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Business Planning

Preparing a business plan can be the first of several stages in selling your business or raising finance. It can ultimately provide useful information to a potential buyer, or simply help you secure funds from institutional investors.

But writing a good one is a bit of an art. The kind of plan you need for your bank manager will be very different from one you show to potential investors, or even to your own managers and staff. It has to be tailored to your audience. In this respect, our experience could be crucial to your success.
We can assist or guide you in the planning process, or if you prefer, we can prepare a plan based on your requirements and goals.

Volensis will make sure that your business plan answers the questions its readers need answered. And if it's for internal use, our broad commercial experience will help us make sure your future plans are realistic and achievable.

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Business Start-Up and Development Advice

Business Start-up

If you’re thinking of starting a business, Volensis can give your new venture the best possible chance of success by ensuring you don't lose sight of the practicalities. Our business start up team will:

• Advise you on the appropriate structure for your business
• Help you draw up a business plan
• Explain the best way to approach your bank manager and other finance providers
• Make sure you set up the right financial systems
• Share their expertise on budgeting and cash flow forecasting
• Liaise with HR Revenue & Customs and Companies House

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Business Review and Strategic Planning

Our Business Review exercise involves a complete review of your business. The report following the review highlights all the issues in the business that has to be dealt with and it envisages a plan of action with Time scales, Protocols and an Action Plan in place

Strategic Business Planning

Every business needs a strategy in place to grow and develop. Whether you are a start-up trying to break in to the market or whether you are along established player who wants to stay ahead of its competitors, your business strategy would be a crucial factor in determining yor success or failure.

We at Volensis will work with you work with you and your team to see how your strategy affects five key business areas:

• Operations: How do you keep moving forwards as efficiently as possible? Are systems in place to monitor and respond to change?
• Marketing: What kind of vehicle will you choose to take you on your journey?
• What will your choice of vehicle say about you and your passengers?
• Technology: Think of your journey as a race: what technology will help keep you ahead of the competition?
• Human Capital: Who needs to be on board to get you to your destination? What will their needs be?
• Finance: How will you fund your journey? Where will the resources come from?
• As importantly, we'll help you develop the key performance indicators to track progress and keep you moving towards your goal.

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Profit Improvement

Profit is the oxygen without which a business cannot survive.

What level of profit is needed to drive the strategy, is necessary to lower the risk profile of the business, and will match the profit aspirations of the owners, management and other stakeholders?

Are you making the profits you need? Are you making the profits you want?

When was the last time you undertook a full review of all profit components and how each component impacted upon the business and the other components?

Some of the key issues to focus on are:

• Strategic positioning
• New business - new customers, new products and services
• Retaining existing business
• Cross fertilisation between product and services
• Efficiency of operations
• Overheads
• People costs
• Cost benefit analysis
• Profit choices
• Actions and commitments

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Growth Advice

If you have substantial growth aspirations, our skills can help you identify and exploit new opportunities and achieve controlled growth. Most importantly, we will listen to you and work with you and use our knowledge and experience to provide bespoke advice at all stages of the growth cycle:
We will advise you and work with at all stages of the growth cycle from Creation to Growth to Maturity and Decline.

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