Visit Thailand

SME is contributing the most of our country wealth.. taxes,employement and money in flow.
Our research group are being awarded by the minister of science and technology to develop a model for entreprenuer focused on manufacturers in Malaysia.
As most of people know Thailand is one of the successful countries that producing SME manufacturers in Asia. We are in a process of writing paper work to visit SME area in Thailand and we hope our bos will agree with our plan.

Definition of SMEs in Malaysia.

Info from SME Info & Advisory Center.
Malaysia adopted a common definition of SMEs to facilitate identification of SMEs in the various sectors and subsectors. This has facilitated the Government to formulate effective development policies, support programmes as well as provision of technical and financial assistance. An enterprise is considered an SME in each of the respective sectors based on the Annual Sales Turnover or Number of Full-Time Employees as shown in the table below.
Sector Category Definition Manufacturing, manufacturing related services and agri-based industries 1. Micro Enterprises Sales Turnover less than RM 250,000 OR less than 5 employees 2. Small Enterprises Sales Turnover between RM 250,000 to less than RM 10 million OR employees between 5 – 50 3. Medium Enterprises Sales Turnover between RM 10 million to RM 25 million OR employees between 51 – 150 Services (including ICT) and primary agriculture 1. Micro Enterprises Sales Turnover less than RM 200,000 OR less than 5 employees 2. Small Enterprises Sales Turnover between RM 200,000 to less than RM 1 million OR employees between 5 - 19 3. Medium Enterprises Sales Turnover between RM 1 million to RM 5 million OR employees between 20 - 50

How to Do Qualitative Research

do it right at the first time!!!!

Tomorrow our group, ( and we are so generous to invite 15 other researchers) to join our workshop on qualitative research.
the purpose of this workshop is to make sure our group will find the right data with the proper tools...!!! and try to avoid GIGO (Garbage in Garbage Out)

the workshop mainly focused on how to do qualitative research. we are being advise to wear proper attire to do field research...! ready to rumble.....

Hopefully, we will gain alot of experience and knowledge tomorrow

Wait!!! what is qualitative research????

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_method : Qualitative research is one of the two major approaches to research methodology in social sciences. Qualitative research involves an in-depth understanding of human behavior and the reasons that govern human behavior. Unlike quantitative research, qualitative research relies on reasons behind various aspects of behavior. Simply put, it investigates the why and how of decision making, as compared to what, where, and when of quantitative research. Hence, the need is for smaller but focused samples rather than large random samples, which qualitative research categorizes data into patterns as the primary basis for organizing and reporting results.

Hello world!

We are a group of researchers who will be doing research on Small Medium Industries(SMI)Development Model. This blog will be a place for us to share news and activities so that it'll be somewhat documented beside our own filing system.

We also encourage other people involved in SMI and related research to be part of the community here.

Take care & have fun.