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Plan
Development
The Plan Development phase leverages the framework developed
during Business Rigor Roadmap Building. At the end of this phase,
you will have a solid 12-month plan, which includes financials,
major milestones and metrics, to help you measure progress at
regular intervals.
Plan Development is an iterative
process that establishes the habit of refining detailed activities
by continually asking, "What
do we need to do to hit our 12-month target?" During this
process, Functional Owners are encouraged to use creativity
and to look beyond standard operating practices. Each Functional
Owner fine-tunes his or her goals, measurable objectives and
growth strategies. Each Functional Owner also details the initiatives
and tasks required to accomplish each strategy.
One of the biggest
challenges to successfully growing a business is making sure
your entire organization is operating in sync.
During Plan Development, GAJ Services guides your team through
a one-day Cross-Functional Conversation workshop that encourages
communication between Functional Owners. The objectives of
this session include:
• Identifying major company milestones
• Having all Functional Owners commit to the milestone dates
• Uncovering
overlap between Functional Areas
This session resolves the challenge
of coordinating activities, which can occur while each Functional
Owner focuses on building
his or her area's future operations plan. During this workshop,
Functional Owners assume the responsibility of working out
issues themselves instead of relying on the CEO to make decisions.
The
last phase in Operations Planning is the final Management
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Roadmap Building enables an organization to build a 36-month
strategic growth roadmap, including financials and metrics. |
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| Operations
Planning helps Functional Owners ‘own ’ the
strategic roadmap by defining their tasks, major milestones
and metrics needed for the company to hit its financial
goals over the next 12 months. |
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| Execution
Support offers coaching and ongoing support
with activities such as quarterly reviews. |
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| Market
Entry includes a menu of support services to help
the organization reposition itself in the marketplace.
This includes a focused, fast-paced company launch program
to customers and the investment community. |
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