...BUSINESS PLAN: Express Bottle Maker, GmbH Table of Contents 1. Executing Summary 4 2. The Business 5 2.1. The Opportunity 5 2.2. The Description of the Business 6 2.3. Competitive Advantage 7 2.4. Current Status and Requirement 9 3. Management Team 10 3.1. Management Team 10 3.2. Board of Directors and Advisers 12 3.3. Key Professional Services Providers 13 4. Company Structure, Intellectual Property, and Ownership 13 4.1. Organizational Structure 13 4.2. Legal Structure 15 4.3. Intellectual Property 16 5. Industry Analysis 16 5.1. Industry Description 16 5.2. Target Market 20 5.3. Competitive Position within Target Market 25 6. Marketing Plan 25 6.1. Product Feasibility and Strategy 25 6.1.1. Product Strategy 26 6.1.2. Concept Testing 26 6.1.3. Usability Testing 26 6.2. Pricing Strategy 27 6.3. Channels of Distribution 27 6.4. Promotions and Advertising 28 7. Operational Plan 29 7.1. Method of Services Delivery 29 7.2. Availability of Qualified Labor Pool 30 7.3. Business Partnership 30 7.4. Quality Control 31 7.5. Customer Support 31 8. Financial Plan 32 8.1. Capital Requirements for the Next Three to Five Years 32 8.2. Overview of Financial Projection 33 8.3. Income Statements 33 8.4. Cash Flow Projections 33 8.5. Balance Sheet 34 8.6. Payback and Exit Strategy 34 9. Critical Risk Factors 35 ...
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...Subway Franchise Business Plan ¬¬¬SUBWAY FRANCHISE GULFWAY Shopping Center Franchise owner Back in 1965, Fred DeLuca set out to fulfill his dream of becoming a medical doctor. He needed a way to pay for his education. A friend by the name of DR. Peter. Buck offered a suggestion of opening a submarine sandwich shop. Fred was able to obtain a loan of a 1,000 dollars and Fred’s Friend Peter. Buck offered to become business partners with him. After that they were able to start on an incredible journey that would revitalize the fast food market. The first store they were able to open was in Bridgeport, Connecticut in August, 1965. Then, after words they set a goal of having 32 stores opened in 10 years. Fred soon learned the basic ins and outs of running his fast food chain. Fred was able to operate his business with low costs and high profit while providing excellent service and high quality of food. These lessons would later serve him well in the Subway empire he was building. Now the Subway brand is the world’s largest sandwich shop which now consists of over 37,000 shops worldwide. Type of ownership This will be a LLC company and Franchised owned. I have picked this route because the company is already established and has done well on the market. I will be a LLC as well because if for some unseen reason in the future my business is sued I will not lose all my assets as well as the business. There were many reasons for me choosing...
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...Business plan Nom de l'entreprise Adresse Version/Date BUSINESS PLAN PLAN DE BASE (à compléter grâce aux indications que vous obtiendrez en sélectionnant le titre de rubrique) Résumé Portrait de l'entreprise, management Produits/services Marché, clients Entreprises et produits concurrents Plan marketing Infrastructure et technologie Gestion financière Planification financière et opérationnelle Evaluation des risques Annexes Bref descriptif de la rubrique 1. Résumé ( En une seule page, vous présentez de manière synthétique votre société. Vous expliquez vos objectifs et la manière de les atteindre. Vous indiquez enfin l'objet de votre demande. Plus de détails… 2. Portrait de l'entreprise, management ( Présentation détaillée de votre entreprise : • son histoire • sa forme juridique • sa structure interne (organigramme, collaborateurs en nombre et en genre, localisation, actionnariat, conseil d'administration, etc.) • son management (élément primordial) : les compétences des cadres sont à présenter ainsi que les mesures prises en vue de leur succession/suppléance. • son environnement externe Plus de détails… 3. Produits, services ( Présentation de vos produits/services et de leur raison d'être. Quels sont les développements en cours et les évolutions...
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...Summary of Disaster Recovery Plan This document contains the summary of the Disaster Recovery Plan for Penson Financial Services, Inc. It is intended to serve as the centralized repository for the tasks that would be necessary to facilitate the Penson decision-making process and its timely response to any disruptive or extended interruption of the department’s normal business operations. This is especially important if the cause of the interruption is such that a prompt resumption of operations cannot be accomplished by employing normal daily operating procedures. Immediate Reaction: Evacuation of the Facility during Business Hours: Pack critical data at the sound of the alarm Gather all work in process and all unprocessed work and place it in the Evacuation Bag Penson Fire Marshals will assist in evacuation using the stairwells The department should have a list of those employees who are disabled, experience medical problems or who are pregnant. Gather at a Pre-Determined location Department head counts must be taken to ensure all employees have been accounted for If there is staff missing, notify the Penson Fire Marshals and they will notify emergency services Everyone must remain in this location until called upon for disaster relief or released to return home. The Business Unit Managers must insist that everyone released return directly to their home in the event their services will be needed later. Fundamentals of a Disaster...
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...A proven approach for entrepreneurs only Outline for a Business Plan Stein Bjørnstad 2002 Modified – based on a freely available template from Ernst & Young. Executive Summary The Executive Summary should not be a mere listing of topics contained in the body of your business plan but should emphasize the key issues presented. A critical point that must be communicated in the Executive Summary is your company’s distinctive competence—the factors that will make your business successful in a competitive market. 1. The Purpose of the Plan 1. Attract investors 2. Document an operational plan for controlling the business 2. Market Analysis 1. The characteristics of your target market (demographic, geographic, etc.) 2. The products or services you will offer to satisfy those needs 3. The Company 1. The needs your company will satisfy 2. The products or services you will offer to satisfy those needs 4. Marketing and Sales Activities 1. Marketing strategy 2. Sales strategy 3. Keys to success in your competitive environment 5. Product or Service Research and Development 1. Major milestones 2. Ongoing efforts 6. Organization and Personnel 1. Key managers and owners 2. Key operations employees 7. Financial Data 1. Funds required and their use 2. Historical financial summary 3. Prospective financial summary (including a brief justification for prospective sales levels) [pic] ...
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...Company Name: Pay it forward Book Supplier Executive summery Executive Summary The College Cafe is a student-to-student Internet marketplace providing college students with the opportunity to buy, sell and trade college textbooks, participate in auctions, post classified ads, provide teacher evaluations, and buy products for college. The College Cafe's target market consists of over 15.8 million college students who spend $200 billion annually. The College Cafe was founded in July and is presently in its start-up stage. 1.1 Solution The College Cafe will enable students to buy, sell, and trade used textbooks directly to other students, by-passing the university bookstores. By selling textbooks to other students, the seller can receive more money than the bookstore will pay and the buyer can pay less than the bookstore charges. In addition to textbooks, students will be able to sell class notes, old tests, computers, dorm accessories, used CDs, tutoring services or anything students wish to sell via an online student-to-student marketplace. In addition, the College Cafe will offer other services such as classifieds, teacher evaluations, weblogs (bloggers), specialized content and retail. The College Cafe will establish itself as the leading online student-to-student marketplace by combining extensive market-specific expertise with Internet technologies to generate revenue while creating a win-win solution for students. The College Cafe will achieve market...
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...Company Name: Pay it forward Book Supplier Executive summery Executive Summary The College Cafe is a student-to-student Internet marketplace providing college students with the opportunity to buy, sell and trade college textbooks, participate in auctions, post classified ads, provide teacher evaluations, and buy products for college. The College Cafe's target market consists of over 15.8 million college students who spend $200 billion annually. The College Cafe was founded in July and is presently in its start-up stage. 1.1 Solution The College Cafe will enable students to buy, sell, and trade used textbooks directly to other students, by-passing the university bookstores. By selling textbooks to other students, the seller can receive more money than the bookstore will pay and the buyer can pay less than the bookstore charges. In addition to textbooks, students will be able to sell class notes, old tests, computers, dorm accessories, used CDs, tutoring services or anything students wish to sell via an online student-to-student marketplace. In addition, the College Cafe will offer other services such as classifieds, teacher evaluations, weblogs (bloggers), specialized content and retail. The College Cafe will establish itself as the leading online student-to-student marketplace by combining extensive market-specific expertise with Internet technologies to generate revenue while creating a win-win solution for students. The College Cafe will achieve market...
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...achieving near term objectives. Because it helps define appropriate short-term actions, it is more likely that the same line manager, making the staffing decision will still be in place to collect the benefits of that decision later on. First of all, it is important to address staffing from a proactive, planning perspective and not just an implantation phase. Even though this approach may have been used before, it is no longer realistic for organizations to assume that the staff needed to implement its plans is readily available and quickly recruited, trained, and qualified to work. Some staffing limitations may impact the company’s ability to implement its plans. For instance, my organization requires that only registered nurses with advance life support certification are to be scheduled to work on sub-acute unit. If this requirement is impossible to fulfill and company is unable recruit a sufficient number of nurses with critical care skills then implantation plan may not be successful. These limitations should...
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...How to Create an Effective Change Management Plan Prosci's Change Management Toolkit is one of the most comprehensive guides for managers, project teams and consultants involved in change management. The toolkit includes detailed planning templates, readiness assessments and guidelines for building executive sponsorship and managing resistance. Templates include communication plans, training plans, sponsor roadmaps, coaching plans and resistance management plans. Based on research with more than 700 companies, The Change Management Toolkit is a leader’s guide that contains templates and guidelines to help you effectively employ change management and write a complete and professional change management plan. Assessment tools and implementation guidelines will help you implement an effective change management strategy.The Change Management Toolkit enables you to: * Manage the people side of change, not just the business side. * Develop a change management strategy for your project. * Create a communication plan. * Actively manage resistance to change. | Toolkit elements: * Change management overview - what is change management, why is it important, what can I do to manage change effectively * Assessments - tools for evaluating your change and your organization's readiness for change * Templates - critical document templates for planning and executing change management - provided on CD-ROM * Theories and perspectives - a practical discussion of change principles...
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...List and briefly discuss the stages of a multimedia project. Be sure to define the milestones that mark the completion of the phase. Firstly, you must develop a sense of its scope and content, having a rough idea in your head on how to design your project. Then I have to develop an organized outline and a plan that is rational in terms of the skills, time, budget, tools, and resources that I have in hand. Scheduling, once I have worked out with my plan that include the phases, tasks and work items that I feel will be required. I have to layout these elements along a timeline. This will usually include milestones at which certain deliverables are to be done. To create a schedule I must estimate the total time required for each task. After scheduling, estimating the cost of the project will be relevant to estimate the entire cost after the project has been completed. It is relatively simple matter to estimate cost and effort, For example, the manufacturing industry. Having a progressive accounts and billing will be saved to review the financial part of the project, for example preparing a cost sheet. Finally, write and structure the elements of the multimedia project. Potential clients do not have a clue about how to make multimedia, but they do have a vision on their project. As a project designer, I will know what, my clients want and how to satisfy them. I occasionally may encounter a more formal request of proposal. This are typically detailed documents from large corporation...
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...Time Management is very important especially in a busy person,making deadlines/quotas because you make plan so that everything will settled down according before or after the scheduled time. Time management Developing time management skills is a journey that may begin with this Guide, but needs practice and other guidance along the way. One goal is to help yourself become aware of how you use your time as one resource in organizing, prioritizing, and succeeding in your studies in the context of competing activities of friends, work, family, etc. First: try our exercise in time management: How do you spend your time each day? Strategies on using time: These applications of time management have proven to be effective as good study habits. As we go through each strategy, jot down an idea of what each will look like for you: * Blocks of study time and breaks As your school term begins and your course schedule is set, develop and plan for, blocks of study time in a typical week. Blocks ideally are around 50 minutes, but perhaps you become restless after only 30 minutes? Some difficult material may require more frequent breaks. Shorten your study blocks if necessary-but don't forget to return to the task at hand! What you do during your break should give you an opportunity to have a snack, relax, or otherwise refresh or re-energize yourself. For example, place blocks of time when you are most productive: are you a morning person or a night owl? ...
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...longer is it acceptable simply to make good products that satisfy customers while complying with laws and regulations. Businesses are now called upon to consider – and, indeed, intentionally to manage – the wider social and environmental consequences of their actions, beyond the requirements of the legal and regulatory settings in which they operate” (Charles River Center, 2008). Thus it is important for Charles River Printing (CRP) to include this concept into its sustainability vision and mission in order to make it as part of their daily operations and grow as a responsible company. To build the strategic planning practices (SPP) for CRP it is important to develop action plans, the timeline for its planning; the level of stakeholder engagement; the governance structure; risk assessment and mitigation plans; and most importantly measure its progress (Pojasek, 2013. p.1). While doing this it is important to integrate the policies and strategies with respect to the economic sustainability, social responsibility and environmental stewardship of the company. Moreover, the goals have to be aligned with the mission, vision and core value of the company and vice versa. The first step is to develop the SPP would be to understand that of its parent company RR Donnelley. The plant manager should try to align the SPP of CRP with the parent company to have a common methodology and then improvise the strategies, while keeping in mind the long term goals of the company. CRP can follow international...
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...developing a comprehensive set of plans to integrate and coordinate organizational work. The term planning as used in this chapter refers to formal planning. Types of Planning: * Informal – not written down, little or no sharing of goals with others in the organization * Formal – specific goals covering a period of time are defined II. Why do Managers Plan? Purposes of Planning * Planning gives direction * Reduces the impact of change * Minimizes waste and redundancy * Sets the standard used in controlling Planning and Performance * Generally speaking, however, formal planning is associated with positive financial results. * The quality of the planning process and appropriate implementation probably contribute more to high performance than does the extent of planning. * When formal planning has been shown not to lead to higher performance, the environment is usually the reason. * Organizations need at least four years of systematic formal planning before performance is impacted. III. How do Managers Plan? Elements of Planning A. Goals * Goals are desired outcomes for individuals, groups, or entire organizations. Goals are objectives–the two terms are used interchangeably. They provide the direction for all management decisions and form the criterion against which actual work accomplishments can be measured. B. Plans * Plans are documents that outline how...
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...other characteristics and establish action plans to attain specific goals. If the Carter Cleaning Company setting up a career planning program the company receives advantages such as improve leadership skills, keeping career on track, dealing with career problems, to help achieve educational targets effectively and also help to evaluate personality. A well-planned career helps to achieve goals. As time passes by, growth and needs change. On my mind, every employee in the company must participate in the career planning program because through this program employees achieve formal education, utilize development opportunities, establish goals, assess interests and skills, values, and responsibility for her/his career. Training and development programs play important role in career planning program too. Program provides different opportunities for learning skills and attitudes related to job. Through the career workshop every employee learning the event in which participant are expected to be actively involved. Career Development Program is lifelong activities which contribute to a person career exploration, establishment, and success. Career Development Programming is delivered through a combination of several processes and methods. I propose a career development program for Carter Cleaning Company which consists of individual development plan, career coaching/counseling plan, training and development program, and career workshop plan; and I hope it will be effective for the company...
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...http://edugen.wileyplus.com/edugen/courses/crs4637/rc/jiambalvo3341c... GOAL OF MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING LEARNING OBJECTIVE 1 State the primary goal of managerial accounting. Virtually all managers need to plan and control their operations and make a variety of decisions. The goal of managerial accounting is to provide the information they need for planning, control, and decision making. If your goal is to be an effective manager, a thorough understanding of managerial accounting is essential. Planning LEARNING OBJECTIVE 2 Describe how budgets are used in planning. Planning is a key activity for all companies. A plan communicates a company's goals to employees aiding coordination of various functions, such as sales and production.A plan also specifies the resources needed to achieve company goals. Budgets for Planning The financial plans prepared by managerial accountants are referred to as budgets. A wide variety of budgets may be prepared. For example, a profit budget indicates planned income, a cash-flow budget indicates planned cash inflows and outflows, and a production budget indicates the planned quantity of production and the expected costs. Consider the production budget for Surge Performance Beverage Company. In the coming year, the company plans to produce 5,000,000 12-ounce bottles. This amount is based on forecasted sales. To produce this volume, the company estimates it will spend $1,500,000 on bottles, $400,000 on ingredients, $150,000 on water,...
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