Business Plan
Business Plan
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
BUSINESS PLAN:
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Content
Contents
1. Introduction.....................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Project Description...............................................................................................................3
1.3. NATURE OF THE COMPANY.............................................................................................3
1.4. STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL NEED.................................................................................3
1.5. STATEMENT OF CONFIDETIALITY OF REPORT...........................................................3
2. Executive summary........................................................................................................................3
2.1. Industrial Analysis...................................................................................................................4
2.2. Analysis of Competitors..........................................................................................................4
2.3. Strength................................................................................................................................4
2.4. Weakness.............................................................................................................................4
2.5. Opportunities......................................................................Error! Bookmark not defined.
2.6. Hazard:...............................................................................Error! Bookmark not defined.
2.7. Description of project Service.................................................................................................5
2.8. PRODUCTION PLAN............................................................................................................7
2.9. Marketing Plan.........................................................................................................................8
2.10. Pricing....................................................................................................................................8
4.3 Place..........................................................................................................................................8
4.4 Distribution Strategy.................................................................................................................9
4.5 Target Market Strategy...........................................................Error! Bookmark not defined.
6. Financial Plan.................................................................................................................................9
6.1 Sources of finance.....................................................................................................................9
7. Organizational plan.......................................................................................................................12
7.1 Form of ownership..................................................................Error! Bookmark not defined.
7.2 Authority of ownership...........................................................................................................12
7.3 Risk assessment......................................................................................................................12
7.4 internal rate of return /IRR/....................................................................................................12
Appendix...........................................................................................................................................13
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1. Introduction
Dynamic computer training center established to overcome the absence of such type of service
center in this area. This business center provides different juice for JIMMA town society and
Wollega University society. It serves as entertainment area for community especially for
University student and it also contribute for the development of Nekemte town. Basically this
business is believed to reduce unemployment by creating job opportunity for many people.
2. Executive summary
Dynamic computer training center is a partnership form of project which owned by Yohannes,
Hika, Megersa, Tadelech&.Chaltu
Unlike other typical computer training center will provide unique services with highly professional
that have a BA. degree personnel in addition to search internet service, basic computer training,
and the like.
To start this project we will loan 30% of the requirement from commercial bank of Ethiopia and
the rest 70% is covered by the partners.
We have planned to employee more than 50 permanent and contract workers.
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The services that we will provide include internet services, computer training and photocopy
services, maintenance services and others.
Dynamic computer training center is answer to get the real knowledge about computers training in
order to be the member of globalization.
It gives much access to the user
Access to fairly cost, they can afford and in such a way that are not socially and economically as
well as culturally isolated.
To quality service and get pleasure, enjoy high satisfactory and teaching
The location of our business is comfortable for our customer to easily penetrate in the market
To teach the basic skill of computer and internet knowledge in order to produce a moderate know
Dynamic computer training center goal is to provide services for social, economical, cultural, for
the society and the university community as a whole.
3. Industrial Analysis
It is important to put new venture in the proper context. In a particular venture will be assessed by
the potentials investor on a number of criteria one which is the industry in which the entrepreneur
will be computing. The future trade of this company is to provide unique service for the society in
the technological way and to make a well known business center with an international standard.
There is no competitors that matches with us there are some centers that have the same name
internet and computer center but they only giveservices like printing, writing that but our business
center is not such like that it gives a vast and a big knowledge for customer with a fair and easy
cost.
Strength
We will have personalized and good approach and services to our consumers. Also we are local
business to understand the targeted customer need.
Our emphasis is on the quality of services, and good markets allows potentially high markup. We
have excellent premises and new equipment, flexible with the technologies change and low
running cost. This new technologies advancement allows us to adjust our services as to the
customers need.
Weakness
This are thing that our bossiness is not good so we found out that the weakness of our new venture
lack of finance in order to advertise our services to our customer, lack of supplies, and lack of
experienced worker.
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3.3 Market Segment
Dynamic computer training center will focus on the following segments. These segments are more
interesting than other groups because they have the specific computer training needs Dynamic
computer training center intends to meet.
Microsoft Training for more 500 company employees.
Training society in different aspects.
Training physicians in specific specialties to use their patient management software.
Training people on how to get the most from the Internet.
Training business people on how to keep up with their websites, from e-mail management to web
page creation and getting information from face book.
Training office personnel on how to use Microsoft Office or other office packages.
Training the first-time computer owner on how to use their home PC.
4Training sales managers on how to use database software to track their sales and marketing
functions.
Training individuals who are looking for better employment on how to use the latest software
packages.
The training computer center has four phasesuch as phase one, phase two, phase three and phase
four
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4.2. Size of the project
Keeping in mind the fact that our project center provides many services, it is easy to that the
project requires a large number of employees and a variety of recourse. We have planed to
employee about 50% of temporary and permanent employee different material and equipment
computer infrastructure that are a need for proper running of the project. In summary our project a
medium size project and we will have plan to expand to large in size expand our branch to other
place and increase the services to in different towards/perspectives like
Total 90000
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4.4 Background of the entrepreneur
Dynamics computer traning center like other types of computer center will provide a unqui service
with highly profetionaltha have BA degree personnel in additon to serch internet service.
4.5 Location of the business
Dynamic traning computer center where tranning other service shal take place shall be located in
Wollega University, Nekemte town 331KM away from A.A
5. Production plann
5.1 Production process
Dynamics computer tranning center will offer the following tranningassement micro soft office
based computer tranning word processing soft ware, power point presentation soft
wareaccessdatabase/customer records software,excel spread sheet,publisher desktop, outlook
email, front page webpage development and internet online technology.
5.2 Physical plant
Dynamic computer training center consist of the following facility,
1. Office skill testing, telephone, customer service, call center testing
2. Office management testing, computer literacy testing
5.3 Equipment and machinery
Microsoft office use specialist microshare family authorized, word processing software,access
data base, excel spreadsheet
Our project creates a job opportunity more than 50 permanent and contract employee. According
to our plan we will employee in the following area:
Manager
Secretaries
Computer operator and maintenance
Photo copy worker
Trainer
Guard
Guest receivers
Laminator & Binder
Network operator
Play station workers
User assistant/help desk
Information desk
Cash Receiver
In addition, we have planned to pay for mentioned employees depending on our size business on
scale of our company and in negotiation. Also, we have planned to award motivation for diligent,
honesty, hard workers and punctual employee at the end of the year.
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6. Marketing Plan
The full marketing plan of our project will publish later on and placed on our project center and
promotion areas and Medias. Our project is designed to provide quality service and keeping our
customers entertained and satisfied by our service. Also our customer entertained in our
entertainment sections (playing station and computer game) until they got other services.in order to
stay competitor with our new project we following key points.
6.1. Pricing
Pricing is one of the marketing plans that should be changed for services taken by a customer.
According to our project we impose reasonable pricing that all of our customers. That means the
price is not as such high or low when we compare to our competitors.
We have also planned to provide the service in the following average prices
Services Price
1. Internet service----------------------------10cents/minute
2. Photocopy----------------------------------0.50 cent/page
3. Printing-------------------------------------2 cent/page
4. Typing/secretarial service----------------2.5 birr/page
5. Computer game---------------------------5.00 birr/hour
6. Play station--------------------------------2.00 birr/game
7. Computer training------------------------300 birr/month
8. Computer lent-----------------------------50 birr
9. Maintenance-------------------------------variable depending on problem
10. laminating----------------------------------4.00 birr/page/A4 size paper
11. binding--------------------------------------7.00 birr/size
12. publication--------------------------------- vary depending on the format
Generally, the price may decrease or increase depending on the total marketing of our suppliers.
But we try to satisfy our customers by not increasing the price.
6.2 Promotion
We have planned to use three types of promotion Medias. Those types of advertisement Medias
are in the local country of TV, radio and website advertisement. Then will be advertise in the
beginning telling the people what we are and where they can get /find us. After the business runs
for longer time it will advertise that, what new services are included and other issues in related
pricing. We will also run some special pricing with advertisements. All of these to make
consumers aware of us and to hope fully increase our sale. For this promotion purpose, we have
budgeted 30000 birr.
6.3 Place
Since Dynamic computer training center is found in front of municipality and this creates good for
us in order to be profitable.
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6.4 Distribution Strategy
The training distribution will begin with first completing a needs assessment on the customer.
Once the customer has been assessed they will be placed in a class that meets their assessment
needs. Once the customer completes the class, they will again be assessed and go through an
outcome procedure. The customer then has the choice of going up to the next level. If a customer
chooses to dropout, they can return and be tested and placed again. The following distribution tools
will be used to aid in our classroom delivery:
Printed material
Instructor-led classroom presentation
CD-ROM
Internet
Professional Speakers
Tours/Field Trips
7.Financial plan
7.1 Sources of finance
In order to find the initial requirements of the business we would require the following financing.
Management team
Theirs responsibility
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Effects of change
Compitition
IRR measures the worthiness of an investment, i.e. it is the rate of return from investment. Internal
rate of return is used to find the worthiness of an investment proposal by comparing it to the
company’s cost of capital. IRR should be greater than that of cost of capital.
IRR for 1st year = net income /expense = 273202 /126070
= 2.17%
If the IRR is increase, the acceptance of the given project will be increased so, the 1 st year
operation is feasible
IRR for 2nd year = 309,797/136,390
2.27
The 2nd year IRR is greater than that of the 1 st year .this shows that, our project will be successful
in the coming year.
8.5 Contingency plan
Should the demand for training computer center decrease wich does not require much additional
training that will bebad for our businness so that the threat that will find in ournew venture
Appendix
The total area of dynamic computer provides 10m*15m=150m2
The area of training and computer storage area.
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Market research
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