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📍For any successful business whose products or services are provided in the market sector, there is a basic additional influence on analyzing the market sector for the competitors and customers.

Therefore, Market analysis is an important process that is used for collecting data or information required for choosing the right product or the right service which will cater to the customers’ needs or preferences. By applying effective market analysis, basically helps in getting valuable insights into shifts in the economy, competitors, ongoing market trends, demographics, and the traits of customers’ expenditure. As the business is well established or running well, it is time for planning for reaching its maximum growth. After certain early stages, the businesses need to check the review of their business progress by identifying how much they can expect from the market position that has been established and decided for ongoing business activities. The business needs to keep revisiting and updating its business plan with new strategies and introducing new developments in the business platform.

• Business Analysis.

-::- Business Analysis refers to a disciplined approach that is used for introducing and managing the changes to the organizations, whether they are for-profit businesses, governments, or non-profits. It basically helps to identify and articulate the need for changes in the organization's work, and facilitating the change in the business. Being the business analyst, we need to identify and define the solutions which will help in maximizing the value delivered by the business organization to its stakeholders. They basically work across all levels of the organizations and are involved from defining strategy to creating the enterprise architecture, taking leadership roles by defining the business goals and requirements for the business programs, and supporting continuous improvement in its technology and processes.

• Importance of reviewing your business platform.

-::- When you are running your business platform, it could pay dividends by thinking more about the longer-term and the strategic planning.
By reviewing your business progress, it will basically help you for understanding:-

1.The uncertainty about the business performance.

2.Ensuring about the market opportunities in the business platform.

3.Whether the business planning is updated or not before trading.

4.Whether the business is moving in the right direction or not.

▫️Assessing the business performance should be an ongoing process as it helps in identifying the areas that are needed for improving the business platform before it causes major issues in the business growth.

In any business, measurement is a part of the business sector since investors decide whether the business is applicable for investing or not for a particular company based on the business performance, and publicly held companies are required to disclose their financial performance so that the investors could make more informed decisions. Thus, the overall performance of the business is basically defined by its financial measures.

• Few steps the business should go for assessing the business performance by highlighting those areas for improvements:-

1.Assessing the business core activities.

-::- The businesses need to review their business platform by evaluating business core activities, the products that have been made, or services that are provided to the customers. Businesses need to know what makes their business successful, improved or whether it is important for launching new products or services or not.

2.Assessing the business efficiency.

-::- Many new businesses basically work for a short-term period which basically offers flexibility and also cost, time, and money as the business keeps moving forward by concentrating on growing and developing its platform by balancing its business ability for responding rapidly with a clear overall strategy. There are certain internal factors that hold back the business performance such as -

📍If we move the business premises, what will be the cost? Will there be long-term cost savings and improvements in inefficiency?

📍If we manufacture the products, how modern is the business equipment?

📍Do we have the right people to achieve our business objectives?

3.Reviewing the financial position of the business.

-::- Sometimes, businesses fail due to a lack of poor financial management or planning. Therefore, we need to develop and implement the financial and management systems which are important for business success by updating our original business plan with a good start. By reviewing the business finances, we need to consider the certain finances of the business:-

a) Cash flow - It is the balance of all the money flowing in and out of your business. The business needs to forecast regularly and keep updating the cash flow of the business.

b) Cost base - We need to keep our costs under constant review for ensuring that the costs are covered in our sale price.

c) Growth - Does the business have proper planning for adapting their financing in order to accommodate their business' changing needs or not?

4. Conducting competitor analysis.

-::- The business will probably have a clear idea of their competitors while running their business. Gathering more information could be more time-consuming, and effortless, but there are certain benefits for knowing more about their business competition by knowing about the types of competitor’s which will be useful for our business depending on the types of business they are running and the market they are operating. The questions about the competitors can be:-

📍Who are the competitors and what they are offering?

📍How the competitors price their products?

📍What are the profiles and numbers of their customers are in comparison to our business?

📍What are their competitive advantages and disadvantages in comparison to our business?

5. Conducting a customer and market analysis.

-::- When the business platform starts to perform, we need to devise a marketing plan for overall business planning for defining the market in which we offer to sell by targeting the nature and geographical distribution of our customers, and by that strategy, we basically produce the marketing plan for meeting the business objectives. When the business' performance is reviewed, they need to assess their customer’s base and market position of the business process. Thus, the business review basically offers the opportunity to stand back from the activity outlined in the business plan and have a brief on the certain factors:-

📍Changes in the market sector.

📍New and emerging services.

📍Changes in the customers' needs.

📍Changes in the external factors like the economy, imports, and new technology. Getting customer feedback on the business' performance will basically help for identifying the improvements that need to be made for the products or services for the business procedures.

6. Using different models for strategic analysis of the business system.

-::- There are certain business analysis models that help to think more strategically about the business platform.
📍The SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats)- Basically involves the strengths and weaknesses of the business' capabilities and any opportunities and threats to the business. The business identifies all of these, they easily capitalize their strengths, minimizes the effects of their business weaknesses, making the most of any opportunities, and reducing the impact of any threats in the business. Sometimes, the opportunities can be threats and threats can also be opportunities. The swot analysis basically provides a clear basis for examining the business performance and prospects and using it for regulating the review process or in preparation for raising finance or bringing in consultants for a review.

📍Steeple analysis - It is a technique that is used for understanding the various external influences of the business such as social, technological, economic, environmental, political, legal, and ethical functions of the business.

📍Scenario planning - It is a technique that is used for building up various plausible views of possible futures for a business.

📍Critical success factor analysis - It is a technique that is used for identifying the areas in which the business can succeed in order to achieve its objectives.

📶 Businesses which are basically seeking for a competitive edge could easily get more benefit by undertaking different analysis of the business platform. The information generated from analyzing the business will basically help in understanding the needs to do in order to be a more successful and profitable venture. However, the business is new or old, analyzing the business platform will help the owners and managers to achieve a better understanding of their business progress.

📌 Sources:- 📤📫

• https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180801005423/en/Importance-of-Market-Analysis-in-Improving-Business-Growth---Infiniti-Research
• https://www.infoentrepreneurs.org/en/guides/review-your-business-performance/
• https://www.iiba.org/professional-development/career-centre/what-is-business-analysis/