What You Will Learn at Strategic Business Planning & Management

Discover a strategic business planning & management process developed especially for the civil works construction industry. Click to Enlarge

Take a look at some of what you will learn about strategic business planning and manage-ment during this fast-paced, full-day seminar.

The Big Picture:

• The nature of strategic business planning.
• The underlying business framework in civil works construction.
• The 3 big parts of the SBPM System.
• The 3 broad questions your plan should answer.
• How to assess your current status.
• How to document your plan.
• How to model and test your plan.
• How to implement and maintain your plan.
• How to manage day-to-day operations to achieve planned objectives.

Vital Principles:

• What strategic planning is NOT.
• The "project management" approach to planning - refined.
• The 8 stages of the project centric bid-build construction cycle.
• The 7 core business functions that must be in place to effectively handle business transactions.
• The core processes involved in the "bid-build" construction cycle.
• The vital organizational roles that must be filled to succeed.
• The 6 business elements you must asses.
• The 5 phases of the planning process.
• The 6 levels of a strategic business plan and the questions each answers.
• The 5 business elements that must be continuously assessed.
• The 7 rules to follow to ensure that your strategic business plan becomes a reality.
• The 5 results to expect of your plan.
• The change equation.

Critical Guidelines:

• How to assess your jobs.
• How to assess your market.
• How to assess your financial statements.
• How to assess your estimating accuracy, bidding history and markup strategy.
• How to assess your key business practices.
• How to assess your current organization and identify gaps and overlaps.
• How to assess your fleet's composition and charge rate accuracy.
• How to structure your business plan so that it results in ACTION.
• How to model and forecast financial results to test plan alternatives.
• How to develop "standards of success" that keep operations on track.

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Grantlun provides business management training & construction management seminars in subjects central to successful construction enterprise management.