How to reduce your chance of failure.

Business planning is essentially about taking an approach to thinking strategically about future of the business while taking into account the present scenario. It is established now that business planning greatly improves the success rate of any business venture. The discipline involved in analyzing any business, its operating environment, defining competitive advantages, setting financial, personnel , operational plans and above all positioning the concerned business in the market, have its critical value now which was never before.

 Benefits of planning

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Planning leads to success in any business venture because it helps to:

 

  • Focus owners or managers attention on long term business goals
  • Identify areas of internal strengths and weaknesses
  • Identify possible threats and constraints on the business
  • Identify and assess business opportunity
  • Identify waste in the use of assets and resources
  • Pinpoint needs and resources
  • Strategies communicated to key stakeholders and employees to get their commitments
  • Secure funding to underpin growth
  • Define contingency plan to address foreseeable problems

 

The utility of business plan

 

There are many reasons why any business should invest in business planning. The most common reason is to obtain financial support from lenders to operate or expand the business. In other cases , where the business is experiencing trading difficulties , business planning is essential. Business planning is also essential where the business is changing to other products or rather diversifying , entering into new market or shifting to new premises. A business plan is also a prerequisite in applying for government grants to assist with export development and R&D.

 

Business Plan that succeed

 

Financially, factors which have been identified as having acceptance of business plan are the following:

 

  • Management teams expertise and competence
  • Not emphasizing product features at the expense of customers acceptance
  • Evidence that intellectual property of the company is protected
  • Realistic growth projections
  • An appreciation of lenders needs and expectations
  • Access to resources and key people to deliver the plan

 

Conducting SWOT analysis

 

Without any SWOT analysis, any business planning is not possible or useful  One may say it is part and parcel of any business planning worth the name.

 

        By Palonek Team