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Sunday, April 10, 2016

By James Butler


Business developers prepare plans for different organizations. A planner has to write down the plan purposefully. However, in all the cases a professional person may not be a business planner. Therefore, they need to know the business planning process effectively. By knowing these techniques, one can become more efficient in performing this important assignment.

It requires that the planner or manager lists the possible clients and how to get in touch with them; the employees are also classified according to their responsibilities and determine the costs required at every stage, organize a marketing plan including the promotion activities, the production plan, and the management plan.

Many people start the planning process by finding a template that fits their enterprise and then writing this document. This approach ignores the critical element of this process, Strategy, Strategy, Strategy. The reason this is the most common approach is that it is easier to write than think. Most enterprise founders to not know the right questions to ask to develop and refine their strategy. Once the strategy has been clearly developed and aligned in a hierarchical manner, the document is simply an output.

When planning your enterprise, you need to discover what makes your plan work. You need to understand the real nuts and bolts of it, and there are two elements no enterprise can stay alive without, the first of which is, yes, cash flow. I'm referring here to the inflow of money. Ask yourself and think about it for a moment... What needs to happen for your enterprise to earn money?

The other crucial step is to outline the challenges faced by companies or enterprises within the industry. This is followed by the planned solutions for each of the problems. The solutions must be realistic and time-tested. In reality, you plan you put forward and implement in dealing with the industry threats determines if you survive and differentiate you from the competitions.

Use of technical terms is not desirable in writing business plans. The language should be simple and appropriate. One has to be selective in the use of words. Try to avoid using complex sentences. Writing informally is also advantageous in some cases.

Running an enterprise is for all practical purposes not as challenging as what we often cause it to be. You essentially need two particular things. The aptitude to reason and the capacity to think things through in logical terms.

Clearly, these steps require an input from professionals. As for a startup, it is even more crucial to get an experienced consultant to help you through the process. As an established company, an experienced consultant can still prove very helpful. They help design a business plan with all aspects clearly thereby helping the company to secure the much needed finance at the cheapest cost possible.




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