Business Basics 3: Operations Planning & Execution

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Business Basics 3: Operations Planning & Execution
This is workshop 3 out of 4 Business Basics series designed to give you a solid foundation with regards to starting your own business. These 4 sessions are the fundamentals of most businesses and presented by BACD's advisors.
 This module is about linking your Business’s Strategic Goals and Objectives to the tactical Goals and Objectives you have set for your business.  By developing these operational strategies, you can create effective and efficient systems for running your business, using your resources, staffing and your work process or production.  This operations plan justifies your annual operating budget and establishes the activities and budgets for each part of the organization helping you map your sales to your budget.
An operational plan addresses the following questions:

Where are we now?

Where do we want to be?

How do we get there?

How do we measure our progress?