The prosperity of our economy is primarily due to the growth and success of businesses. A business is a commercial or industrial enterprise that is designed to provide goods, services, or both to consumers and other businesses. Creating and starting a business is a very difficult and time-consuming affair, which has many planning and research phases. Each phase has a different role in starting a business and each phase is crucial to the businesses survival. One of the phases is organizing the business operations. This phase has three components, which include, organizational structure, proposed location, and proposed pricing structure.
The first component of the business operations phase is organizational structure. Organizational structure involves the people that will make I-Educator a thriving business from top to bottom. To complete this aspect I will first off need a CEO, who will manage and be in charge of all departments, all major descisions, and will be in charge of setting a strategy and vision for the company. I feel that I would make a good CEO because as a leader, I have many great qualities that allow me to excel and achieve anything. I am a diligent, determined, industrious, and focused leader. I know that anything that comes my way will get done with 100% effort, on time and to the best of my ability. I have also had many experiences that have opened my eyes to the world of business, communications, and leadership. After finding the CEO, I will need to then organize the company into different divisions and departments that will start and then maintain my business. The divisions will be website design and function, education, and hiring. Each division will have a head manager who will report only to me. The first division, website design and function will obviously control the design, layout, function, and look of my website. Aside from the head manager, I will need a couple of computer technicians and website designers. The next division, education, will be more complicated. Aside from the head manager, this division will have a lot of mini departments, each for a different subject. In each department there will be a head and then a couple of teachers who can gather information on their subject and then upload it onto their respective tab of the website. As well, this division consists of the teachers who will act as the online tutors. The last division, hiring, is responsible for finding the personel that I will need to run my business. They will need to check backgrounds and interview each potential teacher before the higher them. This division will again have a head manager as well as a couple of highering technicians. I also will need an office where everyone can have their space to do what they need to do, while being watched by the managers and me.
The second component of the business operations phase is proposed location. This component is very simply, where the business will be located. I-Educator is a business and tool that can be used my any person anywhere in the world. However, we cannot just open up and be a world-wide business. For this reason we are going to start small. I want to open up, at first, just to Long Island . I then, as I-Educator gains some support and prominence, want to open up to New York
The third component of the business operations phase is proposed pricing structure. To access I-Educator you will need an account and a password. I will first offer a 14-day free trial, where these future clients can use every aspect of my business in order to get familiar and get a feel for my software. Then, if they want to continue, they will have to enter a credit card number and buy the software which will be $49.99 for six months. This package will include access to the subject tabs, the video chats with tutors, and the online whiteboard. As a way to gain more support and public knowledge I will give principals free access to my website. This will give them a chance to get familiar with my site and then show it to colleagues and spread its name and benefits.
You say that you feel like you would be a great CEO, but then you later say "after finding a CEO", so you need to decide if you want to, or if you can find someone with experience in that field to run your business. You can have someone else as a CEO, and you can hold the title of President. CEO runs the company mostly overall and is in it to make as much profit for you and your business, while as President you can oversee the daily operation and routine whilst still holding power and ownership.
ReplyDeleteAs for the online software try looking into what colleges use, like Moodle and WebCT as for online teaching and online whiteboard classrooms etc. that way they will also become familiar in these programs by the time they hit college and thus be more successful and yield higher success rates which means better grades/ratings for you, which in return gets you that creditability that all business' hunger for.
Also every state requires the teachers to be certified to their requirements, so a New York teacher can not teach in Pennsylvania unless they have passed all of that state's certification exams. So as you expand outward from New York you would have to make sure the teachers are properly certified for the students which they are assigned.
Maybe you can have a regional table like CraigsList does, where if you're a student accessing your website for the first time there'll be different regional/state links which will connect them to the specific teachers that can do the most good.
(New York and Pennsylvania, New Jersey etc. all have different curriculum's and standards)