Strategic/Business Planning
This folder contains pages which suggest and discuss steps for strategic planning or business planning.
- Step 1: Business Inventory
- Business Planning -- Business Inventory: Inventorying Resources and Describing the Current Business
- Step 2: Owners' Interests and Skills
- Business Planning -- Owners' Interests and Skills
- Step 3: Business Environment
- Business Planning -- Business Environment
- Step 4: Personal and Business Goals
- Business Planning -- Setting Personal and Business Goals
- Step 5: Test Current Operation
- Business Planning -- Testing the Current Operation
- Step 6: Alternatives
- Business Planning -- Identifying and Testing Alternatives
- Step 7: Implementing Alternative
- Business Planning -- Developing and Testing Transitional Plans
- Step 8: Managing Uncertainty
- Business Planning -- Managing Constraints
- Step 9: Monitor and Control
- Business Planning -- Monitoring and Controlling the Business
- Step 10: Document, Share and Revise
- Business Planning - Documenting, Sharing, and Revising
- Enterprise Analysis
- Enterprise Budget and Analysis
- Functional Plans
- Managers need a clear understanding of how they are currently operating the business. This understanding of how the business is currently functioning can be clarified, shared and refined (tactical planning?) through documentation.
- Profitability of an Alternative
- Testing the Profitability of Making a Change (partial budget analysis)
