Failing to plan means losing to someone who has succeeded in the same. Running a business is the most dynamic activity possible as a million gears work in complete harmony for one huge machine to smoothly function, perform thousands of different small tasks to ensure contentment of one customer and hundreds of people achieving their individual goals while making one long-term goal possible.
What is planning? And what type of planning is needed in running a business? Making a business plan is an essential part for any entrepreneur whether you are looking for finance, marketing, human resource management, production or process management. Business planning gives a direction to the company and allows you to know the resources you are going to need in the present as well the future and aids you to prepare for their availability as the requirement arises. While planning for your business - one, five, or ten years down the line, certain things become vital to ensure competitiveness and success in the market.
We strongly advocate that the first step towards generating a business model and developing a business plan should be revolving around understanding your target market and identifying the most likely prospective customers in that set. While working with our partners, we put in constant efforts to help them classify their future customers and understand what they would be ready to pay for. By analyzing what they need and want, what influences their decision making, what they see and perceive and how they feel about a particular product or service, we position our partners in a place where they can easily convert their prospective to regulars.
The next big thing is to define value proposition which will enable you to provide our target market. We promise to help our partner’s design a unique value proposition that would ensure the fulfillment of the customer’s needs and wants to the maximum which, in turn, would ensure repeat sales and a long-standing relationship. It is always about value and relationships, not about price.
Once these critical elements are figured out, we assist them to plan out the detailed logistics of all processes; from production to distribution; human resource management to marketing; finance to developing key partnerships. Following this, we are left with categorizing the activities that would impact our costs and the sources from which revenue will be coming in.
Until now, we have figured out how our business will be functioning and what gears will be required to warrant uninterrupted operations. What gains significance now is to determine where we would like to reach in a specific time period. We need to determine the vision and aim of our partners and help them set targets accordingly..