Business Plan Help

Fast-Track to Intelligent Business Planning for Executives and Entrepreneurs

‘The Definitive Business Plan’ is a very useful companion to any executive writing an internal business plan. It’s one of the few books written on developing and writing business plans that highlights potential scenarios within a company and helps you to get your internal business plan approved. Billed as ‘the fast-track to intelligent business planning for executives and entrepreneurs’ ‘The Definitive Business Plan’ does exactly what it says on the tin.

The Benefits of Writing an Internal Business Plan

Accountancy firm, Continuum, highlights the benefits of writing an internal business plan. The advantages include being able to inspire staff about the future, isolating the obstacles to your progress and helping you to assess whether the strategies you are using are effective or not. The piece also details how an internal business plan differs to an external business plan.

Business Planning Advice for High-Tech Business Leaders

Strategy Boutique aims to help leaders of high-tech businesses to create a successful business plan. They can provide a current assessment of the business as well as plan for the future allowing your business to grow organically and through outside funding. Strategy Boutique offers a free one-hour discussion on business planning.

Planning Your Business from Tip to Toe

The Business Planning Solutions website provides a range of business planning tools. BPS believe that an effective, well-communicated plan is vital to the achievement of any company’s objective. The assistance and services provided are very much about planning for your business, from top-level business plans to personal development plans for individuals.

Internal Business Plan Advice and Consultancy

Corporate change management company, Brefi Group provides a brief guide to preparing a business plan and budget. They advise that a business plan should be a plan of action that will achieve the company's strategic objective and provide a means of monitoring progress towards that objective and of stimulating alternative action if the objective is unlikely to be met by the original plan. Benchmarks or performance measures at key stages during the year should be included in the business plan to enable this. The advice is most apt for medium-sized businesses.

Developing an Internal Business Plan?

If you’re writing an internal business plan (not to be shown to potential investors) the Internal Business Plan site is worth a look. It highlights the main differences between internal and external business plans and provides a range of useful services, like the Internal Business Plan Manual – 7 Steps to Success and a monthly newsletter on internal business plans.

Internal Business Plan Case Study from Business Link

The Business Link website has an interesting case study from a real-life business owner. Darren Jones of AKC Home Support Services, reveals how he found writing a business plan a chore but how it's really helped his business to thrive. The case study is part of Business Link's Preparing a Business Plan guide.

You might also find Business Link's advice on Preparing a Business Plan for Growth useful. The section on Using targets to implement your business plan is particularly useful to help you to utilise your business plan as a practical management tool for you and your team.