Knowledge to Enterprise. Enterprise to Prosperity.
MSME Compass is a practical knowledge and enterprise-development series created to support aspiring entrepreneurs, existing MSMEs, professionals, business families, students and anyone seeking to understand the journey of building and growing an enterprise in India.
The series has been developed around a simple but powerful belief:
Information is capital. Properly organised information becomes enterprise. Enterprise creates employment. Employment creates prosperity. Therefore, information is the entrepreneur’s first and most enduring investment.
MSME Compass brings together, in one structured platform, the information that an entrepreneur normally has to search for across numerous government portals, institutions, reports, publications and professional sources. It translates this information into simple, practical and actionable guidance—helping readers move from an idea to an enterprise, and from an enterprise towards growth, productivity, technology adoption and wider markets.
The strength of MSME Compass lies in its 360-degree approach to entrepreneurship. The series travels with the entrepreneur through different stages of the business journey: identifying viable business ideas, understanding government schemes and facilitators, organising management and finance, improving operations and productivity, exploring markets and sourcing opportunities, adopting digital technologies and artificial intelligence, and preparing the enterprise for sustainable growth.
It is not intended merely as a collection of information. It is designed as a working companion for the entrepreneur—a compass that helps the reader understand where to begin, where to go, whom to approach, what to prepare and what to do next.
The content has been organised into individual volumes so that readers can access the subject most relevant to their immediate requirement while, together, the volumes form an integrated knowledge resource for the MSME ecosystem.
Explore the MSME Compass Volumes
Below you will find details of each volume of MSME Compass, including its purpose, chapters and major subjects covered. Each volume addresses a distinct area of the entrepreneurial journey while remaining connected to the larger MSME Compass framework.
You may explore the volumes individually according to your present business requirement or follow them together as a progressive journey—from dream to enterprise, enterprise to growth, and growth to enduring prosperity.
MSME Compass
Turning Information into Enterprise. Enterprise into Employment. Employment into Prosperity.
Khazi Altaf Hussain
Managing Editor, The SME Times
