Download or read book The Definitive Business Plan written by Richard Stutely and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Definitive Business Plan" delivers fast-track advice, aimed at competent business people who want to get beyond the basics and produce definitive, cogent and intelligent plans.
Download or read book The Definitive Business Plan written by Richard Stutely and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive book will ensure your business plan is robust enough to start, run or revitalise any business enterprise. Whether your goal is raising start-up finance for a new business, requesting venture funding from a corporate parent or directing operational management, The Definitive Business Plan will help you deliver the information the decision-makers are really looking for. Accessible to the newcomer and detailed enough for the experienced planner, the third edition of this international bestseller explains how to tailor a plan for specific readerships and meet specific objectives, helping you to focus your attention on strategic planning as well as on operational controls. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.
Download or read book The Successful Business Plan written by Rhonda M. Abrams and published by The Planning Shop. This book was released on 2003 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forbes calls The Successful Business Plan one of the best books for small businesses. This new edition offers advice on developing business plans that will succeed in today's business climate. Includes up-to-date information on what's being funded now.
Download or read book Game Plan written by Warren E. Barhorst and published by Renovo Partners LLC. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Game Plan is not the typical, traditional, how-to business book. It is different in numerous ways from most business books that either bog you down with information overload or bore you to tears with text book techniques. The book is written from a lighthearted standpoint with simple examples and can be read in less than two hours. If a reader needs specific help with a concept, for no additional charge, they can check out gameplanbook.com for articles, examples and resources that address their specific issue.
Download or read book Business Planning Business Plans and Venture Funding written by Robert T. Ochtel and published by Carlsbad Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is your company's product plan? Which markets do you address? Who is the competition? How do you develop a financial proformas? What is your product development/rollout plan? What's in an investor focused business plan? How do I successfully approach Angel and venture capital investors and secure funding? This book provides a definitive reference guide, of proven methods, and processes, developed by the author, to initiate the business planning process, develop a complete and compelling business plan and ultimately secure funding from Angel investors, venture capitalists or other their party investors. These methods and processes are first defined, next explained, and then delineated by actual examples. With the development and publication of this book, the author provides the entrepreneur with the necessary insight, proper background, rules, strategies and tactics to develop a successful start-up company and achieve their ultimate goal - secure funding and bring their product, service or technology to market.
Download or read book Business Plan in a Day written by Rhonda M. Abrams and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've heard these words from a potential lender, investor, or business partner, and you need a business plan pronto, this book is for you! Step-by-Step Checklists See exactly what you need to do to create a high-quality, successful plan quickly. Easy-to-Use Worksheets Help you quickly work through every section of your plan. Time-saving Tools Shortcuts and resources get you straight to all the information you need. Sample Plan We've done the hard part! Use our carefully designed samples as a model for your own plan. Keys to Success Time-tested tips from insiders help you reach your goals. Expert Advice Written by Rhonda Abrams, America's leading expert on business plan success. It's All Here: Concise, but thorough. Everything you need to develop a winning plan. QuickTips help you finish important tasks fast. Financials made easy! Flow-through financials let you pull together your financial documents quickly. Formatting guidelines ensure that your plan matches industry norms and standards Online Resources po$$ you to key sources of information. Get it done right, get done fast! Book jacket.
Download or read book The Business Plan written by Gerald Schwetje and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-24 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the essentials to write a successful business plan. The represented methods and best practices have been approved over many years in practice with many management consulting engagements. The book is beautifully structured, it has a pragmatic emphasis and an autodidactic approach. The reader gets acquainted with the skills and competencies as well as tools, required for the planning and development of the business plan project.
Download or read book Getting to Plan B written by John Mullins and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You have a new venture in mind. And you've crafted a business plan so detailed it's a work of art. Don't get too attached to it. As John Mullins and Randy Komisar explain in Getting to Plan B, new businesses are fraught with uncertainty. To succeed, you must change the plan in real time as the inevitable challenges arise. In fact, studies show that entrepreneurs who stick slavishly to their Plan A stand a greater chance of failing-and that many successful businesses barely resemble their founders' original idea. The authors provide a rigorous process for stress testing your Plan A and determining how to alter it so your business makes money, solves customers' needs, and endures. You'll discover strategies for: -Identifying the leap-of-faith assumptions hidden in your plan -Testing those assumptions and unearthing why the plan might not work -Reconfiguring the five components of your business model-revenue model, gross margin model, operating model, working capital model, and investment model-to create a sounder Plan B. Filled with success stories and cautionary tales, this book offers real cases illustrating the authors' unique process. Whether your idea is for a start-up or a new business unit within your organization, Getting to Plan B contains the road map you need to reach success.
Download or read book Plan to Win written by John Garside and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a practical approach to creating and implementing cost-effective business processes. Focusing on key elements of a robust business plan, it defines the core business processes needed in a successful process-driven organization, and offers checklists of essential criteria for designing the process. Containing chapters on customer development, the production introduction process, and supply chain, project, and finance management, the core processes are described and supported by diagrams and checklists of essential criteria for designing the process. The author has worked with leading aerospace, automotive, and industrial component manufacturers and the book exhibits his extensive experience in business planning across various industry sectors including Dunlop, GKN Technology and Lucas Aerospace.
Download or read book Business Exit Planning written by Les Nemethy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most viable exit strategies for owners of mid-sized companies For many business owners, cashing out of a business is a lifelong dream. For some, exiting a business can be a nightmare. Business Exit Planning: Options, Value Enhancement, and Transaction Management for Business Owners provides a comprehensive view of what every business owner needs to know to plan and execute a business exit. The book Includes 30 relevant mini-case studies on business exit planning and transaction management, as well as a glossary of frequently used technical terms Details options for those owners who no longer want to be active in the business, as well as for those who want to remain invested Covers a wide range of topics related to business exit planning and transaction management, including IPO, MBO, refinancing, ESOPs, building an exit team, business plan and valuation, due diligence, and estate planning Regardless of whether a business owner seeks an immediate exit or a staged exit over time, Business Exit Planning provides a comprehensive strategy and road map to define exit-related objectives.
Download or read book Exit Planning written by John Brown and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LEAVING YOUR BUSINESS IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT FINANCIAL TRANSACTION OF YOUR LIFE AND NOTHING HAS GREATER FINANCIAL AND EMOTIONAL CONSEQUENCES. THE FUTURE QUALITY OF YOUR LIFE DEPENDS UPON HOW WELL YOU MANAGE YOUR EXIT PROCESS.The Definitive Guide lays out the steps you must take to achieve all of your aspirations as you exit your business. Author John Brown shares the wisdom, stories, tested process and exit planning roadmap from hundreds of exit planning advisors across North America. These advisors, and Brown's company, BEI, create thousands of owner exit plans every year. In The Definitive Guide, you will learn:How and why to set actionable exit goalsHow your role as owner must change if your business is to attract buyersHow your company's management team steps up to next-level operational excellenceWhich nine important value drivers deliver the value buyers pay top dollar forHow to avoid the common traps that can prevent you from creating an exit planHow to choose which of four exit paths is best for you, your family and your business: A sale to insiders (management team or co-owners)A transfer to childrenA third-party saleA sale to an Employee Stock Ownership PlanLET BROWN AND THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE BE YOUR COMPANIONS AS YOU UNDERTAKE THE BIGGEST FINANCIAL EVENT OF YOUR LIFE.John H. Brown is the CEO of Business Enterprise Institute, the oldest and largest provider of Exit Planning education to owners and advisors in North America. With over 225,000 copies in print, John's first book, How To Run Your Business So You Can Leave It In Style, is the best-selling exit-planning book of all time. John is an accomplished speaker and expert commentator on exit planning issues.
Download or read book The Definitive Business Plan written by Richard Stutely and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Definitive Business Plan' delivers fast-track advice for executives and entrepreneurs who want to get beyond the basics and produce coherent, compelling and intelligent business plans.
Download or read book The Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Management written by Andrew Hiles and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a pedigree going back over ten years, The Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Management can rightly claim to be a classic guide to business risk management and contingency planning, with a style that makes it accessible to all business managers. Some of the original underlying principles remain the same – but much has changed. This is reflected in this radically updated third edition, with exciting and helpful new content from new and innovative contributors and new case studies bringing the book right up to the minute. This book combines over 500 years of experience from leading Business Continuity experts of many countries. It is presented in an easy-to-follow format, explaining in detail the core BC activities incorporated in BS 25999, Business Continuity Guidelines, BS 25777 IT Disaster Recovery and other standards and in the body of knowledge common to the key business continuity institutes. Contributors from America, Asia Pacific, Europe, China, India and the Middle East provide a truly global perspective, bringing their own insights and approaches to the subject, sharing best practice from the four corners of the world. We explore and summarize the latest legislation, guidelines and standards impacting BC planning and management and explain their impact. The structured format, with many revealing case studies, examples and checklists, provides a clear roadmap, simplifying and de-mystifying business continuity processes for those new to its disciplines and providing a benchmark of current best practice for those more experienced practitioners. This book makes a massive contribution to the knowledge base of BC and risk management. It is essential reading for all business continuity, risk managers and auditors: none should be without it.
Download or read book Entrepreneurship in a European Perspective written by Christine K. Volkmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook focuses on the management challenges of founding a new venture and managing its rapid growth as the firm evolves. It covers crucial management areas in the entrepreneurship context such as entrepreneurial finance, marketing, and human resource management. Also, more hands-on management topics like writing a business plan and choosing a legal form for a venture are covered. A key chapter of the book is dedicated to leadership challenges in managing rapidly growing young firms located in new industries and technology areas. The book is written from a Continental European perspective to cater for its European target audience in entrepreneurship courses to be held in English.
Download or read book Guide to Business Planning written by Graham Friend and published by Bloomberg Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A comprehensive guide to every aspect of preparing and using a business plan--newly updated and revised. New businesses and existing businesses fare better with well-thought-out plans. It is essential to have a good business plan to raise capital--either for a new venture to get additional capital or within most corporations for new initiatives or for accelerated growth"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The Business Plan Workbook written by Colin Barrow and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important steps in launching or expanding a venture is the creation of a business plan. The absence of a written business plan can lead to failure for new businesses, and inhibit growth and development. Based on methodology developed at Cranfield School of Management, The Business Plan Workbook takes a practical approach to the topic of business planning. Perfect for those growing businesses, as well as a range of academic and professional courses, this title takes the reader step-by-step through each phase of the development of a business plan, from creating a competitive business strategy to its writing and presentation. With 29 corresponding assignments that each includes case studies such as Hotmail, Cobra Beer, IKEA and Amazon, actively engaging questions and worksheets, it will enable you to validate your business idea, brand your business, research your market, and raise finance. This new edition includes an additional assignment covering online content, key words, SEO, Social Media, traffic tracking, affiliate marketing and online advertising. With a range of fresh case studies including BrewDog, Chilango and Honest Burgers, this fully updated ninth edition of The Business Plan Workbook is an invaluable and comprehensive guide to all aspects of business planning.
Download or read book Self Made written by Bianca Miller-Cole and published by John Murray Business. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SELF-MADE IS A TRULY DEFINITIVE GUIDE; A 'GO-TO' BOOK FOR ALL ENTREPRENEURS AT ANY STAGE OF BUSINESS. This authoritative, focused guide by two of the UK's brightest young entrepreneurs - The Apprentice runner-up, Bianca Miller and serial entrepreneur, Byron Cole - is a comprehensive toolkit for anyone who wants to make a success of running their own business. Featuring interviews with well known entrepreneurs, entertainers and industry experts, the book covers every tier of the business development process, from start-up to exit, offering practical, implementable and global advice on the start up process. De-coding the jargon that is prevalent in business circles today, this book provides straightforward advice on converting an innovative business concept into a commercially viable proposition. It will help you to avoid the costly common mistakes of many who have gone before you, and create a sustainable enterprise that will flourish. Read Self Made and run your own business without fear of failure.
