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MGMT 102 Business 2: Business Planning and Professional Development: Business 2 Tool Kit

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Questions: jennifer.freer@rit.edu

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Basic Tools Need for Business 2 Project

Introduction to a Few Secondary Data Sources

Information has value. Monetary value. Strategic value.

Knowing about your company, product, industry and customers will help justify strategic choices.

RIT Libraries subscribes to some information products to help current students practice searching for and working with premium information. Below are some of the products that can help with finding premium business information to help make informed decisions and recommendations. Some demographics are not covered at all in market research. When looking for demographics related to disabilities try non-profit and advocacy agencies or government data.

Search Strategy

The overarching themes:

-industry
-specific market of product or service (if available)
-demographics
-news

Limitations

Not all industries, markets and demographics are represented in databases so you work with what you can get and be flexible in adapting what is available. For example: Can't find demographics for people who use the public bus system in Rochester? Find out what demographics you can get for Rochester and surrounding areas. See if you can find national information on public bus systems for public transportation. The look at what you have, think about what it tells you and do some analysis around your specific research goal.

Industry (the big picture aka a macro view)


Market & Demographics (a little more narrow view around who might buy or use a product)


 

News and Trade Magazines (a very, very narrow view about a product, service, trend, customer)

News Access

Use these library access points to stay on top of the news.
That includes general news, politics, culture, sports, and more!

Does the library offer direct electronic access to major newspapers and magazines listed here?

We do not. Instead we offer secondary access through ProQuest and EBSCO through the links above. The articles represent the majority, but not all, of the articles published in the print versions of the publications. Most include text only with occasional images. For full and unrestricted access to any publication look at subscribing directly. Most of these publications offer student discounts. That said library access does provide a majority of the content.

For MGMT 102 Also in Addition to MGMT 103

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