Task 4c

Functional Activities

Functional activities are a very important part of creating a successful business plan, as they are the different departments within the business that make it operate effectively. Since a business plan is a tool to help achieve the business aims and objectives by creating steps to how the business is going to achieve these. Functional activities must be considered in the plan as these departments must work together in order for it to achieve its goals and how they do this must be thought about and described in the plan in order for the business plan to achieve its businesses aims and objectives. The business functions are the key part to how successful a business is.

The functional activities within a business contributes to the business plan achieving the business aims and objectives as every aspect of the business must be covered in great depth. The plan is how the business is going to operate and how it intends to do this. In order for the plan to be successful each department need to be thought about in much detail separately, and how it is going to operate to its full potential. After this has been done, the plan then needs to inform the reader how it intends to work as a whole and contribute to the different departments in order for the business to be a success. This will then allow the creator of the plan to work out how he/she is going to manage each area and what additional skills are required for this to be done properly.

For Mad Wells business it will operate all departments in one as it will not have that many functions. Simply because the business is a small enterprise selling a single product.

In addition an organisation functions work together to help the business to achieve its aims and objectives. For a business plan to be a successful tool in helping the business achieves these goals. The functional activities must be considered greatly, assets and thought about in the plan to show that they will help the function work at its best. The functions contribute to the plan as they are the business itself so this is what the plan is about. The plan should define the functions and the communication and control lines associated with the plan of action and operation of the company.

The functional departments contribute to a business plan as the cost of operating them need to be considered, as well as how many sales the business need to make to breakeven is part of the sales function and how they are going to achieve that figure. Every part of the business plan is goals that one of the departments needs to achieve. How they intend to do this is up to the business managers and needs to be thought about when producing the plan realistically, to make sure each department dose what is necessary to make sure targets are met.

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The businesses objectives are drill down in a business plan to decide what functions are necessary to allow the business to achieve them and which ones are needed for the business to operate. The achievement of theses objectives would be carried out in these functions by the employees. The number of these employers will be decided within the plan. A business plan is all about planning how the business is going to work and finding routes for the businesses functions to achieve its aims and objectives. For example market research might find new ways to increase sale figures etc.

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