The retail revolution has been
described as an amazing opportunity to reinvent the way we do business.
Customers are said to be ready for innovation and excitement as they abandon
the old ways of shopping and look for new stimuli. The Queen Victoria Market is
full of entrepreneurs but are there barriers to their creativity?
What are the things that stop you
from being entrepreneurial? What are the things that would make your
entrepreneurial ideas easier to implement? What is standing in the way of you
achieving change? Is it finance? Is it knowledge? Is it red tape? What help do
you need?
Last week this website posted an
article about training courses for small business, and gaining knowledge is
certainly part of the puzzle. But, as one trader put it recently, sometimes it
is just reluctance to reveal new ideas that holds us back. Revealing your new
idea requires a degree of trust in the system and perhaps that trust needs some
work. A system that actively encourages entrepreneurial input and sets up
protective guidelines for the entrepreneur may need to be set up here at QVM.
Of course not every new idea needs
approval. The New York burger store that introduced spectacular milkshakes at twice
the normal price didn't have to go through an approval process, except perhaps
that they probably needed council help to manage the queues outside their store
each day. That would be a nice problem to have. (See separate article)
Let's push this conversation.
Success in an uncertain retail future will require big doses of entrepreneurial
flair. We do need to provide the right conditions for that entrepreneurial
flair to grow. What is holding you back?
