Strategy Development and Business Planning essential for all businesses!

Why then do so few develop one?

If you don't have a business plan that you use regularly to control, monitor and develop your business then you fall in to the group of business that without luck will fail to be as successful as they should have been. Businesses without a written and used business plan and strategy are 90% more likely to stall and 50% more likely to go out of business completely. Why then do businesses not have written and used business plans and strategies to achieve their goals. In our experience these are the key reasons - do you recognise any of them for your company? We thought that the business plan was something you only wrote for the bank or when you started a business We have a plan but we never look at it We don't have time to sit around and write plans we have a business to run We can't be bothered writing down things we have it in our head We don't plan round here there are to many things that change all the time We don't understand what benefits a business plan could give us or how to develop a usable one so we have never done one We are quite happy where we are and don't want to think about the future Writing a business plan takes a long time and is complicated with loads of financial that I can't do We have found that taking the time to write a business plan is the most important thing any business can do. It will enable you to discuss with the other key players in your business or life where you are going and what you wish to achieve. It will mean that you can communicate with others to tell them the same things. This means that suddenly everyone knows where they are going and how you will try to get there. You will all move in the same direction. You will all have common goals. Business plans also enable you to review where you are today. They enable you to put in measures so you can monitor how you are doing. They enable you to take time to think about how you are doing and where you are going. May people are so busy with the day to day they have not got time to realise how well they are doing. We think that they are so important that we have set up a special strategy development and planning one-day program. We will take you and the other key players in the business through a series of issues, which by then will have started your business plan and strategy documents. We will teach you how to do it, why it is important and will write the plan. We are so confident that you will find this the most important day your business had that at the end of it you determine how much to pay us for the day. If you think it was a waste of time then pay us nothing. But if you think it was invaluable you pay us what you think the day was worth to you.