Definitive Business Plan, Second Edition, The

Who does what?

You are now ready to allocate responsibilities and activities from the plan to individual job titles – and, therefore to individuals.

While you were developing your business plan, you designed an organization structure that would make it work. If this was high-level, you should extend it to identify every employee. Finally you pull this out into job specifications and job descriptions. (You already know from your resource plans where you need to recruit.) Now all you have to do is communicate the responsibilities to the individuals concerned. The best way is in an employee-objective setting exercise.