Support from stakeholders needed to develop entrepreneurs — Mussen
MIRI: Sarawak government needs total support from various stakeholders to empower entrepreneurs to enhance their business capacity to higher level.
In fact, it is stressed in the National Entrepreneurship Policy (DKN2030) that all agencies and stakeholders collaborate among each other to build an integrated entrepreneurship ecosystem in the country, Assistant Minister of International Trade and Industry, Industrial Terminal and Entrepreneur Development Datuk Malcolm Mussen Lamoh pointed out.
Speaking when officiating at Insken Business Outreach 2020: Increasing Business Scale in Sarawak at Pullman Hotel here yesterday, he said: “I believe the National Entrepreneurship Institute (Insken) Business Outreach (IBO) Programme not only enhances the existing good cooperation between Insken and state governments but also encourages developing and empowering entrepreneurs through total support from various parties and cannot be done by working in silo.”
Mussen described the Insken Business Outreach programme as an initiative to provide information on entrepreneurship training offered by Insken as well as other entrepreneurship agencies.
For the programme in Miri, he said the theme was ‘Strategy to Boost Selling Through Managing Customers Data’.
“I hope this programme would be able to educate entrepreneurs on the importance of managing customer data.
“A systematic customer data management is important in preparing entrepreneurs to face the Industrial Revolution 4.0.”
Also present were Ministry of Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives (Entrepreneurial
Ecosystem Development Division) senior director Datuk Zailani Hashim and Insken chief executive officer Muhd Firdaus Azharuddin.
Some 300 entrepreneurs from different industries attended the one-day programme.
The activities for the programme, among others, were Psychometric Test (MyNept), Mind Setting, Ask the Expert and Biz Clinic.