The Definitive Business Plan: The fast-track to intelligent business planning for executives and entrepreneurs, Second Edition

Chapter 6. The core of your plan

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• A strategy and an operating plan

• Portfolio strategy – what businesses should you have?

• Business strategies to satisfy your desires

• Strategies for department managers

• Resource requirements

• Strategic objectives

• Documenting the strategy

• Creating an operating plan

• Documenting the operating plan

• Onwards

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	“If one piece is moved wrongly, the whole game is lost.”
	--Chinese proverb

By now, you have a detailed understanding of your business and its operating environment. You have identified your core competencies, competitive advantages and strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Now you can have fun devising a strategy, setting objectives, turning them into an operating plan and documenting it. This ...