1. The Business Plan - Creating Clarity For Your New Enterprise by Monika Sylvester
   
   Basically, this is a comprehensive document that is made up of several components - a business blueprint if you will. That helps an entrepreneur establish a point-by-point road map for their business future. A business plan is your business story.
   
   
2. Why Won't You Write a Business Plan? by H. R. Smith
   
   You know you need a business plan. You know banks, lenders and venture capitalists will all require a written plan. So why is it that so many people refuse to write one?
   
   
3. Why Do Smart People Continue to Pay For Dumb Mission Statements? by Leanne Hoagland-Smith
   
   Smart people including CEO's, small business owners, SOHO and even sales professionals abound in business. Yet, these same intelligent people spend (note not invest) millions of dollars in truly dumb mission statements.
   
   
4. Making Stuff Up by Holly Green
   
   Imagination can be a wonderful thing. But in the business world, making stuff up that has little to no basis in reality can wreak havoc with your strategic planning process. Learn how to identify common MSUs (making stuff up) and minimize their impact on your organization.
   
   
5. Ingredients of a Successful Market Research Program by Abhijeet Singh Hazare
   
   This article provides information on "How to Plan / Strategize" a Successful Market Research Progamme. A simple effective 10 Step approach on Market Research Planning has has been discussed in this article. Its a must read for businesses who are in process of starting a market research campaign as part of their marketing strategy.
   
   
6. Change For the Better With Better Planning by John Duffield
   
   The ability to formulate a strategic business plan and to implement the changes proposed by the plan separates successful companies from those who go under. Too many failed companies have made the mistake of producing a weighty, glossy plan, supporting internal power bases and setting out budgets that are numbers driven. They have lost sight of the real issue: the planning process itself, a process for effecting change and projecting the company forward into the future. This article explains the business planning process step-by-step to assist you in formulating a plan that will have a direct effect on operational performance. But first, let's look quickly at the issues that make careful business planning so essential today.
   
   
7. Use Scenario Planning to Adapt As We Emerge From This Recession by Clint Burdett
   
   Scenario planning is an efficient, cost-effective method used to observe, understand and adapt to economic, social, technical and political developments that will impact your organization, community and region. As we emerge from the recession with consumers holding back, scenario planning prepares a firm to adapt intelligently. The method helps push your planning horizon out to about five years.
   
   
8. Looking Forward - Which Direction is Your Business Looking? by Joseph R. Byrd
   
   Healthcare is a major concern to most businesses. The costs are rising and the control seems to be decreasing. Actually your business has more control over healthcare costs than you may think. It just takes a forward-thinking approach. By looking ahead you can save money and improve your business.
   
   
9. The Business Plan For Your Online Business by Lawrence Anderson
   
   When you decide to make take your business online you must need to design a business plan first that you can follow while designing your website and apply techniques. A business plan is a list or a document that you follow when you are doing something in your business and setting up things up for your customers.
   
   
10. IT Consulting Business Planning - How Deep Will Your Services Go? by Eric Powers
    
    Your menu of services is a keystone of your IT consulting business plan. To decide on this menu, you have to consider how deep your services will go into the companies you work with.
    
    
11. Sample Construction Business Plan - Areas to Customize by Eric Powers
    
    A sample construction business plan or a template for such a business plan can be an incredible time saver as you set out to write. However, there are a number of areas which must be specifically customized for your purposes.
    
    
12. "Anyone Who" is Not a Target Market by Carolyn R Higgins
    
    Finding your target market - that segment of the population that is best suited for your business and is most likely to buy from you - is absolutely crucial to developing a plan for growth (aka a marketing plan). When I talk to small business owners, they're usually reluctant to start at the beginning, building a plan.
    
    
13. Why Your Business Plan Failing Could Be a Good Thing by E Martin
    
    Did you know having your business plan fail can be the best thing that can happen to you? Sounds crazy right? But it's true, and here is why.
    
    
14. The Mission Statement by Liam Carolan
    
    Are you interested in building a strong foundation in your new or existing organization? Do you have ethics and standards? Do you also have a crystal clear picture of what it is that you want, and where you want to go? Creating a mission statement is really the most critical first step toward insuring that your new or existing organization has a clearly defined purpose to help it succeed - and if you are going to employ people, give them every available possibility to share that purpose with you.
    
    
15. Team Engagement in the Planning Process Makes For Better Implementation by Helen Wilkie
    
    Teams win most often when all the players are moving towards the same objective. When planning your objectives and activities for next year, take the opportunity to involve all your people in the process. Here's a suggested approach to doing this and reaping the benefits.
    
    
16. Why a Business Plan is a Vital Management Tool by Peter L Mitchell
    
    Traditionally, business planning has been carried out for periods of one year or more. But in the past, the commercial environment was not changing quickly and a 12 or 24 month plan was appropriate. Today the situation is different. The plan must reflect the changing commercial, financial and industrial environment. Changes are taking place at an ever-increasing rate. This means that businesses today have to be much more nimble and responsive to the changes in the marketplace and the needs of the customers. Furthermore, changes in technology can mean that today's equipment is obsolete tomorrow
    
    
17. A Very Important Skill to Master by John Hayes Jr
    
    The best decisions in life are usually made slowly, ultimately, with dedication, and are unwavering. If you can learn to do this, then you are on your way to a spectacular and well-deserved success.
    
    
18. The Power of One - Snap Ahead in Business by Lou Landau
    
    To be successful in business requires learning new skills. You may not have the time, but you have the time to learn one page a day. If you are a sales person, call one person a day. You start with one, because it will get you moving. Eventually, momentum builds and are on your way to where you need to go.
    
    
19. More Companies Facing Administration Due to Recession by Tom V Powell
    
    With the recession over for all EU countries but for England and Italy it seems that the state of the economy has started to further cripple the already crumbling financial sector. With many companies, mainly in the engineering and the recruitment sectors, being hard hit companies are now facing company administration. This figure may be on the rise as gaining credit becomes harder due to banks taking the more secure deals that they think will have the best return.
    
    
20. Advice and Solutions For Crisis Management by Tom V Powell
    
    Crisis management is an essential thing to consider when it comes to owning a business. It is, to put it in the most simple way, what a business needs to do to try and prevent any potential harm. All possible risks to the business should be weighed up, and methods put in place to counter these if they occur.
    
    
21. The Business Plan As a Thought Process and a Valuable Learning Lesson by Mike Daley
    
    Write your own business plan to develop the analytical thinking skills necessary to run your business with an intimate understanding of your own business model. Going through the planning process is an invaluable business experience.
    
    
22. Should Franchisors Provide Business Plans to Franchisees? by Lance Winslow
    
    Most franchisors have highly sophisticated and efficient business models. Indeed, I highly doubt you need to read Michael Gerber's "E-Mith" to figure out why. If you look at any franchisor's confidential operations manuals, you will see thousands of pages of exactly how to run that business, they don't skip any key considerations and they haven't missed anything. Franchisors with thousands of franchised outlets have their business model so refined, and so figured out, that all the mistakes and inefficiencies are completely built out of the business.
    
    
23. How to Help Your Friend Prepare a Business Plan by Lance Winslow
    
    Often people who are very good in business will have their friends come to them when they have an idea of a new company to start. Generally, we all recommend that it makes sense to prepare a business plan to help bring investors on board, or to take to the bank to borrow the money to start their company.
    
    
24. Business Planning in Five Minutes by Jeff P Smith
    
    I love small Business. According to the New Zealand Statistics Department as at 2008 there were 480 thousand businesses in NZ. 97% of these are Small businesses - that means roughly 460 thousand business run by passionate people who have the audacity to RISK capital, borrow against their houses, HIRE Staff and contribute to the economy because they think that they can 'give it a bash'.
    
    
25. Anticipation Underpins Organisational Success by Gina Gardiner
    
    Creating success is only half the story. For those organizations who want to survive and thrive in the long term sustaining success is the name of the game. Many do not. As you walk through your high street or local shopping mall consider how many shops arrive in a great flurry of publicity only to be plastering the CLOSING DOWN EVERYTHING MUST GO notices on their windows a few months later.
    
    
26. How to Exit Your Business Successfully With a Carefully Constructed Business Exit Strategy by Bob B Brown
    
    Not planning an exit from your business is the worst mistake you, as an entrepreneur, can make. Find out why.
    
    
27. Running a Successful Business by Jon Ferraro
    
    Running a successful business is not only about the hard work and dedication, but also about the way yours customers perceive you. A well presented business and outstanding employees can make you stand out from the crowd, while a bad presentation can damage your reputation and in the long run destroy your business. For these reasons it is important to appear professional.
    
    
28. Reaching Revenue Goals - An Index Card Plan by Lisa Almeida
    
    Do you like Halloween enough to have a replay of it when you visit your annual revenue figure on December 31? If you want a treat, instead of a trick, when you cast your eyes on the very bottom line at the end of the year, you may need to do a few things now.
    
    
29. How to Systemize Your Business to Develop an Automated Money Making Machine by Noel Peebles
    
    A small business can benefit greatly by having systems in place. The idea is to build repeatable processes in your business that will produce a predictable and profitable result each and every time.
    
    
30. How to Drive Your Business Along the Road to Success by Noel Peebles
    
    Before you even start developing a business, you need a very clear picture of where the business is headed and what the business will look like when it is finished. Always begin with the end in mind!
    
    

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