Business Plan - Organization Structure

The Organization structure has a special place in the business plan as it helps in projecting operating expenses. This is one of the key numbers in the financial statements, which Venture Capitalists scrutinize heavily. Thus a well-formed organization structure is essential for the business.

Every company is different, but it can be broadly classified to have four areas:

* Sales and Marketing
* Research and Development
* Production
* Administration

So lets define our Company's Organization Structure.

Organization Structure

BusinessWorks Inc. will have have following Organization Structure:

Sales and Marketing: This team will be responsible for marketing our RFID solutions. Team will be divided in two sub-groups: one will handle Customer relations, support and service. Initially we will have 5 employees in this sub-group. The other sub-group will be Application Consulting group. There will be 5 Application consultants, who will be experts in RFID, software and marketing. They will study the client application and suggest solutions to the customers.

Research and Development: This group will be developing the RFID solution itself. In this team, there will be 4 software engineers and 2 hardware engineers. Hardware group will be responsible for RFID and GPS equipment research, selection and operations. Software engineers will develop the middleware and interface with industry standard packages.

Production: Although we will be using market standard RFID and GPS equipment, 2 employees, 1 software engineer and 1 hardware engineer will be needed to to manage the software and hardware that is already developed.

Administration: This group of 3 employees will handle human resources, payroll, billing, accounts receivable and payables and miscellaneous tasks.

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