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Business Planer
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Strategic Planning
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PlanWare offers advice & tools for writing a business plan, making
financial projections, business planning and developing business
strategies. Includes software, shareware, freeware, white papers.
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An American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC): Strategic Planning What
Works & What Doesn't: a white paper on strategic planning.
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One Stop Shop B-Plan
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Format of a Typical Plan
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Read through sample business plans optimized for the Web. Deliver your
investors and partners a savvy plan. Use the Plan Wizard to find a plan
or scroll through this list.
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Executive summary, mission, company
pan, product plan, Marketing analysis, marketing plan, operational plan,
financial plan.
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Planning Freeware
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Download a Word-based business plan guide and template. Registration is
required, but no cost. Also includes a link to Excel-based shareware for
business financial planning.
Developing a Business Strategy
Business plan template & guidelines (Word format), On-line financial
planner (Excel format) for first-cut 5-year projections, Business
financial planner for short-term projections using Excel.
Quotations about Bad Planning
This is a good site for anyone putting together a strategic planning
presentation and needs a pointed quotation to illustrate a point.
Quotations include planning mistakes, failed predictions.
Strategic Planning Process for Non-Profits
Organizational development strategy geared for nonprofit agencies.
Includes nonprofit locator, INC library, FAQ, INC bulletins, and a number
of strategies suitable for a nonprofit organizations.
Is Your Industry Growing?
In addition to understanding what position your business holds in its
industry, it's also critical to understand how the industry is progressing
and changing so you can grow your company with it.
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Books
Kiser and Gibson-Meiers' Recommended list
Communicating Change:
How to Win Employee Support for New Business Directions; by Sandar Larkin, T. J. Larkin,
McGraw-Hill (April 1994).
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Getting Things Done When You Are Not in Charge:
How to Succeed from a Support Position; by Geoffrey M. Bellman; Berrett-Koehler (September 1992).
Influence Without Authority
by Allan R. Cohen, David L. Bradford, David F. Bradford; John Wiley & Sons (August 1991).
The Leader's Change Handbook:
A complete guide to creating and managing wealth. The book that Wall Street does not want you
to read!
Lightning in a Bottle:
Proven Lessons for Leading Change; by David H. Baum; Dearborn Trade (June 2000).
Shaping the Adaptive Organization:
Landscapes, Learning, and Leadership in Volatile Times; by William E. Fulmer; AMACOM
(March 2000).
Terms of Engagement:
Changing the Way We Change Organizations; by Richard H. Axelrod; Berrett-Koehler (May 2000).
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