Business Planning
Create robust, adaptive business plans that serve as roadmaps for success articulate your vision, set realistic goals, allocate resources, and plan for sustainable growth.
Course Overview
This comprehensive course guides you through the process of creating robust, adaptive business plans that serve as roadmaps for success. Grounded in EntreComp's "Into Action" competence area particularly Planning & Management you will learn to articulate your business vision, set realistic goals, develop strategies, allocate resources effectively, and plan for sustainable growth while building resilience and adaptability.
Competence Areas
Into Action
Planning & Management, Coping with Uncertainty, Working with Others, Learning through Experience
Ideas & Opportunities
Vision, Valuing Ideas
Resources
Self-awareness & Self-efficacy, Motivation & Perseverance
What you'll learn
- Prioritize, organize, and follow up on actions
- Define long-, medium-, and short-term goals
- Develop sustainable business plans with clear vision and strategy
- Adapt plans based on changes in circumstances
- Allocate resources effectively to achieve goals
- Apply the business planning cycle: design, implement, monitor, evaluate, adjust
- Evaluate and manage risks strategically
- Build teams, network, and learn from both success and failure
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- 1Develop a comprehensive business plan with clear vision, mission, and values
- 2Set SMART goals at different time horizons
- 3Create actionable strategies and detailed action plans
- 4Conduct thorough market analysis and competitive assessment
- 5Define and understand target customer segments
- 6Plan resource allocation across financial, human, and material resources
- 7Create realistic financial projections and budgets
- 8Develop risk management and contingency plans
- 9Establish monitoring and evaluation systems and use data to track progress
- 10Present business plans convincingly to stakeholders
Not yet open for enrolment
This course runs as an in-person programme on a quarterly cohort basis. Sign-ups open the month before each cohort begins for example, the January cohort opens in December. Check back soon for dates and enrolment.
