Subject Guides: Management & Business: FBPC

Elements of a Business Plan

A Business Plan by Mueckenheim, Jacqueline
Call Number: 2nd floor HD62.7 .B865
ISBN: 0787653098
Publication Date: 2002-05-16

A business plan should include these six elements:

Executive Summary
Description of the Company and Mission Statement
Goals and Objectives
Description of the Product/Service
Human Resources
Industry and Market Analysis

The Small Business Administration - provides sample business plans and step-by-step guides for developing and writing a comprehensive business plan.

Entrepreneur.com - provides a similar resource page that answers a variety of question about entrepreneurship and business plans.

PACE - Program for Acquiring Competence in Fourth Edition Entrepreneurship provides the tools you need in order to develop a concrete strategy for planning and operating your business.

Writing a business plan - This streaming video, produced by Inc., features how to write a business plan.

The Lucy Scribner Library also carries many helpful books on the subject of creating a business plan: search the library catalog using the keywords: <business plans>

Books

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Call Number: Open Reserves -- 1st floor: HD62.5 .R545 2011
ISBN: 9780307887894
Publication Date: 2011-09-13
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.
HBR Guide to Building Your Business Case by Raymond Sheen; Amy Gallo (As told to)
Call Number: Open Reserves -- 1st floor: HD30.28 .S543 2013
ISBN: 9781633690028
You've got a great idea that will increase revenue or productivity--but how do you get approval to make it happen? By building a business case that clearly shows its value. This guide gives you the tools to (1) spell out the business need you're addressing; (2) align your case with strategic goals; (3) build the right team to shape and test your idea; (4) calculate the return on investment; (5) analyze risks and opportunities; (6) gain support from colleagues; (7) present your case to stakeholders; and (8) secure the resources your project needs.
Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder; Yves Pigneur
Call Number: Open Reserves -- 1st floor: HD30.28 .O778 2010
ISBN: 9780470876411
Publication Date: 2010-07-13
Co-created by 470 "Business Model Canvas" practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that explains the most common Business Model patterns. You will learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a game-changing business model--or analyze and renovate an old one. Along the way, you'll understand at a much deeper level your customers, distribution channels, partners, revenue streams, costs, and your core value proposition.
Rework by Jason Fried; David Heinemeier Hansson
Call Number: Open Reserves -- 1st floor: HD31 .F755 2010
ISBN: 9780307463746
Publication Date: 2010-03-09
With its straightforward language and easy-is-better approach, Rework is the perfect playbook for anyone who’s ever dreamed of doing it on their own. Hardcore entrepreneurs, small-business owners, people stuck in day jobs they hate, victims of "downsizing," and artists who don’t want to starve anymore will all find valuable guidance in these pages.
Zero to One by Peter Thiel; Blake Masters
Call Number: Open Reserves -- 1st floor: HD62.5 .T525 2014
ISBN: 9780804139298
Publication Date: 2014-09-16
The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places.
Value Proposition Design by Alexander Osterwalder; Gregory Bernarda; Trish Papadakos; Yves Pigneur
Call Number: Open Reserves -- 1st floor: HF5415.5 .O83 2014
ISBN: 9781118968055
Publication Date: 2014-10-20
Value Proposition Design is for anyone who has been frustrated by business meetings based on endless conversations, hunches and intuitions, expensive new product launches that blew up, or simply disappointed by the failure of a good idea. The book will help you understand the patterns of great value propositions, get closer to customers, and avoid wasting time with ideas that won’t work. You’ll learn the simple but comprehensive process of designing and testing value propositions, taking the guesswork out of creating products and services that perfectly match customers’ needs and desires.Value Proposition Design gives you a proven methodology for success, with value propositions that sell, embedded in profitable business models.

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