Community Consulting Club: Business Planning Resources

Use this index to look at examples of business plans.

Resources, tips and links to more on writing, formatting and presenting your analysis.

This guide presents some helpful tips for pre-writing, writing and revising your business paper. Some helpful links to punctuation and clarity and style guides, too.

Brief descriptions, examples and templates for fifty competitive intelligence techniques

Google's Digital Marketing Evangelist's blog "Occam's Razor" offers tips and examples for competitive intelligence analysis, with a focus on web analytics

How to perform a SWOT analysis, from bplans.com. Includes links to additional resources and templates

Michael Porter's influential Five Forces theory has been used by business strategists for over thirty years (Ross and UMich users who want full access: please contact the library)

Web publication also provides examples and templates for SWOT and STEEP analysis, business planning and marketing advice

Why market research matters for entrepreneurs. From MarketResearch.com

Details the benefits of conducting an analysis for predicting the success of a business as well as how to evaluate SWOT results to visualize potential benefits, risks, and assets along with other examples to help with the strategic planning of a business.

Video about the Business Model Canvas from the Kauffman Foundation and Strategyzer, inventors of the Business Model Canvas Methodology

Resources and links to additional articles, forms and templates to help you construct your business plan from Entrepreneur.com

Basic overview of business plan process from Digital.com

Includes tips on building a financial model and examples from a real startup.

Best practice tips on making your financial model appeal to investors.

From the SCORE Association of the Small Business Administration--includes downloadable templates for break-even analysis, projected balance sheets and more.