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Corporate Entrepreneurship: How to Create a Thriving Entrepreneurial Spirit Throughout Your Company
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Corporate Entrepreneurship: How to Create a Thriving Entrepreneurial Spirit Throughout Your Company

by Robert Hisrich, Claudine Kearney
September 2011
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
7h 35m
English
McGraw-Hill
Content preview from Corporate Entrepreneurship: How to Create a Thriving Entrepreneurial Spirit Throughout Your Company

Scope and Value of the Business Plan

The individuals creating the corporate business plan need to be prepared to address issues, needs, and concerns of each constituency in the organization. While these individuals will definitely include management of the organization and/or the internal venture fund’s evaluation team, they could also include consultants, customers, employees, suppliers, or even outside funders.

Corporate entrepreneurs need to put themselves in the position of the potential buyer. Apple’s tremendous turnaround in 1998 (with its focus on desktop and portable computers) and continued success in 2009 (with the simple-to-use iPod) was a direct result of considering the product from the end user’s point of view.

The business plan ...

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