The Financial Times Essential Guide to Writing a Business Plan
The Financial Times Essential Guide to Writing a Business Plan

Author: Vaughan Evans

Publisher: Pearson UK

Published: 2022-08-12

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1292085169

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Whether you seek financial backing or board consent, this bestseller gives you the critical knowledge you need to get the go-ahead. Written by a seasoned practitioner with years of experience in both writing & evaluating business plans for funding, you'll formulate a coherent, consistent & convincing plan with your backer’s needs in mind. Follow its guidance and your plan will have every chance of winning the backing you need. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed. Samples Preview sample pages from The FT Essential Guide to Writing a Business Plan

The Financial Times Essential Guide to Developing a Business Strategy
The Financial Times Essential Guide to Developing a Business Strategy

Author: Vaughan Evans

Publisher: Pearson UK

Published: 2013-11-07

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1292002808

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Want to take your company to the next level? You need a roadmap, a strategy. Preferably one that is simple, workable and saleable. This book provides you with just that. It sets out a straightforward strategy development process, the ‘Strategy Pyramid’, and guides you through it. It uses a lively central case study throughout, as well as drawing on examples of how real businesses have developed winning strategies. Whether you are intent on growing your business, or setting out on your start-up, this book offers an uncomplicated, practical and readable guide on how to get the strategy you need for your business to succeed. It offers sound advice on the following areas: Setting goals and objectives Forecasting market demands Gauging industry competition Tracking competitive advantage Targeting the strategic gap Bridging the gap with business strategy Bridging the gap with corporate strategy Addressing risk and opportunity The FT Essential Guide to Developing a Business Strategy will help businesses of all sizes to chart and realise their growth ambitions.

Key Strategy Tools ePub eBook
Key Strategy Tools ePub eBook

Author: Vaughan Evans

Publisher: Pearson UK

Published: 2013-03-26

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0273779125

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Professional-level information empowering you with over 75 key strategic tools to ensure both short term and long-term success for your business and providing the full gamut of tools and techniques needed for you to create your own strategic plan. Following the footsteps of the hugely successful Key Management Models and Key Performance Indicators, this book delivers information in the practical and accessible framework synonymous with the Key series. Key Strategy Tools covers strategy tools and techniques within seven distinct areas: - Setting goals and objectives - Forecasting market demand - Gauging industry competition - Rating competitive position - Identifying strategic gaps - Bridging strategic gaps - Addressing risk and opportunity

The Strategy Book ePub eBook
The Strategy Book ePub eBook

Author: Max Mckeown

Publisher: Pearson UK

Published: 2013-07-31

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0273757113

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Thinking strategically is what separates managers and leaders. Learn the fundamentals about how to create winning strategy and lead your team to deliver it. From understanding what strategy can do for you, through to creating a strategy and engaging others with strategy, this book offers practical guidance and expert tips. It is peppered with punchy, memorable examples from real leaders winning (and losing) with real world strategies. It can be read as a whole or you can dip into the easy-to-read, bite-size sections as and when you need to deal with a particular issue. The structure has been specially designed to make sections quick and easy to use – you’ll find yourself referring back to them again and again.

Understanding Michael Porter
Understanding Michael Porter

Author: Joan Magretta

Publisher: Harvard Business Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1422160599

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A guide to Michael Porters thinking on competition and strategy, classic and current.

The Financial Times Guide to Business Development
The Financial Times Guide to Business Development

Author: Ian Cooper

Publisher: Pearson UK

Published: 2012-09-10

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 0273759558

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With over 500 tips, tactics, techniques and thought provoking business questions, this is the authoritative guide to attracting more customers, profit, revenue and business success. Whether you are a budding entrepreneur, existing business owner, manager or director, this is the most comprehensive, pragmatic, common sense collection of business development techniques ever brought together into one book. It is structured so that you can easily find and dip into specific topics or view the whole book from a more overall strategic standpoint.

The FT Essential Guide to Writing a Business Plan
The FT Essential Guide to Writing a Business Plan

Author: Vaughan Evans

Publisher: Pearson UK

Published: 2022-06-30

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1292416157

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Whether you seek financial backing or board consent, The Financial Times Essential Guide to Writing a Business Plan will give you the critical knowledge you need to get the go-ahead. By focusing clearly on your objective, it will help you to gather the necessary evidence and address all your backers concerns. This brand-new edition draws out the specific challenges faced by start-ups, particularly on pinning down your perceived market niche and determining your competitive advantage. There are new chapters on pitching the plan and performing against the plan, using key performance indicators and milestones. Finally, new appendices outline alternative sources of funding and display an example business plan from start to finish.Written by a seasoned practitioner with years of experience in both writing and evaluating business plans for funding, it will help you formulate a coherent, consistent and convincing plan with your backers needs in mind. Follow its guidance and your plan will have every chance of winning the backing you need for your business to succeed.

Key Strategy Tools
Key Strategy Tools

Author: Vaughan Evans

Publisher: Pearson UK

Published: 2020-08-24

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1292328347

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Key Strategy Tools empowers managers with 88 strategic tools to help build sustainable competitive advantage and ensure long-term success for your business. Within the structure of a straight forward strategy process, the Strategy Pyramid, the book gives you classic strategy models such as Porter's Five Forces or Kim and Mauborgnes Blue Ocean Strategy, as well as broader strategic techniques like rating your competitive position or making strategic investment decisions. This edition introduces you to recent leading strategic thinking such as Markidess Fast Second, McGraths Discovery-driven Growth, Blank and Riess Lean Start-ups and Martins Integrative Thinking. The book describes each tool succinctly and guides you on how and when to apply them and when to be wary.