The document provides an overview of business planning and the business planning process. It discusses that business planning involves setting goals, forecasting the future, and organizing activities to achieve desired goals. Business plans are used both internally for management purposes and externally to obtain financing from investors and lenders. The key sections of a business plan typically include an executive summary, market analysis, value proposition, marketing/sales plan, management team, and financial projections. Developing a thorough business plan helps avoid surprises, organize complexity, align stakeholders, and improve business efficiency.
Management consultants are independent contractors with business skills who offer unbiased advice and opinions to help organizations. Consultants work across industries and geographies. They identify problems, gather facts, develop solutions, and help with implementation. Common consulting areas include business planning, information systems, management audits, and business process improvement. Consultants employ analytical techniques and methodologies to conduct engagements in areas such as marketing, strategy, product development, finance, sales, exporting, and human resources.
The document provides an evaluation guide for business plans that are submitted to lenders and investors. It outlines several areas that are important to consider, such as management experience, market potential, financial projections, and overall strategy. Each element is scored on a scale from 1 to 10 based on the quality and content provided in the business plan. Scores toward the lower end indicate deficiencies that need to be addressed for the business to have a successful operation and higher probability of securing funding.
Turn around projects involve taking an underperforming business and making it viable again through introducing urgency, adding value, and delivering results. Management Advisory Consulting takes interim roles in businesses and works with investors, creditors, and boards to diagnose issues, develop business strategies and plans, raise cash, improve processes, and coach the business over 9-18 months until it is stabilized. The turn around process involves diagnostic analysis, project planning, gaining buy-in, raising and monitoring cash flow, improving business techniques, and ongoing monitoring of progress.
This document discusses strategies for business success and avoiding failure. It notes that over 50% of small businesses fail within the first five years, often due to inadequate financing, cash flow issues, poor planning, or mismanagement. To succeed, businesses should establish strong internal systems and controls, including accounting procedures, an operations manual, and regular budget reviews. Conducting stress tests can identify weaknesses to address. Implementing best practices like strategic planning and annual budgeting can enhance a company's long-term value and prepare it for a successful exit.
TFS Business Advisors India Private Limited is a strategic and financial management company based in New Delhi that aims to add value to business enterprises through growth-focused offerings. Their services include corporate development and strategy, financial advisory, assurance services, internal financial consulting, resource mobilization, and more. They measure their success based on their clients' success. The team comprises experienced professionals with backgrounds in banking, finance, consulting, and more.
This document discusses the importance of developing a financial plan for a new business venture. The financial plan includes operating and capital budgets, pro forma income statements, cash flow projections, balance sheets, and break-even analysis. It provides estimates of revenue, expenses, cash positions, and profits over time to assess the viability of the venture. Spreadsheet software is useful for constructing the pro forma financial statements and testing different scenarios.
Leverage Management Services provides business transformation and management support services to help organizations improve performance and growth. They assist with identifying opportunities, overcoming challenges, and achieving long-term goals. Their services include business consultancy, investors support, management services, and business transformation to help clients boost growth, increase competitiveness, and generate value.
Management consultants are independent contractors with business skills who offer unbiased advice and opinions to help organizations. Consultants work across industries and geographies. They identify problems, gather facts, develop solutions, and help with implementation. Common consulting areas include business planning, information systems, management audits, and business process improvement. Consultants employ analytical techniques and methodologies to conduct engagements in areas such as marketing, strategy, product development, finance, sales, exporting, and human resources.
The document provides an evaluation guide for business plans that are submitted to lenders and investors. It outlines several areas that are important to consider, such as management experience, market potential, financial projections, and overall strategy. Each element is scored on a scale from 1 to 10 based on the quality and content provided in the business plan. Scores toward the lower end indicate deficiencies that need to be addressed for the business to have a successful operation and higher probability of securing funding.
Turn around projects involve taking an underperforming business and making it viable again through introducing urgency, adding value, and delivering results. Management Advisory Consulting takes interim roles in businesses and works with investors, creditors, and boards to diagnose issues, develop business strategies and plans, raise cash, improve processes, and coach the business over 9-18 months until it is stabilized. The turn around process involves diagnostic analysis, project planning, gaining buy-in, raising and monitoring cash flow, improving business techniques, and ongoing monitoring of progress.
This document discusses strategies for business success and avoiding failure. It notes that over 50% of small businesses fail within the first five years, often due to inadequate financing, cash flow issues, poor planning, or mismanagement. To succeed, businesses should establish strong internal systems and controls, including accounting procedures, an operations manual, and regular budget reviews. Conducting stress tests can identify weaknesses to address. Implementing best practices like strategic planning and annual budgeting can enhance a company's long-term value and prepare it for a successful exit.
TFS Business Advisors India Private Limited is a strategic and financial management company based in New Delhi that aims to add value to business enterprises through growth-focused offerings. Their services include corporate development and strategy, financial advisory, assurance services, internal financial consulting, resource mobilization, and more. They measure their success based on their clients' success. The team comprises experienced professionals with backgrounds in banking, finance, consulting, and more.
This document discusses the importance of developing a financial plan for a new business venture. The financial plan includes operating and capital budgets, pro forma income statements, cash flow projections, balance sheets, and break-even analysis. It provides estimates of revenue, expenses, cash positions, and profits over time to assess the viability of the venture. Spreadsheet software is useful for constructing the pro forma financial statements and testing different scenarios.
Leverage Management Services provides business transformation and management support services to help organizations improve performance and growth. They assist with identifying opportunities, overcoming challenges, and achieving long-term goals. Their services include business consultancy, investors support, management services, and business transformation to help clients boost growth, increase competitiveness, and generate value.
A business plan is a formal written document that describes the strategies and opportunities of a proposed venture. It contains current status and projected results of the new business. The business plan gives direction to the entrepreneur's vision, helps evaluate future prospects, seeks loans, and helps attract stakeholders. It also helps monitor progress, identify strengths/weaknesses, and assess feasibility. The business plan should include sections on executive summary, company details, management team, capital requirements, financial projections, market analysis, and aspects like financials, marketing, and distribution channels.
The document discusses the importance of due diligence for entrepreneurs seeking investment. It outlines the due diligence process, including preparing critical documents, evaluating the management team and marketing plans, reviewing financials and revenue, and addressing yes/no questions. Deal breakers for investors include issues with ethics, IP, or unrealistic expectations. The document provides a detailed checklist of materials needed for due diligence and tips for entrepreneurs, such as anticipating the process, being open and honest, and responding quickly to investor requests.
The due diligence team researched a large enterprise with over 300M subscribers that generates over $2T in annual revenue. However, the management team is running deficits and taking on unsustainable debt despite the revenue. The fractured and uncoachable management team is unwilling to address financial issues or develop plans for the future. As a result, the due diligence team recommends not investing in the enterprise due to concerns about the management.
Using Portfolio Management to Improve Business InvestmentCarolyn Reid
Structured Portfolio Management is very valuable to businesses in maximizing their Return on Investment. Portfolio Management ties investments to strategy to ensure the organization is realizing it's expected benefits and achieving it's strategy.
Northern Light Capital is a business advisory firm that provides strategic advice and operational tools to small and mid-sized companies. It aims to help clients improve performance, profitability, and enterprise value. The firm's principals have extensive experience in industries like aerospace, automotive, and manufacturing. Northern Light Capital offers services such as strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions advisory, and operational reviews. It seeks investment opportunities in manufacturing, distribution, or business service companies valued between $5-100 million that require operational or strategic assistance.
Business plan-guidelines-for-south-african-businessesAbisha Kampira
A business plan must meet certain criteria to effectively guide a business and inform interested parties. It must be practical and doable given the business's internal and external factors. It should present solutions to key business questions like objectives, customers, competition, financing, and growth. The length and level of detail depends on factors like the investment value, intended audience, and novelty of the business idea. An effective business plan is based on thorough qualitative and quantitative research conducted at the national, industry, market, and internal company levels. It typically includes sections on the business overview, external analysis, marketing strategy, operations, and financial projections.
Starting a business requires diligent planning and execution. Develop a step-by-step plan and stick to it. Conduct thorough market research to understand customer needs and competitors. Create a professional business plan that includes an executive summary, product/service analysis, market strategy, management/staff details, and financial projections. Obtain necessary funding to launch your business idea and begin promotion. Anticipate challenges around cash flow, customer service, and staff management to ensure long-term success.
This document provides an overview of different financing options for businesses at various stages, including informal risk capital (investments from business angels), venture capital, and going public. It discusses the criteria for different financing alternatives, characteristics of informal investors and venture capital firms, the venture capital process, valuing a company, and the registration process and requirements for going public.
The document provides a checklist for a CFO's first 100 days in a new role. It outlines key tasks for the first 30 days, 31-60 days, and beyond 60 days. The first 30 days focus on stakeholder management, risk and compliance, and operational performance assessments. These include identifying stakeholders, reviewing financial reporting and controls, and assessing finance team performance. The 31-60 days then focus on developing strategies in these areas and continuing assessments. Beyond 60 days involves ensuring finance alignment with business strategy, reviewing risk management and budgets, and evaluating the finance operating model. The checklist is intended to help a new CFO efficiently stabilize and assess their new role.
This document discusses entrepreneurial intentions and corporate entrepreneurship. It defines entrepreneurial intentions as the motivational factors that influence individuals to pursue entrepreneurial outcomes. Intention is stronger when an action is perceived as feasible and desirable. It also discusses how education, age, work history, role models, and support systems influence entrepreneurial characteristics and intentions. Additionally, it contrasts managerial and entrepreneurial decision making, and provides steps to establish corporate entrepreneurship within an organization.
Strategy exists at multiple levels of an organization, from corporate strategy that guides overall purpose and scope, to business unit strategy that focuses on how a business competes in particular markets. Operational strategy concerns how each part of the business is organized to deliver strategic direction. Strategic management involves analyzing a business's position, understanding external factors, identifying strategic options, evaluating and selecting options, and then implementing strategy through organizational action. It is a process that answers how strategy is managed through strategic analysis, choice, and implementation.
Restructuring - and improving business performanceDavid Brown
This document discusses restructuring a business to improve performance. It covers topics such as integrating acquisitions, restoring profitability, and adapting to market changes. Restructuring does not need to be an overhaul, but can be coordinated initiatives to improve results. Careful planning and skilled execution of restructuring projects can profoundly impact business performance. The document provides an overview of issues to consider for various aspects of restructuring, including organizational structure, costs, performance measurement, operations, and employee relations. It emphasizes the importance of developing a conceptual framework and management team to successfully drive change.
This document discusses entrepreneurship and small business. It defines entrepreneurship as planning, organizing, operating, and assuming risk of a business. Small businesses are privately owned by individuals and have sales and assets that are not large enough to influence their environment. Small businesses play an important role by creating the majority of new jobs and being responsible for innovations. The document outlines strategies for entrepreneurial organizations such as choosing an industry and developing competitive advantages. It also discusses financing options, franchising, reasons for startup successes and failures, and performance factors.
1) To successfully execute acquisitions as a growth strategy, companies need a dedicated internal M&A team and clear strategy that identifies the types of targets that align with strategic objectives. This includes establishing financial and operational criteria for targets.
2) It is important to build relationships with potential sellers and other relevant parties to identify suitable targets. Companies should prioritize targets and communicate their interest to efficiently guide the deal process.
3) The initial steps of any acquisition involve exchanging non-disclosure agreements, evaluating strategic fit and financials of the target to determine valuation and willingness to proceed with a letter of intent or indication of interest. Proper sequencing of due diligence tasks is important to control costs and progress deals
Due diligence is the investigation or evaluation of a business or person prior to signing a contract, or an act with care and due diligence to avoid legal liability. It involves investigating the business's financials, legal risks, operations, and other critical areas. Effective due diligence requires the right team with industry expertise across functions like finance, law, HR, and IT. It aims to identify strengths, weaknesses, risks, and valuation prior to an acquisition or investment. While it can reduce risks, due diligence does not guarantee against failures, which can occur due to lack of focus, opportunity/risk identification, or adequate resources.
This document discusses due diligence and its importance in mergers and acquisitions. It defines due diligence as an investigation to confirm facts before entering a transaction. Reasonable diligence means considerations vary by situation. Due diligence goals include collecting target company information, conducting SWOT analyses, and identifying risk areas. The process typically involves planning, data collection, analysis and reporting phases. Due diligence is important for acquisitions, IPOs, and other transactions to understand risks and ensure a good strategic fit. Checklists help avoid overlooking issues, but due diligence remains judgment-driven and poses integration and information risks.
This document provides an introduction to management consulting. It discusses:
1) What management consulting is through examples of common business problems consultants help solve and the structured problem-solving approach used.
2) An example engagement approach consultants may take including defining the problem, developing hypotheses, analyzing data, and communicating findings.
3) Key elements of any organizational strategy that consultants help formulate including aspirations, baseline analysis, strategic options, and ensuring alignment of business models, organizational models, and operational models.
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eStudio34 presents London Search Love 2015 | Google's Predictable Content Pre...William Renedo
Getting your site to rank is obviusly important. But what about the rest of the search results? Google has a preference towards certain types of content that it would even entertain showing in a search result for your brand. In order to make te most of this, content marketing has to extend outside your fully controlled domains. The best places to extend into depend on the vertical you are in. Using this knowledge to look at ways to create sustainable content marketing campaigns that actually work for the client.
A business plan is a formal written document that describes the strategies and opportunities of a proposed venture. It contains current status and projected results of the new business. The business plan gives direction to the entrepreneur's vision, helps evaluate future prospects, seeks loans, and helps attract stakeholders. It also helps monitor progress, identify strengths/weaknesses, and assess feasibility. The business plan should include sections on executive summary, company details, management team, capital requirements, financial projections, market analysis, and aspects like financials, marketing, and distribution channels.
The document discusses the importance of due diligence for entrepreneurs seeking investment. It outlines the due diligence process, including preparing critical documents, evaluating the management team and marketing plans, reviewing financials and revenue, and addressing yes/no questions. Deal breakers for investors include issues with ethics, IP, or unrealistic expectations. The document provides a detailed checklist of materials needed for due diligence and tips for entrepreneurs, such as anticipating the process, being open and honest, and responding quickly to investor requests.
The due diligence team researched a large enterprise with over 300M subscribers that generates over $2T in annual revenue. However, the management team is running deficits and taking on unsustainable debt despite the revenue. The fractured and uncoachable management team is unwilling to address financial issues or develop plans for the future. As a result, the due diligence team recommends not investing in the enterprise due to concerns about the management.
Using Portfolio Management to Improve Business InvestmentCarolyn Reid
Structured Portfolio Management is very valuable to businesses in maximizing their Return on Investment. Portfolio Management ties investments to strategy to ensure the organization is realizing it's expected benefits and achieving it's strategy.
Northern Light Capital is a business advisory firm that provides strategic advice and operational tools to small and mid-sized companies. It aims to help clients improve performance, profitability, and enterprise value. The firm's principals have extensive experience in industries like aerospace, automotive, and manufacturing. Northern Light Capital offers services such as strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions advisory, and operational reviews. It seeks investment opportunities in manufacturing, distribution, or business service companies valued between $5-100 million that require operational or strategic assistance.
Business plan-guidelines-for-south-african-businessesAbisha Kampira
A business plan must meet certain criteria to effectively guide a business and inform interested parties. It must be practical and doable given the business's internal and external factors. It should present solutions to key business questions like objectives, customers, competition, financing, and growth. The length and level of detail depends on factors like the investment value, intended audience, and novelty of the business idea. An effective business plan is based on thorough qualitative and quantitative research conducted at the national, industry, market, and internal company levels. It typically includes sections on the business overview, external analysis, marketing strategy, operations, and financial projections.
Starting a business requires diligent planning and execution. Develop a step-by-step plan and stick to it. Conduct thorough market research to understand customer needs and competitors. Create a professional business plan that includes an executive summary, product/service analysis, market strategy, management/staff details, and financial projections. Obtain necessary funding to launch your business idea and begin promotion. Anticipate challenges around cash flow, customer service, and staff management to ensure long-term success.
This document provides an overview of different financing options for businesses at various stages, including informal risk capital (investments from business angels), venture capital, and going public. It discusses the criteria for different financing alternatives, characteristics of informal investors and venture capital firms, the venture capital process, valuing a company, and the registration process and requirements for going public.
The document provides a checklist for a CFO's first 100 days in a new role. It outlines key tasks for the first 30 days, 31-60 days, and beyond 60 days. The first 30 days focus on stakeholder management, risk and compliance, and operational performance assessments. These include identifying stakeholders, reviewing financial reporting and controls, and assessing finance team performance. The 31-60 days then focus on developing strategies in these areas and continuing assessments. Beyond 60 days involves ensuring finance alignment with business strategy, reviewing risk management and budgets, and evaluating the finance operating model. The checklist is intended to help a new CFO efficiently stabilize and assess their new role.
This document discusses entrepreneurial intentions and corporate entrepreneurship. It defines entrepreneurial intentions as the motivational factors that influence individuals to pursue entrepreneurial outcomes. Intention is stronger when an action is perceived as feasible and desirable. It also discusses how education, age, work history, role models, and support systems influence entrepreneurial characteristics and intentions. Additionally, it contrasts managerial and entrepreneurial decision making, and provides steps to establish corporate entrepreneurship within an organization.
Strategy exists at multiple levels of an organization, from corporate strategy that guides overall purpose and scope, to business unit strategy that focuses on how a business competes in particular markets. Operational strategy concerns how each part of the business is organized to deliver strategic direction. Strategic management involves analyzing a business's position, understanding external factors, identifying strategic options, evaluating and selecting options, and then implementing strategy through organizational action. It is a process that answers how strategy is managed through strategic analysis, choice, and implementation.
Restructuring - and improving business performanceDavid Brown
This document discusses restructuring a business to improve performance. It covers topics such as integrating acquisitions, restoring profitability, and adapting to market changes. Restructuring does not need to be an overhaul, but can be coordinated initiatives to improve results. Careful planning and skilled execution of restructuring projects can profoundly impact business performance. The document provides an overview of issues to consider for various aspects of restructuring, including organizational structure, costs, performance measurement, operations, and employee relations. It emphasizes the importance of developing a conceptual framework and management team to successfully drive change.
This document discusses entrepreneurship and small business. It defines entrepreneurship as planning, organizing, operating, and assuming risk of a business. Small businesses are privately owned by individuals and have sales and assets that are not large enough to influence their environment. Small businesses play an important role by creating the majority of new jobs and being responsible for innovations. The document outlines strategies for entrepreneurial organizations such as choosing an industry and developing competitive advantages. It also discusses financing options, franchising, reasons for startup successes and failures, and performance factors.
1) To successfully execute acquisitions as a growth strategy, companies need a dedicated internal M&A team and clear strategy that identifies the types of targets that align with strategic objectives. This includes establishing financial and operational criteria for targets.
2) It is important to build relationships with potential sellers and other relevant parties to identify suitable targets. Companies should prioritize targets and communicate their interest to efficiently guide the deal process.
3) The initial steps of any acquisition involve exchanging non-disclosure agreements, evaluating strategic fit and financials of the target to determine valuation and willingness to proceed with a letter of intent or indication of interest. Proper sequencing of due diligence tasks is important to control costs and progress deals
Due diligence is the investigation or evaluation of a business or person prior to signing a contract, or an act with care and due diligence to avoid legal liability. It involves investigating the business's financials, legal risks, operations, and other critical areas. Effective due diligence requires the right team with industry expertise across functions like finance, law, HR, and IT. It aims to identify strengths, weaknesses, risks, and valuation prior to an acquisition or investment. While it can reduce risks, due diligence does not guarantee against failures, which can occur due to lack of focus, opportunity/risk identification, or adequate resources.
This document discusses due diligence and its importance in mergers and acquisitions. It defines due diligence as an investigation to confirm facts before entering a transaction. Reasonable diligence means considerations vary by situation. Due diligence goals include collecting target company information, conducting SWOT analyses, and identifying risk areas. The process typically involves planning, data collection, analysis and reporting phases. Due diligence is important for acquisitions, IPOs, and other transactions to understand risks and ensure a good strategic fit. Checklists help avoid overlooking issues, but due diligence remains judgment-driven and poses integration and information risks.
This document provides an introduction to management consulting. It discusses:
1) What management consulting is through examples of common business problems consultants help solve and the structured problem-solving approach used.
2) An example engagement approach consultants may take including defining the problem, developing hypotheses, analyzing data, and communicating findings.
3) Key elements of any organizational strategy that consultants help formulate including aspirations, baseline analysis, strategic options, and ensuring alignment of business models, organizational models, and operational models.
Шкільна бібліотека Калинівської ЗОШ І-ІІІ ступенівВолодимир Тичак
Бібліотека – море книг,
Бібліотека – храм науки.
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Тут зібрані думки учених,
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eStudio34 presents London Search Love 2015 | Google's Predictable Content Pre...William Renedo
Getting your site to rank is obviusly important. But what about the rest of the search results? Google has a preference towards certain types of content that it would even entertain showing in a search result for your brand. In order to make te most of this, content marketing has to extend outside your fully controlled domains. The best places to extend into depend on the vertical you are in. Using this knowledge to look at ways to create sustainable content marketing campaigns that actually work for the client.
The document discusses problems in Africa related to lack of democracy and leaders controlling the media. It proposes a real-time online voting system accessible via the internet as a solution to give power to the people, establish democracy, and help bring peace by having citizens choose leaders and comment on their choices. The system would rank leaders based on citizens' preferences and number of votes and comments received. Teams would be needed to develop the online voting platform across different devices and manage tasks like design, programming, and communication.
Translation of The Noble Quran in the Sindhi LanguageThe Choice
This Sindhi translation was sponsored by the Saudi government and is provided free.
Publisher: King Fahd Complex For The Printing Of The Holy Qur’an Madinah, K.S.A.
The document discusses Jewish astronomy and its applications. It covers three main points:
1. The relationship between the Jewish calendar and astronomy, and how astronomy is used to determine calendar dates.
2. Astronomical observations and calculations that are part of Jewish holidays and rituals, such as the appearance of the new moon.
3. The potential for further developing and applying Jewish astronomy to areas like timekeeping, geography, and climate studies.
This document is a curriculum vitae for Rakhee Sharma. It provides her personal and contact details, career objective, experience summary, academic qualifications, technical skills, employment history and job roles and responsibilities. She has 10 months of experience as an Assistant Accounts at Sreepathi Lab Pvt Ltd in Hyderabad, where her roles include bookkeeping, accounts receivable/payable, and preparing financial reports. She holds a B.Com degree from Osmania University and is seeking a permanent full-time position in Hyderabad or Secunderabad as an accountant.
Rotary Club Bogor History, Works & Vision 2016 2017loveabby
The document provides information about the Rotary Club of Bogor, Indonesia. It discusses the club's history, founding in 1987 with 25 members, and lists its past presidents. It also outlines the club's meeting location, vision, and types of community service projects undertaken since 1992, including clean water initiatives, education programs, healthcare support, disaster relief, and vocational training. Major ongoing projects mentioned are a library program, harelip surgery funding, and a free cataract surgery partnership.
The document describes a public works monitoring platform developed for the Municipality of Parma, Italy using Drupal. The platform provides real-time updates, visualization of progress and issues, and reporting capabilities. It replaces outdated Excel spreadsheets and meetings. Project managers can directly update data. Administrators have oversight and citizens can access information about public works. The system improves transparency and coordination for an investment of 530 million Euros in public works projects.
This document contains 3 case studies on using information systems and customer relationship management (CRM) software to improve business processes and customer experience. The first case study focuses on Asian Paints and how they implemented SAP CRM to transform their business model, gain visibility into customer interactions, and launch a new home services division. Key benefits included improved processes, revenue growth, and deeper customer insights. The second case study discusses how IDBI Bank used an integrated management accounting system to improve profitability. The third case study examines Procter & Gamble's efforts to better understand customer needs through information systems.
This document summarizes volunteer opportunities for several upcoming events in June 2012, including the MS Walk, Special Olympics Walkathon, and Fraser Heights County Fair. The MS Walk and Special Olympics Walkathon will take place on Sunday, June 3rd from 11am to 3pm and are seeking 6-8 volunteers who can sign up via Facebook. The document also lists several other upcoming events in need of volunteers.
Andamio clasificación de los indicadores sergio alberto carlos velázquezal151692
Este documento describe cuatro clasificaciones de indicadores (según medición, nivel de intervención, jerarquía y calidad) y sus características. Proporciona ejemplos de indicadores cualitativos, cuantitativos, de impacto, resultados, procesos, productos, insumos, gestión, estratégicos, eficiencia, eficacia y efectividad. Concluye que los indicadores miden el logro de objetivos organizacionales y detectan desviaciones para mejora continua.
El documento discute las posiciones innatista y empírica sobre la naturaleza de la conciencia moral humana. También describe diferentes tipos de conciencia como escrupulosa, laxa, recta, cierta y errónea. Además, analiza conceptos como los actos de conciencia moral, la ignorancia y la definición y naturaleza de la conciencia humana.
Internet advertising revenues in the US totaled $20.1 billion for the first six months of 2013, an 18% increase from the first six months of 2012. Search advertising accounted for 43% of revenues, while display advertising such as banners accounted for 30% and the fastest growing format was mobile advertising, which increased 145% and accounted for 15% of total revenues. The retail industry continued to be the largest spender on internet advertising.
Translation of the Meanings of The Noble Quran in the Somali (Soomaali) LanguageThe Choice
This Somali (Soomaali) translation was sponsored by the Saudi government and is provided free.
Publisher: King Fahd Complex For The Printing Of The Holy Qur’an Madinah, K.S.A.
The document discusses various aspects of starting a new business, including generating ideas, evaluating ideas through feasibility studies, preparing a business plan, executing the business plan, and the role of society and family. It provides details on conducting industry and market analysis, assessing financial feasibility, and evaluating the entrepreneur. Key components of a business plan like the executive summary, organization description, marketing plan, and financial projections are also outlined. The document emphasizes the importance of alignment between strategy, people and processes for successful business plan execution and ongoing review.
This document discusses tools and processes for innovation and entrepreneurship. It provides an outline for a business plan, including sections on marketing, production, management, and finances. Key points covered include brainstorming techniques for generating ideas, screening ideas through macro and micro analysis, using SWOT to evaluate remaining ideas, and standard components of a business plan like executive summary, products/services, market analysis, operations, and financial projections. The document emphasizes that planning is an ongoing process, not just a static plan, and outlines best practices for an effective business plan.
Manager Planning Business Analytics March 2015 - Michael DraytonMichael Drayton, MBA
This job posting is for a Manager of Financial Planning and Business Analytics who will conduct complex analyses to improve financial and operational effectiveness. Key responsibilities include managing the budgeting process, conducting return on investment analyses for capital projects, and optimizing real estate holdings. The ideal candidate will have 5-7 years of experience in business finance or analytics, proficiency in Excel, and the ability to clearly communicate findings.
Points to ponder Management Consulting.docxKalasekar M
Management consultants help organizations solve problems in a similar way to how a dentist diagnoses and treats issues like cavities. Consultants objectively analyze organizations to identify issues preventing strategic and operational success. They gather data through research, interviews, and analysis to develop insights and recommendations. Consultants then work closely with clients to present solutions, incorporating ongoing feedback until final deliverables are approved. Management frameworks are important tools consultants use to guide organizations and ensure alignment with strategic goals based on assessing internal operations and external market factors.
This document provides an overview of how to write an effective business plan in 3 pages or less. It discusses the key elements that should be included such as an executive summary, company description, market analysis, management plan, and financial projections. The document emphasizes that a business plan is an organized way to evaluate all aspects of a business and can be used as a management tool and to seek financing. It provides guidance on how to address each section and examples of the type of information that should be presented.
A strategic plan provides a framework for business decisions and goals. It explains the business to others and helps with performance monitoring. A strategic plan differs from an operational plan in that it is more visionary and conceptual while an operational plan is shorter term and focused on implementation. Developing a strategic plan involves several key steps: defining a vision for the future of the business, crafting a mission statement, identifying core values, setting objectives and strategies, and establishing goals and implementation programs. The process requires reviewing past performance and identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to help guide strategy development.
This document summarizes an agenda for a business planning session hosted by the Wharton Small Business Development Center. The agenda includes reviewing homework from the previous session, finalizing the business plan, finding expert advisory boards, and accessing additional resources from the SBDC. Participants will work on bringing all parts of their business plan together and discuss next steps for completing and using their plan.
Financial officers handle the financial health of an organization by producing reports, directing investments, and developing long-term financial goals. Their duties include preparing financial statements and forecasts, ensuring legal requirements are met, reviewing reports to cut costs, and analyzing trends for expansion opportunities. They oversee the organization's financial activities and work to achieve its long-term financial objectives.
This document provides an overview of preparing a business plan, including why it is necessary, when it is needed, and its key components. A business plan benefits a new or growing business as a reality check, business resume, operations timetable, modeling tool, and blueprint. The main components of a business plan are an executive summary, business description, operations, marketing, personnel, financials, and appendices. Research, financial forecasts, and supporting documents are also important elements to include.
The document provides guidance on strategic and business planning for non-profit organizations. It emphasizes that planning is a critical process that establishes a vision, mission, goals and implementation plan. Strategic planning focuses more on internal strategy while business planning also includes financial projections and is often shared externally. Key components of planning include assessing strengths/weaknesses, opportunities/threats, developing strategies to achieve goals, and creating detailed implementation and financial plans.
The document discusses the importance of developing a business plan for new ventures. It outlines the key components of an effective business plan, including an executive summary, description of the business and products/services, competitive analysis, marketing strategy, management team, and financial projections. Developing a thorough business plan helps entrepreneurs effectively organize and plan their venture, assess feasibility, and secure financing from investors or lenders. Regular monitoring and updates to the plan are also important as the business evolves.
The document discusses several strategic planning models that can be used by organizations, including the Strategy Map, Balanced Scorecard, SWOT Analysis, PEST Analysis, Gap Planning, Blue Ocean Strategy, Porter's Five Forces, and VRIO Framework. It provides overview and examples of each model. The models can be used to analyze internal/external factors, identify goals and measures, compare current/desired states, explore new market opportunities, and evaluate competitive advantages. While each has strengths, the best model depends on an organization's specific context and needs.
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6. Wikipedia:
Planning (also called forethought) is the process
of thinking about and organizing the activities
required to achieve a desired goal.
…combines forecasting of developments with
the preparation of scenarios of how to react to
them
7. Setting Goals
Thinking
Forecasting/Visualization of Future
Organizing
How to React – Courses of Action
(Managing proactively is better!)
8. Both Internal and External Uses:
Management
Equity Financing – Investors
Debt Financing – Lenders
Business Development –
e.g. strategic partners, suppliers, distributors,
landlords, regulators, community groups, etc.
9. All Levels – CEO to dishwasher
Strategic – Long-term organizational
goals. Executive function.
Operational/Tactical – Day-to-day
management. Managers
Individuals – Organization of work.
Personal and career
10. BOARD OF DIRECTORS – Key Strategies, L-Term Goals,
Policies, Values
CEO – Competitive Strategies (Marketing), Overall Business
Development, Strategic Relationships, Exec Team-
Building/Organization/Capital Preparedness
PRESIDENT – Overall Business/Organizational Mgt.
VPs – Overall Departmental/Functional development and
management
DEPT. MANAGERS, SUPERVISORS – Operations,
staffing, budgets..
Large Organizations:
11. Owner/Managers – Wear many hats
Both Internal and External People –
Employees/staff and external consultant,
advisors, service providers
12. Avoid Surprises – Anticipate future events
Prepare for what ever happens
Cheaper to “make mistakes on paper”
Organize Complexity
See things more clearly – how pieces fit
together and interact
13. Definition of goals
Definition of assumptions
Strategic allocation of scarce resources
Coordination
Alignment – Working with same concepts and
principles and goals
Improved Efficiency
14. Confusion
Become reactive (instead of proactive)
Everyone makes their own plans
“System” deteriorates
Unhappy customers
Loss of competiveness
15. Clarity, focus on key strategies
More proactive
Better integration/coordination
Satisfied customers
Greater Competitiveness
34. ► The activity
► set of institutions
► and processes
► for creating, communicating, delivering, and
exchanging offerings
► that have value for customers, clients,
partners, and society at large.
35. Responsibility of the managing leadership within a business, not a
separate function.
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a
customer… Because it is its purpose to create a customer, any
business enterprise has two — and only these two—basic
functions: marketing and innovation…
Marketing is so basic that it is not just enough to have a strong
sales department and to entrust marketing to it. Marketing is not
only much broader than selling; it is not a specialized activity at
all. It encompasses the entire business. It is the whole business
seen from the point of view of its final result, that is from the
customer’s point of view. Concern and responsibility for marketing
must therefore permeate all areas of the enterprise..
36. The function that links the consumer, customer, and public to the
marketer
through information used to
identify and define marketing opportunities and problems;
generate, refine, and evaluate marketing actions
monitor marketing performance; and improve understanding of
marketing as a process.
specifies the information required to address these issues,
designs the method for collecting information,
manages and implements the data collection process,
analyzes the results,
and communicates the findings and their implications.
37. Captures/specifies/organizes all projected, quantifiable assumptions
about the enterprise, including hard and soft resources, growth and
development processes, sources of income, costs, expenses,
investments, sources of capital, financial structure, and all sources and
uses of funds.
Requires the participation/input of planners and managers most
familiar with, and responsible for, the various areas of the enterprise
Structures and charts a systematic roadmap to meet the needs of the
organization/operation itself, and that of each and all stakeholders
38. Aids in strategic, systems-oriented allocation of resources
Specifies key strategic development/value-creation goals and
milestones
Informs the architecture and key monitoring points for Management
Information Systems
Allows for “stress tests” and other sensitivity analyses
Allows for efficient periodic updating of plans
39. Yields data for work products needed for fundraising and stakeholder
communications and relationship management
Provides clear analyses for investors, lenders and entrepreneurs to
understand their investments and returns
Thoroughly prepares entrepreneurs, owners and executives for
negotiations with others vying for a piece of the pie. Enables strategic
control of what, how much, and how financial information is shared.
Conveys/sells the capabilities and professionalism of an entrepreneur,
business and management team.
40. Pre-operations/organization budget
Startup operation at a loss
Sales projection / development
Break-Even-Point
Required operating loss reserves
Continued growth development
Running rate
Financial structure – debt / equity
Investor analysis
Lender analysis
Sustainability until next value inflection point/value
milestone/exit
43. DEMAND VS. SUPPLY = GAP?
COMPETITIVE STRATEGY:
CUSTOMER-FOCUSED MISSION
◦ Vision/Mission
◦ Value-Proposition
◦ Raison D’etre
44. Does my business idea have potential?
What are my source(s) of finance?
Do I have experience in the field or know
someone who does?
Where will my business be located?
How many employees will I hire?
45. What is a Business Plan?
A roadmap to business success
47. ◦ Executive Summary (1- 2 pgs.)
◦ Product and/or Service Description
◦ Financial Plan
◦ Marketing Plan
Analysis
Need
Target Market
◦ Competition
48. What is a FICO (Fair Isaac Corp) Score?
◦ Measures Credit Worthiness (Risk)
◦ Score Range from 300 to 850
◦ Determines whether Banks will Approve or
Deny You Credit
◦ Determines Your Loan
Interest Rate
49.
50. Separate Personal funds from business
◦ Open a business bank account
Obtain a Credit Card & Merchant
Account
◦ Expand Customer Base (short term supplies
- network or outreach)
◦ Increase Sales & Profits by accepting
Debit and Credit Cards
51. Business Name or DBA (Doing Business As)
is your legal business name
You don’t need a DBA if?
◦ Using part or all of your surname plus the
service or product description (i.e. Mr.
Jones Auto Repair versus JS Auto Repair)
52. If you are not using your legal name you
must:
◦ Contact the County of S.D.
Assessor/Recorder/County Clerk’s Office
◦ File a Fictitious Business Name
◦ Check to Ensure the name is not already in
use
53. Sole Proprietorship
General Partnership
“C” Corporation
“S” Corporation
Limited Liability Corporation
54. PROS CONS
Simple Formulation
(i.e. fictitious business
name, license, permit)
Minimal Cost (business
license, public
announcement)
No Special Business
Income Tax Rates
Bankruptcy – Company
& Individual
Not Protected from
Liability
55. PROS CONS
Partnership Pays No
Tax (Individual Return)
Inexpensive to Create
and Maintain
Partnership Agreement
Partner Liable for Debt
and Legal Liabilities
Third Party Issues –
Partnership Comes
Under Fire
56. Identical to General Partnership
Difference is Limited versus General
Only Liable for Capital Investment
No Involvement in Company Management
Allows Shared Profits without Losing More
than their contributions
57. PROS CONS
Legal Entity which Files
Its’ Own Taxes
Responsible for Its’
Own Dealings (Liability)
Unlimited Number of
Shareholders
Expensive to Begin &
Maintain (annual fees)
Board of Directors
Stock Must be Issued
Double Taxed on
Dividend Income (to
avoid roll-over)
58. PROS CONS
Responsible for Its’
Own Dealings (Liability)
Shareholders can
claim their share on
personal income taxes
(avoids double
taxation)
Expensive to Begin &
Maintain (annual fees)
Limited to a Max. of 75
Shareholders
Not Double Taxed on
Dividend Income
59. Hybrid of a Corporation and Partnership
Identical Tax & Liability as a Corporation
Same Management Structure as Partnership
Articles of Organization are Submitted to
the State
Operating Agreement (can be verbal)
60. Why do I need Business Insurance?
Lawsuits, natural disasters and injuries to
you or your employees could threaten your
business at any time. Obtaining business
insurance is critical to the existence of your
business.
61. If possible hire an
attorney to review
the contract/lease
agreement
Read all Terms
and Conditions
(including the fine
print)
62. The city and type of business determines
what licenses and permits you will need
Search for your industry’s business
license and permits through the Cal gold
website:
◦ www.calgold.ca.gov
63. There are more than 200 Regulated
Businesses
◦ State Department of Consumer Affairs
www.dca.ca.gov
◦ Police Regulated - S.D. Police Dept
www.sandiego.gov/police/
64. Seller’s Permit
◦ Selling Tangible
Personal Property
How to obtain a Seller’s
Permit
◦ State Board of
Equalization
www.boe.ca.gov
65. What is an EIN Number?
Why do I need an EIN Number?
Where do I obtain an EIN Number?
◦ Internal Revenue Service
◦ (800) 829-3676
◦ www.irs.treas.gov
67. Ensure the Feasibility of Your Business
Business Research
Business Plan Preparation
Get Your Finances in Order
Utilize Small Business Resources
68. Website - http://www.growmybiz.org
How You Can Use our Services
* Workshops * Counseling
10-Key Steps to Starting a Business
Business Plan Template
S.D. SBDC Business Training Center
We are here to Serve
You!
69. SBDC Can Help You!
Our Mission is to provide superior consulting
& training to small businesses resulting in
entrepreneurial success & growth &
prosperity for California.
San Diego SBDC
Southwestern College Higher Education Center
880 National City Boulevard, Suite 103
National City, CA 91950
Tel. (619) 482-6391—Fax: (619) 216-6692
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