Posts Tagged ‘plan’

Business planning from scratch: a case study

Monday, July 20th, 2009

As promised in “Sharing intellectual property“, this is a the first publication.

This example is not a theoretical example: it is material from a real project- but, of course, some information is not available online.

I used to share this information with specific startups, but the interesting part is not producing the final spreadsheets (what I call “number crunching”).

It is the process that takes you from the idea up to having a completed business plan. And you will find here both the process the material to apply it to your own new activity.

GMN2009: Risk

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

If you identify the “risks”, what could affect the conditions that you assumed that could affect your execution of the plan, then you will end up monitoring that:

  • you are using the resources identified if, when, how planned
  • the risks you already decided to keep under control
  • whatever new happens around you that could affect your plan
  • last but not least: that the activity you planned for still makes sense

It is not just the journey that you have to keep in check; it is also the destination.

This post is part of a series, first published in May 2009.

Do you recognize change?

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

There are few things as contentious as planning estimates.

And controlling and managing change.

And checking its progress.

But is it not simply a matter of number crunching.