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Dotcom Business Plans Archive Project
Professor David Kirsch conducts a project of archiving business plans of dotcoms from the Internet boom period.

Ten Steps To A Great Strategic Plan
Ask a small business owner about their strategic plan and they'll either laugh or get that stricken look in their eyes. Yet it's well documented that businesses with a strategic plan are more successful. No matter what size business, from solo practitioner to hundreds of employees, a thoughtful strategic plan will help you achieve your dreams.

Fail to plan... or Plan to FAIL??
One of the key factors which cause many businesses to flop, relates to inadequate planning.

Menu Driven Business Planning
So you want to open a restaurant? Many people come to me with their plans, and ideas after they have decided to build or open a restaurant. It is my responsibility to assist them in their planning process and determine how clearly they have thought their concept through. I ask them to show me a menu, and if their initial response is "I haven't gotten that far in my planning process yet," my response is "You haven't started the planning process yet".

Communication Strategy During A Time Of Strategic Planning
A comprehensive strategy to manage your internal and external communications during a period of change might seem like overkill, a tremendous amount of effort for very little gain. But such a view must be evaluated against the fact that the long-term strategic plan will drive the company for anything from the next five to fifteen years. Investing time at the beginning to 'get it right' will pay massive dividends over the longer term.

Strategic Planning Fundamentals
Strategic planning is vital while starting a new business or expansion of an business or planning to boost the performance of an existing business. But it requires detailed strategic planning and controlled deployment activities. Strategic planning is used to delivers its value proposition and achieve its mission. The main difference between Strategic planning and long term planning is long term planning is developed based on the current scenario but in strategic planning we anticipate future changes...

Why You Need a Business Planning System NOT a Business Plan
Why business plans DON'T WORK and ongoing, continuous business planning systems DO.

Action Planning
Employees who are a part of the planning and problem solving/decision making process will take on additional orgaizational responsibilites to implement the plans. Utilize a team effort which inspires employees and creates innovative ideas.

Succession Planning: Problems Getting Started
Succession planning, like tax planning, is just good common sense and should be a natural part of good business practices. As soon as business owners take out life insurance policies to protect their assets for dependents left behind, they need to think of succession planning. But these owners believe they have plenty of time to arrange for succession. Many business owners put off dealing with succession because it is the least urgent matter on their plate. Too often business owners cannot stand the idea of letting go of an entity they created and for which they toiled to achieve success.

Getting Started with Succession Planning: Part I
To help these business owners get started with succession planning, we have put together a checklist of items that will get the process rolling. The first step is to assess the current situation. Which current positions are vital to the company and need to be filled a priori in any transition? Of those positions, which ones are filled by people who would be expected to retire in the next five years?

Business Plans Keep You On The Success Course
Would you start off on a journey without a map or an idea of how to get there? I don't think so! A business plan will keep you focused in the right direction...

In Business Planning, Competition is Good
When developing the competition section of your business plan, companies must define competition correctly, select the appropriate competitors to analyze, and explain its competitive advantages. Failing to state competitors is a major impediment to success.

Secrets Of Effective Brainstorming
A group of people arguing and defending their ideas, is not effective brainstorming. How do keep this from happening with your brainstorming session?

Describing Intellectual Property in Your Business Plan
Most companies that are worthy of raising venture capital have proprietary Intellectual Property (IP). In fact, the quality of the IP and the management team are often the two most important aspects of a venture capitalist's investment decision. The challenge that many ventures face, however, is that most investors will not sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), and NDAs are critical to maintaining the proprietary nature of the IP. This article details the appropriate strategy for addressing proprietary IP in your business plan in order to attract investor attention while retaining the confidentiality of your inventions.

Breaking the Growth Barriers in the Information Technology and Software Sector
There's nothing automatic about corporate growth, particularly in the information technology industry; build it and they will come is a myth. In the real world there is either a structured, process-driven growth cycle, or stagnation—and stagnation is automatic. Inherent to growth cycles are barriers, real-world business challenges that put some software companies out of business and spur others on to break through those barriers to higher levels of success.

Are You Aware of Planning in Business?
Human beings are rational agents. Rationality endorses one to take up planning in every sphere of life from shifting to a new house to marriage, as well as business.

Defining Go for It Business Goals
Setting goals is an important part of choosing a business that is right for you. Logically, if your business does not meet your personal goals, you probably will not be happy or get any sort of satisfaction from trying to make your business a success. Sooner or later you would stop putting forth effort needed to make the business concept successful. This article gives you a list of some qualities to keep in mind when setting goals and searching for the business that is best for you.

Six Key Principles of Corporate Accountability
The following six principles form the foundation for negotiating and understanding accountability. Together they form a practical theory of accountability, the transforming effect it can have on an organization, and its essential role in creating significant business results.

Creating a Vision That Achieves Results
Developing a vision statement is more than some fancy wordsmithing. You want to create a statement that will stir excitement in staff, and investors alike

What is a Shared Vision?
A shared vision propels a business towards success because more people are focused on doing the right things, at the right time and doing them right!

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