Course Outline
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"Making the business of tomorrow starts out with the conviction that the business of tomorrow will be and must be different … Making the business of tomorrow cannot be a flash of genius. It requires systematic analysis and hard rigorous work today."
Peter Drucker
Business Planning
The HappyAtom Business Planning course will help managers to develop comprehensive, realistic, action-oriented business plans.
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The Pitfalls
There are dangers associated with business plans!
- the weight of detail blurs the critical success factors
- conventional financial analysis discourages investment
- resentment as the people closest to the "coalface", interacting with customers and suppliers, are told what is important by people furthest from the coalface
- action plans are not integrated into daily plans
Overcoming the Pitfalls
The HappyAtom's approach overcomes these dangers by:
- ensuring that the performance drivers in the business are clearly identified and measurement systems established - what gets measured gets done!
- conventional financial analysis is balanced by new approaches that value intangibles such as brand, relationships, skills, processes
- encouraging the involvement of people throughout the organisation in the planning process. As Deming said, "If you want to know how to put the wheel on a car better; ask the man who puts the wheel on the car."
