Why use a Business Plan?
Every business needs to have control over their company. You gain control through maintaining a company vision, planning for the future, taking action and maintaining a healthy Company culture and spirit. These are all details that can be held in a business plan.
Businesses are most likely to prepare a business plan when starting up or when a major change in their business is happening. However, there are many benefits in maintaining a current business plan.
The process of producing a plan encourages you to critically examine your business, comparing it to competitors and assessing areas of strength and areas of weakness. Once complete, your plan can be used when:
• seeking finance from investors or lending institutions
• exploring new business ventures
• implementing an e-commerce solution.
• when buying a business
• selling your business or part of your business
• outlining opportunities in developing a new products or services
Also, use the plan to share your vision with your team, investors and others intended readers.
A good business plan provides a benchmark against which to measure the performance and progress of your business.
As your business develops, your plan should be adapted to reflect these changes.
Why use Control(CTRL)™ business planning software?
Many businesses start without any clear idea about how they are going to develop and whom they're going to serve. For any dream to become a reality it requires not only a clear vision, but planning and action as well.
Instead of using a fixed template, Control(CTRL)™ lets you customise each plan you produce. Your document can be edited as your business develops. This means that your business plan remains up to date and useful, with the option of adding extra plans tailored for potential investors, new products
or divisions, joint ventures or internal use. You can document as little or as much as you choose.
Control(CTRL)™ breaks down each part of the planning process, simplifying what seems like an overwhelming task, and ensuring that nothing is missed. The result is a plan made up of small logical, manageable steps that can be acted on easily.
Your business plan should be a call to action, a living document, not simply an exercise you go through to satisfy investors before you file it away to be forgotten! Your plan is a tool – it allows you to keep your business on the track for success. Control(CTRL)™ allows you to easily update and modify your plan, and the extensive reporting facilities allow you to print relevant information for individual parties and requirements.
The only way to stay on track is to measure your progress. Control's robust planning tools, spreadsheets and powerful graphics give you rock-solid help in measuring your business.
Control(CTRL)™ is user friendly and easy to use. Also included are examples, tips, tricks, hints and a large range of supporting documents to refer to while planning.
Taking control of your business improves your chance of success. You gain control by having a vision, creating a plan, taking action and acting with spirit. Control(CTRL)™ is the tool to help in this process.
Features of Control (CTRL)
CTRL is a business planning tool for NZ business that offers a unique “all-in-one” system for the creation of a business plan.
The five major areas of a business plan are included:
1. Executive summary
2. Marketing plan
3. Operations plan
4. Human resources
5. Financial plan
Other features include
• SWOT and PEST analysis
• KPI’s – Key performance indicators
• Organisational chart
• Spell checker & thesaurus
• Strategic and tactical plans
• Graphs, piecharts, flow charts
• Business plan samples
• Supporting documents
• Links to useful websites, organizations & reference material
• Action plan
All this can be printed professionally with Control(CTRL)™s' extensive reporting tools.
What makes Control(CTRL)™ so easy to use?
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