Optometry Business Opportunity Recognition to Identify New Viable Ideas and Constantly Improve Products and Services

Dr. Gilbert Nacouzi

Optometry Business Opportunity Recognition to Identify New Viable Ideas and Constantly Improve Products and Services

Optometry Business Opportunity Recognition to Identify New Viable Ideas and Constantly Improve Products and Services

A business or entrepreneurial opportunity is a favorable circumstance that gives an entrepreneur the potential to advance in offering value or eliminating a constraint and creating profit. The business opportunity appears when a person is able to carry out a long-held desire. Entrepreneurs have been successful in today’s economy in locating business opportunities and fostering economic expansion. Opportunities in every industry and the eye care industry have been discovered by resolving issues, altering patterns, and advancing technology. The daily entrepreneur’s challenge is to spot potential opportunities in order to turn a profit and stay relevant. An entrepreneur needs to have the ability to spot opportunities. The process of identifying opportunities that yield profit motivates people and companies to create new goods and abilities while enhancing those that presently exist.

Entrepreneurs with strong opportunity recognition abilities can develop new goods that meet the needs of the current market through a thorough process that includes generating ideas, identifying opportunities, developing opportunities, evaluating opportunities, building the right team, and iteratively filtering processes that improve outcomes and go hand in hand with the business’s profit formula. Many people rely solely on guts when it comes to deciding on a business opportunity. In 2010, Daniel Isenberg, president of Entrepreneurship Policy Advisors and adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and Babson as well as the author of the book, Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value created a test that evaluates if you are an entrepreneur. The test got famous even President Obama himself has talked about it. The test consists of around 20 yes/no questions that you can take in 2 minutes.

According to Isenberg, there is a gut-level “fit” for people who are potential entrepreneurs. A fact that he has discovered in his own years as an entrepreneur and an entrepreneurship professor. People are strongly internally motivated to start their own businesses. However, the path to entrepreneurship is frequently pictured as a straight line: give up your job and launch your firm. Many think it must be all or nothing to be an entrepreneur. Like many other things in life, starting a business can be more difficult and unplanned. You may have a deliberate strategy but as you progress and things emerge you should be ready to build upon another strategy. That is what Daphne Demetry, an assistant professor in Strategy & Organization at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University discovered after speaking with 63 culinary entrepreneurs who had opened underground eateries and accidently were able to turn their hobby into startups. For those chefs what started as a side hustle and part-time work transitioned into a startup and full-time restaurateurs.

These part-time chefs have the chance to gradually transition into the desired roles of full-time chef and businessperson thanks to their many years of part-time entrepreneurship. A loyal following of customers and prospective investment proposals helped them transition when they felt it was the proper time. Once they made the switch to a full-time business, their self-perceptions altered to what they may have anticipated from the beginning; they no longer identified themselves as amateurs or side-hustlers but rather as entrepreneurs.