MODULE 5: BUSINESS PLANNING Flashcards
Is an important precursor to action in new ventures
Business Planning
Helps firm founders to make decisions, balance resource supply and demand, and to turn abstract goals into concrete operational steps
Business Planning
Who said?
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while
looking out the back window
Peter Drucker
Are developed for both internal and external purposes
Business Plan
Internal or External purpose of business plan?
Entrepreneurs develop business plans to help put the pieces of
their business together.
Internal
Internal or External purpose of business plan?
To raise capital
External
The most common
external purpose for a business plan is
To raise capital
Is the road map for the development of the business
Business Plan
Is often the main method of
describing a company to external audiences such as potential sources for financing and key personnel being recruited.
Business Plan
Provides the most complete source of information for valuation of the business
Business Plan
Notes that business plan writers must strive to communicate their
expectations about the nature of an uncertain future. However, the liabilities of newness make communicating the expected future of new ventures difficult (more so than for existing businesses)
Hindle and Mainprize (2006)
What are the five communication principles of business planning
EMOC-B
Expectations
Milestones
Opportunities
Context
Business Model
Translation of your vision of the venture and how it will perform into a format compatible with the expectations of the readers
Expectations
What communication principle?
Communicate that you have identified and understood the
key success factors and risks
Expectations
What communication principle?
Communicate that the projected market is large and you expect good market penetration
Expectations
What communication principle?
Communicate that you have a strategy for commercialization, profitability, and market domination
Expectations
What communication principle?
Communicate that you can establish and protect a proprietary and competitive position
Expectations
Anchoring key events in the plan with specific financial and quantitative values
Milestone
What communication principle?
Communicate that your major plan objectives are in the
form of financial targets
Milestone
What communication principle?
Communicate that you have addressed the dual need for
planning and flexibility
Milestone
What communication principle?
Communicate that you understand the hazards of
neglecting linkages between certain events
Milestone
What communication principle?
Communicate that you understand the importance of quantitative values (rather than just chronological dates)
Milestone
Nothing lasts forever—things can change to impact the opportunity: tastes, preferences, technological innovation, competitive landscape
Opportunities
What communication principle?
Communicate the new combination upon which venture is built
Opportunities
What communication principle?
Communicate magnitude of the opportunity or market size
Opportunities
What communication principle?
Communicate market growth trends
Opportunities
What communication principle?
Communicate venture’s value from the market (% of market share proposed or market share value in dollars)
Opportunities
What communication principle?
Communicate how the context will help or hinder the proposal
Context
What communication principle?
Communicate how the context may change & affect the business & the range of flexibility or response that is built into the venture
Context
What communication principle?
Communicate what management can or will do in the event the context turns unfavorable
Context
What communication principle?
Communicate what management can do to affect the context in a positive way
Context
What communication principle?
Communicate able to defend assertions that the venture is attractive and sustainable and has a competitive edge.
Business Model
What communication principle?
Communicate Who pays, how much, and how often?
Business Model
What communication principle?
Communicate The activities the company must perform to produce its product, deliver it to its customers and earn revenue
Business Model
What communication principle?
Communicate able to defend assertions that the venture is attractive and sustainable and has a competitive edge
Business Model
Brief and clear statement of how an idea actually becomes a business that creates value
Business Model
Outline five principles to help entrepreneurs project credibility
Hindle and Mainprize (2006)
Business Plan Credibility Principles
TESF-T
Team
Elaboration
Scenario Integration
Financial Link
The Deal
What Business Plan Credibility Principles
Without the right team, nothing else matters.
Team
What Business Plan Credibility Principles
Break down individual tasks into their sub-parts so each step maximizes the upside and minimizes the downside
Elaboration
What Business Plan Credibility Principles
Claiming an insuperable lead or a proprietary market position is naïve
Scenario Integration
Income and cash flow statements must be preceded by
Operational statement
helps the reader understand that the entrepreneur has thought everything through, and that the returns justify the risk.
Standard Format
Ensures that readers can easily go through it without it falling apart
Binding the document
has been extensively tested with entrepreneurship students and has proven to provide the guidance entrepreneurs need to develop a business plan appropriate for their needs
High-power business plan
High power business plan development stage
is a necessary first step to better understand the trends that will affect their business and the decisions they must make to lay the groundwork for, and to improve their potential for success
Essential Initial Research Stage
High power business plan development stage
Inherent in any business plan is a description of the business model chosen by the entrepreneur as the one that they feel will best ensure success.
Business Model stage
High power business plan development stage
involves taking the knowledge and ideas developed during the first two stages and organizing them into a business plan format.
Initial Business Plan Draft Stage
Writing all of the ________as part of the first draft ensures that all of these parts can be appropriately and necessarily integrated
HOM-F
Human resources
Operations
Marketing
Financial plans
True or False
The first draft of a business plan will almost never be realistic.
True