Business Planning
Understanding what business you want to be and how to
succeed in this business is important if your organisation
is to create a clear focus for all to work towards.
The business plan need not be complicated and can be a simple document for a simple business, resulting in a set of objectives, performance measures and actions.
Alternatively, it can also be a more complex affair for larger organisations where they may be operating in several markets and providing a range of services. In such cases it is often easier to look at each business unit individually and involve a wider range of management in the plans development, whilst an overall strategic view of the whole business has been maintained.
As leaders, all top management are responsible for the longer term strategic success of the business, but that is not to say they shouldn't be involving people from all levels in the business review process in order to identify opportunities for improvement.
We aim to ensure your business planning process is working effectively.
- Approach - to review your business planning process and improvements.
- Facilitate the business planning sessions, to
help ensure a good level of involvement, understanding and ownership of the resulting plans.
We can provide the following support:
Making Business Planning work for you
- Structured review - Undertake an objective and structured review of the business, i.e. by looking at its markets, products, competition,
operational efficiency, organisational structure, management systems, financial performance and much more. Gather some facts on each
of these areas so as to assist with an objective review.
- Involvement - Involve those who will be expected to own the resulting
plan and its delivery. Seeking feedback from operational levels as to existing frustrations and opportunities for improvement.
- Prioritise -
Idenitify the critical success factors in the resulting plan to ensure actions are prioritised, planned and managed.
- Organisational
review - Review the organisational structure and suitable role changes that will create the requird emphasis at the right levels.
- Management information changes - Ensure any resulting key performance information changes are linked to new business objectives
are reflected in the management information system and communications.
- Sell it! - Raise people's awareness of the 'big picture' and
their part in it through suitable two way briefings.