Definitive Business Plan, Second Edition, The

Grand finale

The aim of this chapter is to help you think about and assess risks. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, your analysis might have taken you back to revise your strategy and operating plans. This is what the business planning process is all about. Finding the best path to the future. When you have gone around this loop enough times to maximize your strategy while controlling and minimizing risks, you have completed your business planning process. You can then write a few pages demonstrating to readers of your plan that everything is under control. Remember, you want to try to anticipate their concerns.

Congratulations. Now all that remains is the satisfying task of pulling it all together, tidying up your plan and getting it approved. ...