This diploma thesis deals with possibility of a Czech company to enter Slovak market. The company specializes in production and distribution of pub quizzes. Aim of the thesis is to evaluate whether entering Slovak market would be profitable or not. This possibility is judged on the basis of a comprehensive business plan. The theoretical part characterizes individual parts of a business plan in general. The practical part follows up specific parts of the business plan in question. The final part includes evaluation of the business plan and provides recommendation together with final decision about its realization.

Companies have a need to internationalize and locate all over the world to gain advantages against competition. However, when companies internationalize, they face difficulties. One of the major difficulties is how they can reach the same high quality around the world in their business facilities. Over one third of all construction projects reporting major defects. The purpose of this thesis is to research how companies implement Quality Management in offshore construction projects, what are the common challenges related to the subject and how to overcome these challenges. The theoretical framework for the study is gathered from academic literature. The thesis uses a qualitative research approach. The primary data is gathered through interviews and observations that are conducted on an offshore construction site. The case study in this thesis researches how a multinational company handles Quality Management in an offshore construction project.  The company’s Quality Management guidelines and practices have been established in Europe, whereas the location and context of this study is in Southeast-Asia. The difference in business context and cultures causes additional challenges in implementing Quality Management in the project. After analyzing the data, the company’s Quality Management practices are compared to suggested practices in the academic literature. These suggestions can be valid for other multinational companies that are expanding to different continents. The results show that when companies do offshoring decisions, relationship quality with contractors and partnership credibility should be central attributes, even if it means doing business with higher priced companies. Many companies do not focus enough on the quality aspect in the contractor tendering phase. Instead they tend to base decisions solely on cost and speed even though bad quality work results in increased costs and delays in construction projects.

Författarna har genom studien funnit att faktorerna engagemang, tidigare internationell erfarenhet, systematiskt tillvägagångssätt, företagets storlek,nätverk och kunskap haft tydligast påverkan på de studerade svenska företagens internationalisering och framgång i Ryssland. Dessa framgångsfaktorer tycks även likna de faktorer som generellt framträder i tidigare forskning. Dock framstår möjliga marknadsspecifika element som kan kopplas specifikt till den ryska marknaden. Dessa framgångsfaktorer kan inte enskilt förklara företagens framgång, utan ger en nyanserad bild av de studerade företagens främsta attribut vid etableringen. / It can be concluded that commitment, previous international experience, systematic approach, company size, network and knowledge has had the most prevailing outcomes in regards to successful companies in this study. These success factors tend to be in line with previous research conducted on the area. However these factors cannot alone account for the success for the individual companies, but can give guidance of important attributes that influenced the internationalisation for the enterprises in this study.

The subject of this diploma thesis is the strategic development of JančaSolutions s.r.o., which is active in the field of rack technology assembling, focusing mainly on the western markets. The data needed to evaluate the current state of the company and to select an appropriate development strategy were obtained using the various analytical methods described in the theoretical part of the thesis. In the analytical part of the thesis the individual methods were applied and their results were further analyzed within the framework of the SWOT matrix, which was the basis of selection of the company's specific development strategy. In the design part, an alternative for further development of the company is selected in detail with regard to the necessary resources, including other implementation activities and the benefits of the proposals.

The aim of my thesis is to create business plan for expansion of concrete small size company in connection to it's current situation, possible future growth and further development. First part of my thesis is focused on available innovation processes, which can be implied to daily work to get desired innovation and improvement of current status and to shift the company to the next level. Second part of my thesis will be summing up the actual status of the company in connection to possible business opportunities and by using the innovation processes I am going to suggest business plan to extend the company in the way it secures stable company's growth and readiness of all business systems and processes for further enlargement, with the aim of increasing company's value even improving operating results.

The aim of my thesis is to create business plan for expansion of concrete small size company MONTIX, a.s. in connection to its current situation, possible future growth and further development. First part of my thesis is focused on aims of my work and theoretical resources, which might be used in real practice. Second part of my thesis will be summing up the actual status of the company in connection to possible business opportunities and by using the innovation processes I am going to suggest business plan to extend the company in the way it secures stable company's growth and readiness of all business systems and processes for further enlargement, with the aim of increasing company's value even improving operating results in a form of business plan.

Expansion is a challenge that many companies end up in, and an important factor in an expansion is the customers and how the company will do to increase the customer base. This study focuses on the company and to help companies identify new customers. The study uses multi criteria decision analysis to identify potential customers to companies. The purpose of this study is to show that multi criteria decision analysis can be effectively used by companies in identifying new customers and also used as a basis for expansion. By using a case study at Stort AB, a small logistics company, the TOPSIS multi criteria decision method can be tested as a method for identifying new customers. With the help from the employees of the company, participating in the study in the form of decision makers, criteria’s and weights relevant to the company can be determined. Data, criteria and requirements are taken from Stort AB and the Statistiska centralbyrån in order to implement TOPSIS and further information is collected from Stort AB in order to answer questions such as: how much resources are required by the company to cope with expansion and how many new customers do the company need to achieve the desired expansion. The study shows that TOPSIS is a good method of ranking, especially when the problem contains many options. From TOPSIS, a ranking of all potential customers is obtained based on the company's weighting, and it can be read which customer that will suit the company's criteria best. However, the data available for this study were inadequate to provide some accurate answers to the company, but the study provides a good picture for the company how it will look and what will be required of them in an expansion. / Expansion är en utmaning som många företag hamnar i och en viktig faktor i en expansion är kunderna och hur företaget ska göra för att öka kundkretsen. Denna studie fokuserar på företaget och att hjälpa företaget att identifiera nya kunder. I studien används multikriteriebeslutsanalys för att identifiera potentiella kunder till företaget. Syftet med denna studie är att visa att multikriteriebeslutsanalys på ett effektivt sätt kan användas av företag vid identifiering av nya kunder och även användas som grund för expansion. Med hjälp av en fallstudie hos företaget Stort AB, ett litet logistikföretag, testas multikriteriebeslutsmetoden TOPSIS som metod för att identifiera nya kunder. Med hjälp av de anställda på företaget, som deltar i studien i form av beslutsfattare, kan kriterier och vikter som är relevanta för företaget bestämmas. Data, kriterier och krav tas från Stort AB och Statistiska centralbyrån för att kunna genomföra TOPSIS och ytterligare information hämtas från Stort AB för att försöka besvara frågor som: hur mycket resurser krävs av företaget för att klara av expansionen och hur många nya kunder behöver företaget för att uppnå önskad expansion. Studien visar att TOPSIS är en bra metod vid ranking, framförallt då problemet innehåller många alternativ. Från TOPSIS fås en ranking av samtliga potentiella kunder baserat på företagets viktning och där kan det avläsas vilka kunder som passar bäst in på företagets kriterier. De data som fanns tillgängligt vid denna studie var begränsat för att kunna ge några exakta svar till företaget men studien ger en bra bild för företaget hur det kommer se ut och vad som kommer krävas av dem vid en expansion.

The aim of this thesis is to create a business plan for the newly established business subject in the health food industry and evaluate the viability of the plan. The plan also includes the choice of the appropriate form of potential expansion into the foreign market. This thesis is divided into theoretical and practical parts. To create this business plan, firstly it was necessary to write down the complex theoretical framework of the basic aspects which are crucial for small and medium businesses. Secondly, it was needed to sum up the general principles of creating a business plan, characterise its structure and mention the most common mistakes and problems that entrepreneurs may encounter. The theoretical part is concluded by a description of the appropriate forms of expansion for small and medium businesses. Based on this theoretical framework the business plan for the company SnackBag was created with the emphasis on the project´s financial calculation. The calculations confirm the business plan as viable. Analysis of the main advantages and disadvantages of particular forms of expansion to foreign markets concludes that the franchise was evaluated as the most suitable for SnackBag.

The thesis comprises a business plan describing the Expansion of the Company in the Area of Child Daycare. Based on the analysis the draft describes concrete marketing plan, scheme of sales, staffing and financial plan including the economic evaluation. Important is the profitability of the business plan and the ability of its implementation.

This diploma thesis deals with an entrepreneurial plan concerning the development of the business company MISE s.r.o., Ltd. The company has been working on the market as a distributor of medical aids for diabetics. The theoretical part is focused on the general characteristic related to the topic. The following analytical part contains the company characteristic, market analysis, financial analysis, the analysis of the outer and inner environment, including the plan evaluation for further expansion. In the conclusion, I summarize both the strong and weak points of the company, and also the opportunities and threats. The proposal part is based on the defined summary of the analytical part. The individual actions will aim to assemble an entrepreneurial plan, which will lead to the company expansion.