Understanding the current position of your business
Reviewing your business to understand which parts are performing well and which ones need some changes in approach is a good place to start. This will help you to identify resource requirements including:
Finance and Funding
A guide to securing investment for your business
Five steps to finding and applying for grants
What you should know about long and short term finance
Talent and Training
Five Reasons to ‘always be recruiting’
Developing A Workplace Health And Wellbeing Strategy
How to Implement a Continual Recruitment Strategy
Hear from the Team
Planning your business doesn't stop after start-up
On-demand video: successful cash flow management
Case Studies and Articles
Case Study: Affinity Academy
Case Study: Crisp Accountancy
6 things to consider when planning in uncertain times
Resources and Tools
SWOT and PESTLE analyses can be used to conduct a systematic and thorough evaluation of your business. The process gives you as the business owner/leader a greater awareness and understanding of the changes that may occur and the impact that these changes may have on your business.
While a SWOT analysis focuses on a company's internal strengths and weaknesses, a PESTLE analysis concentrates on the external factors. Using both methods together produce a comprehensive evaluation of a project.
PESTEL Analysis
This tool helps you to define those external factors, over which you have no control of, but you MUST be aware of. This awareness enables both reactive and proactive plans to be made to ensure business competitiveness.
SWOT Analysis
This template enables you to examine YOUR business and identify those key factors that affect the ability of the business to be resilient and competitive within its defined area of commercial activity.
