Marriott Consulting provides expert senior consultants on-site who have the templates and processes to assure planning success. The CEO has the responsibility for assuring the operating and financial success promised in the VC Business Plan. The CEO's Business Plan is the company's best effort to reflect the past, present and future company look. The VC due diligence should disclose dreams and realities clearly. Everyone at this point is a self-appointed expert planner, with varying degrees of talent and real interest.
Planning often ends the day cash is received from the investors.
It takes seconds to put The Plan on the shelf. A living, breathing document working for the VC's special interest. VCPA includes a process of tracking the KPIs, where the company provides meaningful, timely, continuous reporting that begins with the creation of the Business Plan and doesn't end there. The investor is responsible for providing funds on schedule and the company is responsible for establishing, then accomplishing its planned performance standards on schedule. The Business Plan needs to be tied to individual employee Performance Objectives.