Structure!

Effective Structure Plan to Develop Your Business Idea Span.

ShqairCom
The Canadian Way
5 min readApr 2, 2024

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Business ideas are the basis of any successful enterprise, and they must be clear, concise, and powerful to attract, convince, and motivate people with different interests. A business idea for a kindergarten located within universities and colleges, featuring a real-time child monitoring application for parents and others to monitor and watch their kids using Android and Apple (IOS) smartphones, will be presented and applied through a structured plan.

The Business Idea Social and Technological Aspects

  1. Social Side: This business idea would help working mothers and others manage their time more effectively to achieve and continue their educational goals.

2. Technological Side: The business idea would use a smartphone app, allowing parents and others to monitor their children from a close distance.

The kindergarten business idea at hand is both simple and innovative. It addresses a real need in the market, and it has the potential for success.

Structure Plan

Any business idea requires an effective structure plan to be applied practically. The structured plan assesses the potential success of the business idea in practice. This structured plan consists of four major steps and business models.

Step one:

A) Competition Chain Model

The competition chain model is a business marketing framework that analyzes the competitive environment of a particular industry. It consists of four stages:

1. Attraction: Where potential customers are introduced to the business idea.

2. Commitment: When potential customers become committed to the business idea and purchase the product or service.

3. Launch: Where the business launches a product or service and makes it available to customers.

4. Sustain: How the business idea is attracting and retaining customers.

Applying the business idea to the competitive chain framework:

Attraction: The business idea will attract working mothers and others because it allows them to pursue their educational goals while having their children close and monitored.

Commitment: The business idea will generate commitment from working mothers and others because it would save them time and effort.

Launch: Universities and colleges, where potential customers and others will attend their education.

Sustain: By charging parents and others a monthly fee for the kindergarten childcare and child monitoring app services.

The business idea has a potential success factor at each stage of the competition chain model to ensure the viability of the business idea.

Step two:

B) Strategy Using the Market Research Process

Market research is a systematic approach that collects and analyzes market data, assesses the market potential for a new business idea, identifies target customers, and develops marketing strategies.

A brief overview of the market research process and applying it in practice:

1. Define the problem or opportunity: In this case, the problem is working mothers and others who want to continue their education. Those customers often have difficulty finding affordable and convenient childcare that has the feature of an app monitor.

2. Collect data: Through primary research ( e.g., surveys, interviews, focus groups ) and secondary research ( e.g., industry reports, government data, etc ).

3. Analyze the data: Once collected, analyze to identify trends and patterns through statistical or qualitative analysis.

4. Develop recommendations: The final step is developing recommendations based on the market research findings to inform business decisions, such as product or service development, pricing, and marketing strategies.

Step three:

C) Marketing Mix: Business Concept and strategy

The marketing mix is an effective marketing strategy consisting of four key marketing channels called the 4Ps, abbreviations for product, price, place, and promotion, to penetrate and interact with the market for customer engagement and awareness.

Applying the Marketing Mix:

The product is a kindergarten service with a child monitoring app feature.

The price has to be competitive with other kindergartens in the area outside of the business idea locations.

The place would be inside universities and college campuses.

The promotion would focus on reaching out to working mothers and others to inform them about the new kindergarten service, such as university and college news, websites, and social media.

Step four:

D) Information Pyramid Framework

The information pyramid is a framework to evaluate the success of a business idea. It consists of four levels:

1. The sales level is a measure of the overall income that the business produces.

2. The profitability level measures the business’s generated profit.

3. The market share level measures the percentage of the market that the business controls.

4. The customer satisfaction level measures how happy customers are with the business.

Applying The Information Pyramid:

The kindergarten at universities and colleges business idea has the potential for success at each level of the information pyramid:

The business could generate significant sales by charging parents and others a monthly fee for the kindergarten service and the app monitor.

The business could be very profitable because the fixed costs would be low, such as rent, salaries, app purchase expenses, etc.

The percentage level of market share can be high because of the location of the business idea inside universities and colleges and the high demand for childcare services among working mothers and others who want to continue their education.

Customers should be satisfied with the business because it will add value to working mothers and others, such as saving time and effort.

Having the kids close by and monitoring them is the ultimate and priceless peace of mind any parent can have.

Don’t you agree?!

Summary

Business ideas must be clear, concise, and powerful to attract, convince, and motivate people with different interests. Success doesn’t just depend on a groundbreaking idea. It demands a structured plan and comprehensive approach to examining the internal and external factors in practice in a practical manner.

Note: This structured plan can be applied to any business idea.

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ShqairCom
The Canadian Way

I have an MBA from the University of Jordan with more than 20 years of experience in the work environment and academics as a private business management tutor.