Business
Welcome to the Business-related Projects. This section combines various projects, all crucial for a successfully running business. Some projects are individual and some- in group.
01
Business Meetings (Educational)
I have held various business meetings with peers to discuss:
-> Risks and challenges which a business faces
-> Advantages & Disadvantages of aspects/solutions
-> Giving recommendations on issues
-> Discussion with others over taking a business decision
-> Giving and assessing others' pitches
-> Conducting interviews
-> Negotiating to achieve a certain company goal
02
Business Communication - Written
I have learned how to communicate not only in spoken, but also in written Business English by creating writings such as:
-> Direct Mailing
-> Memos
-> Press Releases
-> Management Summary
-> Emails: introducing company, asking for advice/information, expressing a complaint, replying to enquiry emails/complaints, describing graphs & trends.
03
Entrepreneurship
During an Erasmus, I worked in a group-project on Entrepreneurship. The result is an extensive Entrepreneurship plan for launching a company-producer of 100% sustainable shoes. The Plan is based on the Business Canvas Model and consists of:
-> Customer Segment
-> Customer Value Proposition
-> Key resources & Core activities
-> Partnerships
-> Revenue streams & Cost Structure
-> SWOT Analysis
04
Intercultural Awareness
While diving into the depths of Intercultural Awareness, I got to know the following crucial models which help me understand the others better and act accordingly:
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Hofstede Dimensions:
are one of the most famous mechanisms nowadays to analyse cultures' similarities and differences and understand how to act accordingly:
-> Power Distance
-> Uncertainty avoidance
-> Individualism - Collectivism
-> Masculinity - Femininity
-> Short-term - Long-term orientation
-> Restraint - Indulgence
Most important is the practice, and I have to say that I was definitely swimming through multi-cultural sea of unique people from all over the world:
By analysing my own, my country's and the Netherlands' cultural beliefs
Internship
Doing a Business Case Intercultural Analysis
Volunteering team meetings
In my classes
Regular student meet-ups
Webinars
Doing interview specifically intended at learning the cultural differences
05
Excel
During my BA study, I acquired Excel knowledge which was directly used in a business task. For example:
-> Building a model of expected income during a specific period of time
-> Determining an order quantity which will lead to lowest total costs for a business
-> Deciding if a person is eligible for something, based on more than 3 rules
-> Predicting future situations based on current conditions
-> Finding value from a table based on related characteristics
-> Doing the above, but with more freely, no matter of the position of the data
-> Finding out matches based on current data
-> Finding solutions to optimize problems
-> Extracting needed data from pivot tables
-> Presenting the complex data in a structured way via different charts