Strategic Planning

Preparing Your Business for Tough Times

In today’s uncertain economic landscape, preparing your business for tough times is essential for resilience and growth. Discover key strategies and insights to fortify your business against challenges, ensuring it not only survives but thrives in the face of adversity.

Competitive Challenges

The increasingly complex factors of competition in today’s economy have dramatic effects on the way organizations are structured and developed. Organizations that do not plan lose their ability to cope with change and that factor alone is often the determining factor in their continued success. Banks & Associates can analyze the development needs of your company and help you meet the challenges of today’s dynamic marketplace.

Most small business owners think strategic planning is for “big business” and are very good at carrying the plan in their heads. The fact is employees aren’t mind readers and a documented plan is basic for growth and essential for successful execution.

Planning Excellence

Our Strategic Planning Services

Our strategic planning services are designed to empower your business with a clear vision and a roadmap to success. From annual business planning to strategic profit planning, we offer a range of services that cater to various aspects of your business’s growth and sustainability. Our experienced team also provides invaluable guidance for family-owned and closely-held businesses, ensuring a legacy of success.
This service is designed to help clients develop a planning process and a written business plan to direct their efforts or operations for a period of one year. Business planning is a key management tool to help an organization identify its future direction and how it intends to reach its objectives and goals.
Because of our accounting background, we help clients look forward to the future, rather than just analyzing historical data. We are committed to helping our clients become even more profitable. Through workshops, interviews, and a complete assessment, we help your company identify opportunities to enhance your bottom line. By selecting the team of experts that have direct experience with your circumstances, we can offer you a complete solution.

Whether your company is a startup or a mature competitor dominating your market, the identification of key competitors, marketplace characteristics, key result areas, performance standards, cash flow forecasts, and capital needs is an absolute must in today’s business environment.

Services include:

  • Mission and Vision Definition
  • Competitive Position
  • Future Opportunities and New Directions
  • Strengths and Weaknesses of the Management Team
  • Organizational Needs Assessment

Small businesses drive the heart of the US economy. Ninety-five percent of all U.S. businesses are family-owned and operated, but 70% of all family businesses fail to make the transition from first to second generation.

We assist with:

  • Succession planning
  • Organizational structure
  • Competence issues
  • Communications
  • Strategic direction
  • Human resource planning

Formally assessing your brand and company messaging gives you a broader overview of your company’s performance and positioning.

A brand audit is a detailed analysis that identifies, through research and metrics, how well your brand is performing compared stated objectives, and to then also check how successfully that performance positions you in the market.

The methodology employed can differ depending on industries and individual companies, but the audit process typically involves internal analysis of brand values and attributes, voice, culture, USP, product, etc. as well as an external assessment of logo, messaging, website, advertising,
social media, sponsorships, event displays, content marketing and more.

A brand audit will help you:

  • Establish the performance of your brand
  • Discover your strengths and weaknesses
  • Align your strategy more closely with the expectations of your customers

 

Understand your place in the market compared to the competition

Industries we serve

Healthcare

Many medical professionals and auxiliary service providers do not have the time (or desire) to implement operational processes and procedures.  B&A understands insurance complexity and the financial implications.

Small Manufacturing

Whether you’re a small manufacturer providing products to another industry sector or to sell to the general public, we have the tools to assist you with inventory, purchasing, and processing efficiency.  From nuts and bolts to screen printing, we’ve got you covered.

No matter what the industry, B&A has extensive experience with small business, especially those who wish to grow.  We understand the difficulties a business owner faces from building a team to “doing the books”.

Growing Small Businesses

Our consultants have years of experience in this broad category that includes property preservation, poultry farm construction, home building and real estate based financing.

Construction & Real Estate