Entrepreneurship vs. Business Administration

When you hear someone say: 'I studied Business Administration', the want to assume a whole business mogul and savvy person background can easily follow; especially if the individual is dressed well and personal grooming is done to a perfect finish.

Why? Well why not ? How does a person go and study how to manage or handle business activities and operations and not own a business, know how to start one or even grow one? After all, if you can't practice what you've learned, what use is it to anyone else ?

So here's our drill. Studying how a business or a typical business model operates is one thing that can be done in theory. In reality, Businesses can differ as pearls on the seashore; hence there is really no one size fits all model. Although, there can be similarities - let's not lose that in the discussion- but each business creates it's own model as it is being built and continues to grow. Therefore, studying one model in a book can only possibly be a fireproof realistic approach if the model's assumptions and principles apply to the business under consideration. These principles and assumptions are what become underlying similarities that case scenarios can be analyzed from; because as is with every problem in science, the root cause is isolated either by deduction or addition.

Now what Business adminstration studies can guarantee is that the possible solutions to the problem are highlighted, either from prior case scenarios or thoughts of the consultant. What Entrepreneurs should be guaranteed however, is that the solutions proferred do not upturn the process flows and create multiple problems from solving one problem. The essence of bringing on board a business administrator/consultant is to assure the entrepreneur of fine tuning the internal run ins of their business, it's management, processes and functions; such that the entrepreneur can focus on planning the future and growth of the business without having to worry about business issues that can be resolved by specialists of the such processes.

At the end of the day, a business administrator and an Entrepreneur may or may not be the same person; the focus is to understand the functions of the two roles; and in very complex organisations, they are separate entities that function as executives and consultants respectively.