The key to a professional-quality business plan. This best-selling book has been updated to include crucial information on diagnosing and measuring customer satisfaction. How to Write a Business Plan, Fourth Edition not only puts all the facts and planning formats you need right at your fingertips, but also gives you the latest thinking on effective business planning. It shows you how to organize and implement the planning process from beginning to end and translate your plan into action You will learn how to: • Evaluate your company’s capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses • Pinpoint the crucial elements of your competitive environment, including market, economic, and technological factors • Set realistic production/service, revenue, and overall operating goals and objectives • Develop and coordinate strategies that strengthen your company's production, marketing, research and development, organization and management, and financial systems • Identify and integrate customer requirements into your plan • Write the actual planning document and implement it to guide your company to greater productivity and profits • Implement your plan successfully • Obtain the capital you need to grow. This is an ebook version of the AMA Self-Study course. If you want to take the course for credit you need to either purchase a hard copy of the course through amaselfstudy.org or purchase an online version of the course through www.flexstudy.com.
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Covering all the issues in producing a business plan, this text also includes a full glossary, case histories, and a detailed section on the key issue of using internal business plans.
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Not every business will succeed. In truth, far more businesses fail than succeed. The differentiator is always in the planning. This book gives you that competitive edge.
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Small business owners are walked through the process of writing a business plan step-by-step using easy-to-follow to-do lists--from determining the type of plan needed to what the various pieces should be to common mistakes to avoid.
Whether you are majoring in business, looking for investors or developing solid plans for your boss or your own business, this guide can pave the way and/or be there for you when you need a refresher.