Clear Vision Consultation and Training

Business Planning – The Road to Achieve Extraordinary Results

Audience:

This program is designed for All managers and department heads, supervisors and group leaders.

Objectives:

By the end of this training program, each participant will be able to:

·        Develop managers’ skills in preparing effective plans for their organisations.

·        Enhance the managers’ ability to identify key resources and capabilities in their organisation and build them into competitive advantage.

·        Emphasise the importance of understanding the external as well as internal components of an organisation and how link these together to provide an effective plan.

·        Identify the benefits of a realistic business plan which isolates the gaps restraining achievements.

·        Identify key performance measures to monitor outcome of the plan.

Course Outline:

i         

What is a real business plan as opposed to a budget.

Top down or bottom up?

·        Understanding the organisation and its strengths and weaknesses.

·        What are the organisation’s competitive advantages?

·        Planning process.

ii       

What markets does the organisation serve, where are its prospects?

·        Developing the marketing plan.

·        How are the markets to be addressed, do they have the potential to match the organisation’s objectives?

·        Commodity or niche market propositions.

·        The need to understand the competition and who they really are. 

iii     

Existing operations, matching them to the plan’s objectives.

·        What resources are required to achieve the objectives, are they adequate or sufficient?     

·        Identifying gaps and how to fill them.

iv     

Organisation structure, does it meet the business’ objectives?

·        Key personnel.

·        Iterating the business plan.

v       

Guide to preparation of a business plan combining all facets of an organisation’s resources, capabilities and potential as well as threats.

·        Methods and techniques for scheduling & controlling