“He who fails to plan, plans to fail”

Every great endeavor begins with a great plan!  A business plan is your road map to building your organization, your business, or your outreach.  A well laid-out plan gives you a tangible reference, provides guidance to your managers, spells out your business for banks and other potential investors, considers the financial and human resources required, and enables you to think critically and realistically about your business goals and capabilities.  Whether you are a new business seeking to develop the best plan or an established business which needs to take stock and devise one, GVI can assist you in this invaluable, crucial process.  We will assess your intended or current business mission, values, objectives, budget, organization, personnel, customers, marketing, competition, reputation, materials, distribution, and operations and help you lay the foundation for a successful organization.

GVI will work hand-in-hand with you, listen to your needs and tailor a plan (and a price) that aligns with your vision, goals, and budget.  We understand that every business and, therefore, every business plan is unique and GVI will help you apply wise business practices, in an organized fashion to develop your competitive edge in today’s diverse marketplace.

While plans differ as widely as the organizations that develop them, the following sample outline for the business plan of an international broadcast ministry should provide for you an overview of the kind of information that every successful plan should include.

• Statement of Purpose
• Executive Summary
• Market
  • Target Market
  • Industry Analysis
  • Competitive Analysis
  • SWOT Analysis
    • Strengths
    • Weaknesses
    • Opportunities
    • Threats
• The Organization
• Programming
  • Commercial Format
  • Semi-commercial Format
  • Sale of Signal
  • Viewer Supported
• Distribution
• Operations
• Marketing
• Task Outline
• Financial Data
• Appendices

Strategic Plans

Perhaps you do not need a full, organization-wide, business plan, but you could benefit from the assistance of a professional organization in developing new organization initiatives.  GVI specializes in the creation of Strategic Plans. A strategic plan shares many similarities with a business plan, but rather than addressing broad-organization objectives, it focuses in on a specific segment of your business, a new ministry goal, or a developing organizational objective.  The process for a strategic plan works much like that of the business plan, only on a more specific level.  GVI will work from the inside out, evaluating your current business mission, values, objectives, budget, organization, personnel, customers, marketing, competition, reputation, materials, distribution, and operations in light of the current market.  This evaluation will then be applied to the development of a creative and effective strategy works with your current processes and with your available financial and human resources to the development of your organizational objective.

Implementation Plans

Sometimes just knowing what you should do is not sufficient; you might also need to know how to execute it.  If we write a plan for you or you have an existing business or strategic plan, GVI can review the tasks on your plate and provide you with solid, objective information which produces achievable goals, budgets, and timetables for your “To Do” list.

Current Initiative Analysis and Evaluation

Consider this a checkup for your current business plan or any of its parts; projects; activities; workflow; departments; etc.  Wherever you are in the process, regardless of your state of certainty or concern, GVI can help!  We will review your current plan, suggest areas that need improvement, rewrite or amend plan sections, provide you with a task outline or a timeline, etc.  Schedule a “check-up” today!

Consulting

Interested in a new venture, but not sure how or where to start?  Have questions about services we provided for you or work performed on your behalf?  Not sure how you should proceed on a particular project or plan?  Wondering how a particular market sector will interpret a new pitch or product?  Don’t see what you want to accomplish anywhere on our site?  Give us a call.  We have a dedicated, creative, professional team and a network of qualified professionals ready and willing to help you and your business succeed.