Business Planning
	Business Plans explain how an organisation does things right (or implements its Strategic Plan). They may be used internally to give direction to management and staff of the business or externally to show accountability and justify applications for funding. Change & Perform can assist Small Businesses with Business Planning by: 1. Developing a credible business plan that demonstrates your business’s ongoing feasibility, justifies bids for financing and provides strategic direction and guidance to managers as they implement the plan. 2. Reviewing existing operations to identify the issues that need to be addressed in a business plan and developing strategies for addressing them 3. Training business managers Change & Perform can assist Large Organisations with Business Planning by: 1. Developing one or more business planning models that will enable unit managers to demonstrate how their unit will contribute to the achievement of corporate objectives. 2. Designing and facilitating planning workshops to engender commitment to the planning and implementation processes. 3. Providing hands on support to managers as they develop workshop outputs into Business Unit Plans. Typical Assignment 1. The preparation of a Business Plan for a small Australian company operating offshore which was managed by Australians but staffed by local people. Work included research into the company’s present operations and facilitation of a Strategic Planning workshop and development of workshop outputs into a Business Plan which was a submitted to the Board as an application for capital investment 2. Design and facilitation of processes for developing a Regional Business Plan and ten Branch Business Plans for a medium sized organisation. These processes included market research, an internal analysis of each business, workshops, design of a Business Planning model and involving line managers in process of writing plans. How to prepare a Business Plan for a Small Business Learn to write a Business Plan Business Planning in Large Organisation For further information contact Kerry Feldman