what is a business?
A business is a collection of people gathered into separate but, symbiotic, departments or divisions that will utilise staff, equipment, workstations, policies, procedures, record keeping, marketing, creative accounting, chicanery, carpetbagging, hypocrisy and pure, unadulterated, bullshit to achieve a series of common goals;
- Make a profit and survive the next financial year whilst remaining solvent.
- Reduce overheads.
- Maintain and increase the client base.
- Expand the business’ interests and portfolio.
- Make someone, somewhere, (not you) as wealthy as possible.
What kind of business are you working for? Whatever industry or service you are employed by, they can generally be categorised into basic types.
Small to medium enterprises (SME’s) will employ anywhere up to 200 to 250 people.
Large businesses will employ upwards of 250 people in their workforce.
Corporations are a group of businesses, either SME or Large, that can function independently, but have combined their efforts in a cooperative relationship to offer cost effective, single source, multiple solutions to the customer and achieve company growth.
(Interestingly, this is not dissimilar to a slime mould. A form of Protista that can function as individual, single-cell organisms, or group together for survival and reproductive purposes.)
Whatever the business type, they will all have a similar administrative and hierarchical management structure. Consisting of the workforce, management and administrative tiers and, executive.
Most businesses, large and small, exist on a catastrophe curve. Market forces, public opinion, mismanagement and corrupt dealings can all serve to undermine a company’s brand. Corporations may survive by being too big to kill but can still be short lived and are not without their own vulnerabilities.
For instance: Corporations with a “wooden dollars” approach to fiscal stability, may find interdepartmental competition an issue, with departments often attempting to succeed at the cost of others by charging extortionate mark-ups on internal processes. Undermining rival divisions to bulk up their own financial status. These departments end up hating each other’s guts.
Whee! What fun!
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