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While still touching virgin ground, a recurrent problem for many business developers is to define and delimitate their roles and responsibilities. We have heard many business developers complain about the fact that they are drowning in non-strategic fire fighting or have become problem solvers for the CEO – in effect operating as an advanced corporate secretariat. This happens because many businesses fail to properly define an organisational context for the business development function. Even the most talented, experienced and self-motivated employees have a need for well-defined tasks, roles and responsibilities as well as a suitable organising logic and governance structure to be able to deliver what is expected.
In essence, what is happening in many companies investing in business development is that they have not asked themselves: "if business development is the answer, what is the question?" Or alternatively: "is there a need for a business development function in our company?" And if yes; "what type of tasks would we like to perform?"
"Even the most talented, experienced and self-motivated employees have a need for well-defined tasks, roles and responsibilities as well as a suitable organising logic and governance structure to be able to deliver what is expected"
While still touching virgin ground, a recurrent problem for many business developers is to define and delimitate their roles and responsibilities. We have heard many business developers complain about the fact that they are drowning in non-strategic fire fighting or have become problem solvers for the CEO – in effect operating as an advanced corporate secretariat. This happens because many businesses fail to properly define an organisational context for the business development function. Even the most talented, experienced and self-motivated employees have a need for well-defined tasks, roles and responsibilities as well as a suitable organising logic and governance structure to be able to deliver what is expected.
When business developers are organised within a non-existing logic with no clear mandate or license to operate and with little guiding purpose from top management, both small and large scale business development units fail. They do not fail to deliver on promise, because no promise has been made. They do not fail to deliver impact in the organisation, because the organisation may not be aware of their existence. And they do not fail to engage in co-ordinating the strategy planning process, because top management never saw it as one of the real values of investing in business development.
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Pig industry sustains livelihoods of many families in Kenya. Pig rearing has been one of wellestablishedindustry
in Kenya following growing export markets and increasing number of health
conscious consumers. Pig production if efficiently managed has great potentials for increasing
protein supply in Kenya. Smallholder pig farms in Tharaka-Nithi County have been facing
varying and dismal profits. The main objective of this study will be to establish which
institutional arrangements and management factors affect the profit efficiency of small-holder
pig farmers in Tharaka-Nithi County. A multi-stage purposive sampling technique will be
adopted to collect cross sectional data of eighty (80) smallholder pig farmers in Maara
Constituency by the use of semi-structured interview schedules. The work will employ Data
Envelopment Analysis to come up with profit efficiency rankings among the farmers and
stochastic frontier profit function will be used to analyze the factors that affect profit efficiency.
The data will be processed using STATA and DEA Frontier packages. The findings could be
useful to the stakeholders of the pig industry sub sector to formulate policies pertaining to pig
enterprise inputs, marketing issues and financial products and also can establish benchmarks
which can be used as a package for enhancing and stabilizing profit efficiencies of smallholder
pig farmers which in turn could help improve the Kenya economy.
An Overview of Livestock Sub-sector in Kenya Perspectives, Opportunities and Innovations for Market Access for Market Access for Pastoral Producers Recent statistics point that the livestock sub-sector in Kenya accounts for approximately 10% of the National Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This is 30% of the agricultural GDP. It employs about 50% of the national agricultural workforce and about 90% of the ASAL workforce. 95% of ASAL household income comes from this sub-sector. This is despite the fact that the sector receives only 1 % of the total annual budget allocation. The livestock resource base is estimated at 60 million units comprising of 29 million indigenous and exotic chicken, 10 million beef cattle, 3 million dairy and dairy crosses, 9 million goats, 7 million sheep, 0.8 mi camels, 0.52 mi donkeys and 0.3 million pigs. (Strategy for Revitalizing Agriculture (SRA) 2003) Kenya is broadly self-sufficient in most livestock products but is a net importer of red meat mostly inform of on-the-hoof animals trekked across the porous boundaries of neighbouring countries- Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania. Livestock supply in Kenya results from a complex set of interactions between Kenya and its neighbours and the traditional Middle East market and their respective livestock populations, demand and market prices. Kenya is part of a regional market where livestock flow according to markets and price differentials in a liberalized system throughout the region as a whole and where Nairobi represents a focus of demand for the region Supply of red-meat from domestic cattle, shoats and camels falls short of demand, and is almost permanently augmented by a traditional livestock trade drawn in from neighbouring countries, especially Somalia, Tanzania, Sudan and Ethiopia in varying quantities according to demand, which maintains a supply/demand
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