Iltizam

Entrepreneurship

EMP Direct

Entrepreneur Mentorship Programme (EMP) Direct conducted by ILTIZAM is a capacity building initiative, designed to assist micro and small entrepreneurs grow and expand their businesses to the next level. This dynamic initiative incorporates the Micro and Small Enterprise (MASE) programme tool which was developed to identify and address key business challenges that encompasses:-

  • Diagnostic Health Check – a simple questionnaire designed to identify challenges faced by micro and small entrepreneurs
  • Action Plan – A customised set of framework-based solution guide to address those challenges

The MASE Programme tool is a starting point and is designed to be simple and easy to understand for micro and small businesses. The tool uses hypothesis-driven questionnaire to identify root cause of challenges covering all nine (9) functional areas of an organisation.

Selected companies will be taken through a 6 months to 1 year engagement process. Using the results from the Diagnostic Tool, we harness Ekuinas’ resources and network to assist the chosen entrepreneurs.

We welcome applications among entrepreneurs interested to participate in our programme. Please email your application.

Our criteria is as follows:

  1. Bumiputera company
    Aligned with Ekuinas’ social objective of empowering the Bumiputera community in the form of products and employment opportunities.

  2. Broad meaningful impact
    A type of business that brings positive impact to the community such as products and employment opportunities.

  3. Sustainable business
    Strong growth potential with long term goals.

  4. Solvable business problems
    Business challenges that are solvable within a time frame that would enable Ekuinas to have maximum impact on its contribution.

  5. Passionate people
    Dedicated entrepreneurs with strong determination and commitment to sustain and improve the business.

Our approach to building entrepreneur capacity is founded on careful and patient guidance and meaningful operational improvements. The results of our efforts should last far beyond our engagement period, i.e. positively impact the selected entrepreneurs in the years to come.

For stories of our programme participants, please click here.