Suppliers will not ship items on time. If they do, they may send the wrong type or number. Employees may quit after you have trained them but before you open for business. Your business should be based on good ideas. Yet ideas alone will not assure success.
Timing is important, too.
You need to be sure that you open your business at the right time of year. A timetable will increase the probability that the right things happen at the right time. Many new businesses start off on the wrong foot because their managers forget to do something or they miss a deadline. For example, many firsttimers miss having their businesses listed in the phone book and yellow pages. The phone book may be distributed each summer, but the deadline for finalizing your contract and providing your yellow pages layout may be in January or February.