Business Planning

Fast track route to rock-solid business plans

Covers key areas of business planning from understanding why a plan is necessary and what issues it should address to compiling the plan and using it to direct the business and ensure goals are met.

Includes the low-down on key planning aids such as swot analysis, the Boston and Ansoff matrices, and practical examples and advice drawn from banks and accounting firms as well as business practitioners and gurus such as Philip Kotler

Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide

Introduction to Express Exec

Introduction

What is Business Planning?

The Evolution of Business Planning

The E-Dimension

The Global Dimension

The State of the Art

In Practice

Key Concepts and Thinkers

Resources

Ten Steps to Successful Business Planning

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Acknowledgements

Index PATRICK FORSYTH runs Touchstone Training Consultancy, an independent firm specializing in the improvement of marketing, sales, communication and management skills. He is the author of a number of successful business and management books. Fast track route to rock-solid business plans

Covers key areas of business planning from understanding why a plan is necessary and what issues it should address to compiling the plan and using it to direct the business and ensure goals are met.

Includes the low-down on key planning aids such as swot analysis, the Boston and Ansoff matrices, and practical examples and advice drawn from banks and accounting firms as well as business practitioners and gurus such as Philip Kotler

Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide

ExpressExec is a unique business resource of one hundred books. These books present the best current thinking and span the entire range of contemporary business practice. Each book gives you the key concepts behind the subject and the techniques to implement the ideas effectively, together with lessons from benchmark companies and ideas from the world's smartest thinkers.

ExpressExec is organised into ten core subject areas making it easy to find the information you need:

01 Innovation
02 Enterprise
03 Strategy
04 Marketing
05 Finance
06 Operations and Technology
07 Organizations
08 Leading
09 People
10 Life and Work

ExpressExec is a perfect learning solution for people who need to master the latest business thinking and practice quickly.