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Case Prompt

As one of three management consultants with many years of experience, you have SET yourself the goal of founding your own management consultancy. The topics, contents and solution offering with which you can advise and support potential customers are clear. The legal company is already founded and registered in the commercial register. Now you must pitch your business plan to the banks to get the necessary start-up financing!


Especially the banks are interested in the underlying rationale of the SET Management Consulting business model. Your goal is to focus on explaining the revenue and cost streams as well as your KPIs for performance management.

 

With that, you have following assumptions in your business plan:

  • 10 consultants in total (including yourself)
  • Average yearly salary per consultant 100.000 € (fixed)
  • Average hourly rate as minimum pricing point that clients are willing to pay 250 €
  • Founding costs (e.g., legal fees etc.) 20.000 €
  • High-end IT equipment per consultant as invest 4.800€ (useful life 2 years)
  • No office in the start-up phase
  • Website + SEO 40.000 €

Case Assumptions

Please refer to the "Assumptions" illustration and try to think what is the revenue and what are the costs per month.

1. Which sales channels should we use to acquire new customers?

2. What kind of revenue models could we have?

3. When is the break-even point?

4. What are the KPI that we should focus on within consulting, especially at the early stages of the company?

5. There are a lot of to-dos within this start-up. What responsibilities and departments do you think are important at first (organizational structure)?

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