Benefits to Mentor Organisation

As a Mentor Organisation to a Virtual Enterprise, you will have:

• access to a pool of potential employees, who have been trained to work with your products or services; they know your company and how it operates; they are familiar with the way you operate; they have been inducted into your business culture (a good cost saving in all!)
• access to a pool of potential employees, who have been trained in the areas vital to the success of your business : information technology, customer relations, and teamwork; they will also have developed their key competencies (the skills and abilities that underpin all work activities) in the Virtual Enterprise. You will have a unique opportunity to watch them at work long before you need new staff
• advertising and promotion of your products or services in Hong Kong and throughout affiliated networks in Australia, Europe, Canada, the US and Asia; also occuring at the local level by the participants in their life outside the Virtual Enterprise, at annual trade fairs in Hong Kong and overseas if your Virtual Enterprise is participarting
• access to market research undertaken by the members of the Virtual Enterprise; research that takes place in Hong Kong or globally in order to assess the potential of new markets or a new product/service
• access to other Mentor Organisations who may represent new clients or new networks for your product or service
• tests of new systems or procedures in a simulated environment before transferring them to your workplace
• a subscription to HKNVE's newsletter "in-Business"; information about training courses or programs run by the institution/organisation hosting the Virtual Enterprise
• publicity to the community and the Government about your support for education and training.

A Virtual Enterprise could be a vital part of your HR program. It can be used to up-skill people moving into new sections of the business, in adapting to new computing packages, systems or procedures, or in changing the culture of the organisation

VE students have many chances to practise business skills in various aspects of a business operation.

As a Mentor Organisation, you are making significant contributions to the education reform in Hong Kong.