Business Development

  1. Analyse the role that planning has in developing new business streams
    • Use the TOWS matrix to identify a response to a future opportunity or threat
    • Identify the business planning links between marketing, finance, HR and operations
  2. Conduct research into demand and assess market potential
    • Produce an ‘opportunities matrix’ that supports strategy development and responses to external threats
    • Use primary and secondary research to define the size of an opportunity
    • Identify both tangible and intangible resources that exist and those required to support a development strategy
  3. Prepare a business model and present a business sales plan
    • Develop a business model to support a development strategy
    • Produce sales measures and key success factors Prepare and deliver a pitch to raise support and finance for a development strategy
    • Take feedback on their development strategy and make improvements