässiga potential. Studien har genomförts med en kvalitativ metod, varvid fem semistrukturerade intervjuer har genomförts med fem olika entreprenörer inom padelbranschen. Forskarna har använt sig av en abduktiv ansats, där teori och empiri har samlats in växelvis. Litteraturgenomgången presenterar teorier kring vad en trend och affärsmöjlighet är samt hur en trend kan urskiljas. Även teorier kring en entreprenörs personlighet samt hur man identifierar och värderar en trend behandlas. Resultatet av studien grundar sig i att tillvägagångssättet för entreprenörer som startat verksamhet inom padel skildrar sig från hur det vanligtvis går till vid ett företags framväxt. Där entreprenörens affärsnätverk, identifiering och värdering av affärsmöjligheten tillsammans med dennes personlighet har legat till grund för bedömningen av padelns affärsmässiga potential.

Last mile transportation is the most problematic phase of transportation needing additional research and effort. Longer waits or search times, lack of navigational directions and real-time information are some of the common problems associated with last mile transportation. Inefficient last mile transportation has an impact on the environment, fuel consumption, user satisfaction and business opportunities. Last mile problems exist in several transportation domains, such as: the landing of airplanes, docking of ships, parking of vehicles, attended home deliveries, etc. While there are dedicated inter-connected decision support systems available for ships and aircraft, similar systems are not widely utilized in parking or attended handover domains. Therefore, the scope of this thesis covers last mile transportation problems in parking and attended handover domains. One problem area for parking and attended handovers is due to lack of real-time information to the driver or consumer. The second problem area is dynamic scheduling where the handover vehicle must traverse additional distance to multiple handover locations due to lack of optimized routes. Similarly, during parking, lack of navigational directions to an empty parking space can lead to increased fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. Therefore, aim of this thesis is to design and develop decision support systems for last mile transportation problems by holistically addressing real time customer communication and dynamic scheduling problem areas. The problem areas discussed in this thesis consists of persistent issues even though they were widely discussed in the literature. In order to investigate the problem areas, microdata analysis approach was implemented in the thesis. The phases involved in Microdata analysis are: data collection, data processing, data storage, data analysis and decision-making. Other similar research domains, such as: computer science or statistics also involve phases such as data collection, processing, storage and analysis. These research domains also work in the fields of decision support systems or knowledge creation. However, knowledge creation or decision support systems is not a mandatory phase in these research domains, unlike Microdata analysis. Three papers are presented in this thesis, with two papers focusing on parking domains, while the third paper focuses on attended handover domains. The first paper identifies available smart parking tools, applications and discusses their uses and drawbacks in relation to open parking lots. The usage of cameras in identifying parking occupancy was recognized as one of the suitable tools in this paper. The second paper uses a thermal camera to collect the parking lot data, while deep learning methodologies were used to identify parking occupancy detection. Multiple deep learning networks were evaluated for identifying parking spaces and one method was considered suitable for acquiring real time parking occupancy. The acquired parking occupancy information can be communicated to the user to address real-time customer communication problems. However, the decision support system (DSS) to communicate parking occupancy information still needs to be developed. The third paper focuses on the attended handovers domain where a decision support system was reported which addresses real-time customer communication and dynamic scheduling problems holistically. Based on a survey, customers accepted the use of mobile devices for enabling a real-time information flow for improving customer satisfaction. A pilot test on vehicle routing was performed where the decision support system reduced the vehicle routing distance compared to the route taken by the driver. The three papers work in developing decision support systems for addressing major last mile transportation problems in parking and attended handover domains, thus improving customer satisfaction, and business opportunities, and reducing fuel costs, and pollution.

Organizations in the financial services industry are coming under increasing pressure. Regulatory compliance, operational inefficiencies, and the higher cost of capital are all forcing incumbents to adapt. As such, there are strong incentives for technological innovations that either reduce costs or generate new revenue. Distributed ledger technology (DLT), the foundation of bitcoin, is one of the latest innovations that appear to be the source of an imminent solution. An identified area with great potential for DLT is the post-trade market where market players, such as central securities depositories (CSDs), are heavily investing in pilot studies of how DLT may affect their business activities. In fact, the practical potential of adoption has been demonstrated by experiments and proof of concepts. However, while technological and regulatory aspects have been more frequently discussed in academia, the business dimension of the adoption of DLT within CSDs has received less attention. In this thesis, the business opportunities and challenges of the adoption of DLT within CSDs were explored, coupled with an analysis of the contextual factors affecting the rate of adoption. Further, this thesis compares the throughput performance between a centralized system and a private permissioned network. By performing a multiple-case study with a mixed-methodology approach, the researcher analyzed the literature, conducted a performance evaluation, and interviewed several industry experts. The conclusions suggest that the main business opportunities are the incorporation of digital assets and CSDs potential role as the gatekeeper of private networks. The main identified challenges related to adoption were interoperability, standardization, collaboration, scalability, defining applicable use cases, and governance and regulatory frameworks. Further, the performance evaluation suggests that the throughput performance of the centralized system outperforms the private permissioned network by an average of 6.5 times. The findings have both practical and academic implications. In academics, this thesis lays the foundation for further studies and provides new insights into the business dimensions of the adoption of DLT within CSDs. For practitioners, this thesis provides a basis for discussion and assessment of the entailed challenges related to the adoption of DLT within the post-trade market. / Organisationer inom finansbranschen utsätts för ökande press. Regelverksefterlevnad, operationell ineffektivitet och den högre kapitalkostnaden tvingar aktörer att anpassa sig. Som sådan finns det starka incitament för tekniska innovationer som antingen minskar kostnaderna eller genererar nya intäkter. Distribuerade liggare (DLT), grunden för bitcoin, är en av de senaste innovationerna som visar stor potential. Ett identifierat område med stor potential för DLT är post-trade-marknaden där marknadsaktörer, såsom centrala värdepappersförvarare (CSD), har investerat i pilotstudier av hur DLT kan påverka deras affärsverksamhet. Faktum är att den praktiska potentialen har demonstrerats genom experiment och bevis på koncept. Men även om tekniska och regulatoriska aspekter har diskuterats mer frekvent i den akademiska världen, har affärsdimensionen med införandet av DLT inom CSD:er fått mindre uppmärksamhet. I det här examensarbetet utforskades affärsmöjligheterna och utmaningarna med införandet av DLT inom CSDs, tillsammans med en analys av de marknadsmässiga faktorerna som påverkar spridningen av teknologin. Vidare jämför denna avhandling genomströmningsprestandan mellan ett centraliserat system och ett private permissioned nätverk. Genom att utföra en flerfallsstudie med en blandad metodologi analyserade forskaren litteraturen, genomförde en prestandautvärdering och intervjuade flera branschexperter. Slutsatserna tyder på att de huvudsakliga affärsmöjligheterna är integreringen av digitala tillgångar och CSD:s potentiella roll som gatekeeper för privata nätverk. De främsta identifierade utmaningarna i samband med införandet av DLT var interoperabilitet, standardisering, samarbete, skalbarhet, definition av tillämpliga användningsfall samt styrning och regelverk. Vidare antyder prestandautvärderingen att genomströmningsprestandan för det centraliserade systemet överträffar det private permissioned nätverket med i genomsnitt 6,5 gånger. Resultaten har både praktiska och akademiska implikationer. Inom akademin lägger denna avhandling grunden för fortsatta studier och ger nya insikter om affärsdimensionerna av införandet av DLT inom CSDs. För praktiker ger detta examensarbete ett underlag för diskussion och bedömning av de medförda utmaningarna relaterade till införandet av DLT inom post-trade-marknaden.