Strategic Business Planning
Strategic business planning is often given short shrift by smaller organizations. Strategic planning starts with a mission statement or your reason for being in business. Next you perform an assessment of where you now which includes identifying strengths, weaknesses and opportunities. Then you set goals and objectives and lastly, you devise a plan to achieve those goals, a strategy for implementing the plan and method for monitoring the results.

Sales & Marketing
Marketing informs your market of your existence and how you uniquely can fill their needs. Selling is getting people to invest their resources in your goods or services. Selling and marketing encompass pricing, promotion and delivery. This part of the assessment will look at promotion and advertising, customer relationship management, pricing, delivery and customer satisfaction.

Financial Management
Financial management involves the optimum utilization of your funds to maximize your opportunities for success. Success requires expert financial management. Financial management includes coordinating funding needs, cash flow, inventory control, cost accounting, financial statement analysis, budgeting, forecasting, credit and expense control.

Human Resource Management
Human resource management involves the proper utilization of the skills and knowledge of the people in your organization so they willingly propel the company to meet its goals and objectives. Areas to assess will include, hiring and firing, goal setting, reviews, training programs, compensation plans and employee benefits.

Daily Business Operations
Daily business operations involve the handling of day to day activities. Most businesses get started with a good idea but keeping the company going requires effective administration and sound policies and procedures. This part of the assessment will cover corporate policies and procedures including employee handbooks, purchasing and supply chain management, credit, internal reporting, quality policies and accounting and administrative procedures.

Technology
Technology assists companies in becoming or remaining competitive. The process starts with the evaluation of available technology. The most difficult aspect of technology is making proper use of the available technologies. This part of the assessment will look at software and hardware systems as well as all corporate communication methodologies.

Competitive Analysis
Competitive analysis involves gaining knowledge of your competitors. This knowledge is used to get ahead and stay ahead. During this step, you will identify the key competitive variables such as quality of product, customer service, name recognition and price.

Business Partnerships
Business partnerships have benefited many companies. These alliances assist the business in keeping their customers satisfied. Partnerships can be with vendors, customers or competitors and cover customer needs that your organization is not qualified to meet. Many companies refer to this as “Can Do”. This means we will meet all of our customers needs whether we do it ourselves or use a partner from our network of strategic alliances to do it.

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