{"id":291,"date":"2026-05-04T02:55:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nmartportfolio2\/?p=291"},"modified":"2026-05-04T02:55:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:55:43","slug":"components-of-a-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nmartportfolio2\/2026\/05\/04\/components-of-a-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Components of a Business"},"content":{"rendered":"According to the reading \u201cUnderstanding the components of a business\u201d, a business is made of<br \/>lots of different working parts that work together to improve a company\u2019s efficiency. Some of<br \/>the important working parts are management, marketing, information technology, finance, and<br \/>human resources. All of these working parts of a business play an important role to the success<br \/>of the company.<br \/>Management is at the top of the organization; they are responsible for making sure the<br \/>business stays successful. They do this by setting goals, making decisions, and by directing all of<br \/>the other components. Marketing is important because it helps figure out what the customer<br \/>wants and tries to fulfill their wants and needs. Finance helps manage and organize the<br \/>budgeting, and outing, and financial planning. Human resources is important because it helps<br \/>support employees and makes sure they are getting treated fair, they do this by focusing on<br \/>training, hiring, and compliance.<br \/>(IT) Information Technology is important because it is connected to all of the other<br \/>components. IT helps support all of the other components by managing different kinds of data<br \/>and technology. Managing this allows the company to operate as efficiently as possible. IT is<br \/>also especially important because technology is such a nig part of our everyday lives.<br \/>Some roles and responsibility that are related to IT are managing hardware and software,<br \/>managing networks, protecting data, supporting users, and making sure the technology systems<br \/>are running smoothly.<br \/>The reading talks about how IT should be organized based on what your business needs. For<br \/>example, smaller businesses will need a smaller team that is more closely knit. While larger<br \/>companies will need a large team that is divided into many different areas to be able to work<br \/>efficiently. IT needs can strongly change based on what needs each company has.<br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the reading \u201cUnderstanding the components of a business\u201d, a business is made oflots of different working parts that work together to improve a company\u2019s efficiency. Some ofthe important working parts are management, marketing, information technology, finance, andhuman resources. All of these working parts of a business play an important role to the successof&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nmartportfolio2\/2026\/05\/04\/components-of-a-business\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":32026,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nmartportfolio2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nmartportfolio2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nmartportfolio2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nmartportfolio2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32026"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nmartportfolio2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nmartportfolio2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nmartportfolio2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nmartportfolio2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nmartportfolio2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nmartportfolio2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}