Tips For Creating a Worthwhile Business Plan
Working on process documents, also better known as business plans, is a rather frustrating exercise. While constructing it, no matter how much time you spend on it, it will simply be changed almost immediately. This can be just as frustrating for the users of the business plan as it is for the writers of the process documents. So why don’t people just scrap the entire process of writing business plans upfront entirely? Building a business plan make the writer explore the many different areas to plan for his or her business.
Certainly, there are tips to creating a worthwhile business plan that can go a long way to getting the work of the business plan underway.
Post Your Business Plan to a Public Domain
The first of which is to post the plan in a public domain and that it gains as much visibility as possible. As the entire goal of a business plan is to plan out the best course of action to achieve the goal then taking in as much relevant information as possible can only help. This is especially is true when having the opportunity to post in view of employees and potential investors. Even a location as easily accessed as the company’s blog or newsletter can be a quick way to disseminate the new business plan throughout the organization.
Be sure to make the business plan that others will see open to edits and having a solid search capability. Most hosted live document services are great for this purpose; even Google Drive offers these options. On Google Drive you can load and save an original and then copy and rename the business plan that can be edited by others. To distribute simply mark the email group you wish to receive it and the permissions and access will be sent via a link.
Make Your Business Plan Specific and Concise
Make your business plans as specific and as concise as possible. A business plan is no place to pontificate nor is it someplace to air an opinion of just how something might be accomplished. Keep the contents to an outline form as closely as possible and communicate in plain language and as directly as you can.
Be Open-minded with Your Business Plan
Perhaps most importantly when constructing an effective business plan it is most vital to be open minded, flexible and welcoming in garnering input from others. You want fellow contributors and collaborators, not critics. Let it be known that you are very open to incorporating as many ideas as possible and to give those ideas the benefit of further investigation as the business plan progresses. You want to foster ownership on the part of others to garner as much participation as possible. After all, more heads are better than one.
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