Business support services
Business Planning & Analysis
A unique service that President of the Mk2 Business Solutions provides to clients is focused on assisting start up companies with their business planning needs. This can be as simple as pointing you in the right direction for registration and resources or as complex as walking you through every step from starting your business to launching your first product. Services that we are able to provide are as follows.
Registration, Store Design, Forecasting, Process Design, Planning for Efficiency, Marketing Strategy, Feasibility, Merchandising and more. Our experience in these areas include many years in retail management, retail merchandising & the management of our own company. We are available for consultation for any aspect of your business needs, as a client of Mk2 Business Solutions we believe that if you don't succeed then we won't succeed, it is our commitment to help you be successfully in your business venture.View our testimonials to see what our clients are saying about us. For more information please contact us for your FREE consultation.
Using our experience and knowledge we can help you plan your online marketing campaign through social networking using sites such as facebook, myspace, twitter, linkedin and more. We include with every project an initial marketing campaign by sharing the new website through our network of followers and businesses.
Startup companies can come in all forms, including those that are simply life-style companies, but the phrase "startup company" is often associated with high growth, technology oriented companies. Investors are generally most attracted to those new companies distinguished by their risk/reward profile and scalable. That is, they have lower bootstrapping costs, higher risk, and higher potential return on investment. Successful startups are typically more scalable than an established business, in the sense that they can potentially grow rapidly with limited investment of capital, labor or land.
Startups enjoy several unique options for funding. Venture capital firms and angel investors may help startup companies begin operations, exchanging cash for an equity stake. In practice though, many startups are initially funded by the founders themselves. Factoring is another option, though not unique to start ups.
A critical task in setting up a business is to conduct research in order to validate, assess and develop the ideas or business concepts in addition to opportunities to establish further and deeper understanding on the ideas or business concepts as well as their commercial potential.
Project Management
President Matthew Paul Chitty is very Analytical and Empathetic which gives him a unique edge when planning projects. His ability to analyze procedures and process and find ways to make them more efficient is a great asset. The efficiency of our in house projects and client work stems from the processes that Matthew has implemented in the company.
Effective planning and developing streamlined procedures is at the heart of any successful business venture. The S.M.A.R.T.E.R system for planning is just one of the practices that we implement when planning out any project or redesigning a procedure to increase efficiency. For more information or to begin planning your project please contact us for your FREE consultation.
- Specific,
- Measurable (or at least evaluable) achievement,
- Achievable (recently Acceptable is used regularly as well),
- Realistic (given the current state of organizational resources) and
- Time terminated (bounded).
- Ethical
- Recorded
Project Management is the business process of creating a unique product, service or result. A project is a finite endeavor having specific start and completion dates undertaken to create a quantifiable deliverable. Projects undergo progressive elaboration by developing in steps and predictable increments that are tied to benchmarks, milestones and completion dates. This finite characteristic of projects stands in sharp contrast to processes, or operations, which are permanent or semi-permanent functional work to repetitively produce the same product or service. In practice, the management of these two systems is often found to be quite different, and as such requires the development of distinct technical skills and the adoption of a separate management philosophy.
The primary challenge of Project Management is to achieve all of the goals of the project charter while adhering to three out of the four classic project constraints sometimes referred to as the "triple constraints." The four constraints are defined as scope, time, cost and quality.