Business Planning

Insight & Recommendations

• Market insight – Original market research to investigate purchase intention, price thresholds prioritise target market segments and explore product features
• Financial insight – Forecasting is never easy but BSI applies a fact based approach to estimating market size, take-up rates, market share and pricing to provide a realistic financial forecast. Project sponsors and investors need to know funding requirements, breakeven points and sensitivity of the forecast to key assumptions so we build models that are flexible and easy to manage
• Strategic recommendations – Growing companies confront an enormous range of choices, often with limited information. These early decisions shape your company or project and you need to ensure that your probability of success is always maximised. Strategic recommendations come from analysis and experience that complements business intuition.
• Value proposition insight – Selling strategically requires insight into the competitive landscape and your company’s unique features, be they technological or commercial. Today, many companies have only a few key clients and early impressions define the relationship. BSI helps analyse your value proposition and works together with your team to define how to present yourself to the market.
• Business planning – Bringing all your strategies and plans into a single document that is practical, easy to communicate and offers clarity is critical. Business planning involves translating the high level vision into day-to-day plan that gets the whole teal working to the same agenda. Moreover, it is this document that often keeps investors and maintain appraised of your progress so it needs to be feasible and flexible.

Corporate Finance

• Project and business funding – Every endeavour requires funding whether it comes from a budget allocation or shareholders. BSI understands the process, documentation and issues involved in securing funds through the experienced gained in raising funds for out own business and for our clients.
• Merger and acquisition advice – Business growth regularly involves alliances, mergers and acquisitions. BSI’s team has extensive experience in the process of analysing, planning and executing transactions of this kind. We offer fresh perspectives, innovative structures and assistance in analysing the many alternative approaches that invariably emerge through these activities.
• Business and project Valuations – Many finding transactions involve placing an acceptable valuation on the company. Similarly, management needs to make budget decisions based on the expected value of a project. In both cases the model needs to be robust, fact-based and sufficiently flexibly to allow all parties to understand the impact of key assumptions

Growth Assistance

Business network – One way to accelerate business growth is through a network that is alert to new market opportunities. BSI believes in collaboration to achieve successful outcomes whether raising funds, sourcing product or making sales. We are always discrete and professional but actively help connect organisations that we believe will benefit from working together.

Training – Entrepreneurs and business professional can always expand their capabilities by learning from one another and through practical case study based programs. BSI has developed the “Expanding Entrepreneurial Capability” training program from growth oriented business professionals in small and medium sized companies.