TPA business plan writing
I have a cunning plan…

We have written quite a few plans in our time and helped raise many millions of pounds.

Whatever stage you are at in creating your business plan TPA can help make it an effective document.

If you have already written a plan we can look over it and suggest improvements. If you have a blank sheet we can do everything from market analysis and marketing plans through to 3 year financial forecasts.

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TPA Vision Creation
Believing is seeing

The difference between the great entrepreneurs and mere mortals is vision. Great entrepreneurs have a clear vision of their future. They know the intimate details and can see, touch and smell it. They can share that vision and create a team who move together towards achieving it.

It quickly became apparent to TPA that many companies simply did not have a vision of the future. If they did it was not all-encompassing and was seldom a vision shared with anyone else.

TPA developed a programme to assist companies create a common vision and then break it down into key elements to make that vision become the reality.
This method has now been refined to a one day session for between 2 and 10 people. The session is designed to enable selected managers and/or staff to be able to create a shared vision of a successful future. A by-product of the process is that it draws out current issues in a non-threatening environment and often opens the door to quick wins.

The Thornton Perry Vision Creation Programme is a thought provoking day with a very practical output. It is an opportunity to start thinking beyond the issues and pressures of everyday working life.

The techniques learned can be used in formal settings with other levels of the organisation or can be used to think creatively in the office or in the car.

TPA vision creation will:

• Show you and your team how to imagine the future.
• Enable you to create a common vision of your successful future.
• Introduce you to methods designed to draw out all the elements required to turn the vision into reality.
• Introduce you to methods to plan out the strategy for turning the elements of the vision into reality.
• Give you the tools to constantly update your vision of the future in a changing environment.

Follow up

Following the Vision Creation day, TPA will visit your business within one week and present the findings of the day to your team.

This session will re-enforce the techniques and ensure that they are put into practice.

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Business Process
Think of TPA as business therapists!

We start by making sense of your business, mapping it out clearly and simply so it starts to make more sense to you. From this starting point we can help you develop your future strategy.

What is a Business Process?

Business processes describe the activities of your company / company employees as they perform their day to day duties

As a general rule, business processes will lose 15-20% of their efficiency within two years of being defined and installed. This means that you should subject your business processes to regular review to ensure that they continue to meet the needs of your business.

What is Business Process Analysis?

• It identifies the nature and quality of inputs to (and outputs from) your business process
• It outlines the transformation of inputs to outputs that happens within the business process
• It describes how you wish to deal with exceptions to the business process
• It tracks observations of business process made by your management team
• It identifies and removes the barriers to the smooth and efficient operation of the business process
• It highlights and disseminates “best practice” throughout your business
• It identifies the measurements you need to make to monitor and control the business process

Why is it important to manage your Business Processes?

• Your business processes define how your business operates


• You should constantly aim to improve your business processes to increase quality and productivity whilst driving down costs


• Your business processes can be used to train new employees

Business Process Analysis

This process begins by creating Business Scenarios i.e. the key processes that drive your business forward – these are then analysed using the six step process as highlighted below:

1. Identify Business Process to be mapped
2. Map current state (“As Is”) Business Process
3. Identify Business Processes to be analysed
4. Analyse Current State (“As Is”) Business
5. Develop Future State (“To Be”) Business
6. Perform Migration/Implementation

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Benchmarking
The Thornton Perry Model

The Thornton Perry ‘Competitive Analysis and Benchmarking' model has been developed as a tool to help companies evaluate their current positioning in the market and identify real opportunities and USP's (Unique Sales Propositions) to drive the business forward. The model incorporates ‘best practice' from a number of sources and has been put together by Thornton Perry to add real value to business planning and applications.

While the Thornton Perry model can be used as a one off to refine the positioning of a business at a point of time, its real added value comes from using it as a rolling analytical tool to improve business positioning on an ongoing basis.

Each organisation that undertakes the Thornton Perry analysis will be given detailed documentation (both hard copy and ‘electronic') to enable them to complete the various exercises that make up the analysis process.

Specifically this model is a vehicle to enable companies to develop a vision for the future, identify areas of improvement following brainstorming and develop plans to exploit the opportunities highlighted following a comparison of required positioning v/s positioning realised following benchmarking activity i.e. identifying market gaps where activity can create USP's and profitable points of differentiation

 

Methodology

The Thornton Perry model is a fully integrated model with eight key steps which logically follow each other. The model is graphically shown:

“Dantotsu” striving to be the best of the best

“Ishikawa” – Cause and effect

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Communication
You talkin' to me?

Communication is key to all commerce. At TPA we can help you communicate with your customers, with your staff and with the public.

Ever wondered why some people can get up and deliver great orations? The secret is that they have skilled speech writers! TPA has a great deal of experience in writing business speeches so you don't have to.

If you want to take it further TPA can also write and produce your whole conference from booking the venue to auto cues.

For internal communication and direct mail we can help you with your newsletters and bulletins. Depending on the level of help required we can get involved from writing copy right through to design and print.

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