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Strategic Planning Resources ...This is the website of American magazine Fast Company. It includes articles about innovative business and marketing strategies. Use the search function to search on a topic or the resource centres (in the left bar) for related topical articles. http://mystrategicplan.com/resources/section/videos/ Sometimes it is difficult to see how what a textbook describes actually happens. At this website, Erica Olsen, author of Strategic Planning for Dummies presents a series of practical videos on creating the strategic plan by standing at a whiteboard and visually and verbally presenting a range of strategic planning processes. http://www.sba.gov/starting/indexbusplans.html The United States Small Business Administration provides useful detailed proforma you can use to write your own business plan. Advice includes how to buy a business or a franchise and how to market your products or services. Beware, some information is USA-centric, such as the ‘Handle Legal Concerns’ topic. http://www.smallbusinessbc.ca/index.php http://www.smallbusinessbc.ca/pdf/businessplanning.pdf Small Business BC is a British Columbia-based not-for-profit organisation describes itself as ‘British Columbia's key resource centre for business information and services’. The first link above points to Small Business BC’s homepage. The second link points to an article called Business Planning and Financial Forecasting: A Start-up Guide. This is a comprehensive guide to writing a business plan. http://www.bplans.com/sp/index.cfm?a=bc Business Plans tend to be sensitive documents. However, many organisations have made their Business Plans available on the Internet. The above two web sites contain a large number of examples of Business Plans. The first link above is to Bplans.com (a website of Palo Alto Software, publishers of business planning software). The second is hosted by Business Resource Software, and contains winning entries in the Moot Corp® Competition, an international competition in which teams submit a business plan to panels of potential investors.
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