Programs
The Enterprise Workshop program
- 4 month part-time program
- Run primarily outside business hours
- Two programs are offered each year – March to July & July to November
- ~65 hrs of face-to-face sessions plus ~15 hrs of interactive online sessions via the Workshop blogging site (for participants only).
The program begins with face-to-face sessions in which senior business people provide instruction and advice on the essential elements of contemporary business practice.
Subsequently, participants work as a member of a small project team under the guidance of a mentor to analyse and prepare marketing, operations and financial plans to either:
- improve the performance of an existing business; or
- evaluate the commercial potential and plan the introduction of a new business.
The program structure follows a well-established formula solidly based on practical ‘hands-on’ business experience. It is ‘real-world’ learning - not academic or theoretical!
Potential for future studies
The Workshop program is recognised as prior learning by the University of Adelaide Education Centre for Innovation & Commercialisation (ECIC). Workshop graduates may receive course credit (includes financial credit) for ECIC Masters degree programs in Entrepreneurship, or Project Management or Science & Commercialisation. ECIC has a campus in Sydney.
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The Enterprise Workshop was the best thing that happened to our business. We are now running a profitable and viable operation that we actually understand and control. The Workshop helped us to gain the focus we needed In the five years since we completed the Workshop, our turnover has more than tripled, our product lines have increased and we now export to the UK, USA, Canada and NZ. |
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