11 Must Have Slides in your Business Operational Challenges PowerPoint Deck

Take your organization in the right direction with a well-designed Business Operational Plan. Operational Plan helps you clearly define your vision, set objectives and targets for the company, and strategize marketing and other plans to make the vision a reality.

Business Operational Plan comprises few steps that act as a guide to the senior managers. These steps will help you go through the obstacles and hindrances you may face while reaching your goals. Here we are going to show some of the operational challenges that come in the way of the business and how to deal with them.

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1) Operational Highlights:

With the help of this introductory slide, mention the key Operational Highlights of your company. Add components like production capacity of the company, decreased productivity, lack of effective human workforce and more. Illustrate the problem or convey the challenges your company is facing in one slide.

2) Partnering & Alliance Challenges:

In order to execute the right strategy for optimizing the relationship with your partners, identify the gaps that need to be bridged and look for the desired outcomes by negotiating with each one of them. Also analyze & showcase the cost benefit analysis of the partnership by incorporating this slide in your presentation.

3) Risk Associated with Strategic Alliances:

Handling multiple partnerships effectively at once is always a tough nut to crack. With the help of this slide, demonstrate the various kinds of risk which your company might face with your alliances such as Surge Capacity Risk, Financial Viability Risk, and Coordination Risk etc. Use this slide so that your company is ready with the mitigation strategies.

4) Organizational Set up Challenges:

Planning the investment is one difficult job. To minimize the risk of losing any money, use this slide while investing in Fixed Assets. Fixed Assets mainly covers Plant & Machinery, Land & Building and more. They demand huge amount of capital. Therefore, you have got to be careful while investing. Add this slide and present it along with the key rationale.

5) Operational Setup – Risk & Mitigation:

Invest good amount of time in analyzing the risk which are associated in organizing an operational setup. So, conduct a proper due-diligence as this decision will definitely have an impact on company's mission & vision.

6) Customer Service Related Challenges:

How efficient a company’s support team is and what sort of questions it can handle from the customers are few challenges that company may face. Client service employees are the front face of the company. To avoid the flow between the customers and client service team, consider all the obstacles. Use this slide to answer few of the questions so that the team is ready with any kind of the situation.

7) Risk Mitigation Strategies for Customer Service:

Some service challenges are more common than the others, so for that scripted answers can work up to a certain point, but there are some queries that your team would have to answer on their own which can only be resolved by gaining sufficient knowledge & expertise in their field.

8) Risk Associated with Sales & Marketing:

This kind of risk certainly impacts the top-line of a company's income statement. This includes risks associated with an opportunity, account or broad risks that impact the entire pipeline. Careful and systematic analysis, experience and study of competitors’ techniques help in minimizing the risks associated with sales and marketing.

9) Changes in Competitive Environment:

A company must understand its competitive advantage and build a strategy that takes into account the competitive landscape. So, this can be achieved by comparing the feature of the product lines, understanding their target segment, how they have positioned themselves in the market etc.

10) Key Performance Indicators:

This slide gives a nice analysis of the Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), Net Promoter Score, Sales lost to active customers and more. This particular KPI metric can help you calculate your business profit or loss. Explain each point and analyze where you are lacking behind.

11) Operating Plan:

Based on all the challenges, risks and their mitigation strategies, showcase the summary of your strategy in this slide and present your plan in an effective manner.

Create a useful operational plan for your business that helps you cross all the possible bumps and help you reach your destination in a simpler and easier way.