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The activities associated with gathering and interpreting business plan information, including vision, mission, charter, plans (volume, growth, width, depth), management objectives, markets, products, customers, competitors, growth plans, and product positioning.

An organization's business plan provides a communication vehicle that structures the thinking about vision, mission, and charter of an enterprise, and then articulates the approach to supplying markets with products and services with the objective of specific financial goals. Competitive analysis, timeline, funding, and management objectives are usually included.

Use Cases

Business Model Canvas Template

A recommended method to analyze the business plans is developing the Business Model Canvas: A shared language for describing, visualizing, assessing and changing business models. The canvas extracts and summarizes 9 building blocks that make up the desired business model:

1. Customer Segments (CS) -- The groups of customers, identified as one or more named segments, the business or organization serves
2. Value Propositions (VP) -- The problems the business or organization solves for its customers
3. Channels (CH) -- The sales and distribution channels the business or organization uses to serve its customers
4. Customer Relationships (CR) -- The type or types of relationships the business or organization maintains with its customers
5. Revenue Streams (R$) -- The types of products and services the business or organization sells to its customers
6. Key Resources (KR) -- The assets the business or organization has to deliver products and services to its customers
7. Key Activities (KA) -- The processes (and practices) the business or organization has to plans, source, make, and deliver products and services to its customers
8. Key Partnerships (KP) -- The partners that provide products and services to the business or organization
9. Cost Structures (C$) -- The total cost the business or organization incurs to provide products and services to its customers

Alternative methods to Analyze the Business Plan includes the 1PBS.

Hierarchy

ID	Name	Level	x
A1	Align Strategy	2	A1
A101	Analyze Business Plan	3	A101

Term(s)

ID	Name	Clear	x
1PBS	1-Page Business Strategy		1PBS
BMC	Business Model Canvas		BMC

Workflow

From Input(s)	Process	Output(s) To
wf_process wf_arrow Other Business Plan	A101	wf_arrow wf_process Business Plan A103 Business Plan A105 Channels A102 Customer Segments A102 Markets A113 Product A102 Ranking Criteria A104

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