Planning

Be prepared to impress with a professional-edge Business Plan prepared by an MBA who knows the criteria for plan evaluation. Take stock of resources required and timelines through an Action Plan and Pro-Forma Cash Budget in order to avoid post-launch scrambling for solutions or cash.

Darry Marengere will describe the elements of the Business Plan and "tell the story" of the three legs of the enterprise development stool: the opportunity, the entrepreneur(s), and the capital. It will then secure them tight with the fourth leg: the "edge" or the "in." Whether the Business Plan is required for persuasion or smooth roll-out, Darry can help optimize the start-up of your small- or medium-size enterprise.

What's in a Business Plan?

• What is the product/service?
• What is the market?
• What is its size?
• Who is the customer?
• Who are the competition and how do they do it?
• What is their share?
• How will the product/service be made or delivered?
• What resources will be required (facility, equipment, supplies, staff, working capital)?
• How will it be promoted?
• Why will customers buy from you? What was the idea, incentive or catalyst behind all this?
• What is it about you that will cause your attempt at this to succeed?
• How much investment will be required, and when?
• Where will it come from?
• What are the expected profitability and rate of return?
• Where is the Action Plan: the particular activities, in order, with timelines, deadlines, costs, responsibility, and milestones?

Steps to Success

Darry Marengere can:

• Distinguish your enterprise in a forest of competitors and amid trillions of daily messages: Get noticed, be chosen, become known.
• Formulate a strategy to meet demand for your personal or organizational competencies with superiority and profitability, and execute it.
• Implement metrics so your enterprise can stay on top: Measure its performance, predict and gauge movements of competitors, and handle industry forces.
• Ensure a superior customer experience through streamlining operations.
• Establish control through costing, policies and procedures, and developing organizational culture.
• Reduce human resource expenses and effort through establishing responsibility centres, defining reporting relationships, refining staffing methods, and increasing job enrichment and employee empowerment.
• Make you a better leader.

Choose from any or all of the above steps towards improving the performance of your enterprise.

Not sure what you need? Darry will explain how each step addresses particular goals or problems, and discuss how they can be applied to your situation.

What is the process?

Problem Solving

Darry Marengere can provide solutions to problems of small- and medium-size enterprises. Top line, bottom line, cash flow, debt, and low customer retention are all common problems organizations encounter. Solutions are possible!

Often these problems in small- and medium-size enterprises are ramifications of external events or industry change and not reflective of the abilities of owners and managers.

Darry Marengere Business Services can apply its expertise in the management of small- and medium-size enterprises to the stubborn or critical problems owners and managers are facing. Solutions will be provided so you can get over the bump on the road to success.

What is the process?

Intelligence Reports

There's an old adage that says "You can't manage what you can't measure." Do you know what's going on in- and outside your company? Too busy to do a competitive or business intelligence analysis? Darry Marengere can support your informed decision-making through the preparation of custom and concise information reports.

Developments in:

• The political and regulatory environment,
• The industry, including trends, and new products / services,
• Critical customer groups – or potential ones,
• The marketplace of competitors, and, of course,
• Communication and information technology

will impact your business.

Report content could also consist of analyses of internal activities such as sales, costs, or interpretation of finances beyond monthly statements.

Information is key in the knowledge economy, and Darry Marengere can compile and deliver it with bang-on content and in the format that busy managers need. Also available on-line through Marengere Group website secure accounts.