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Business Planning: Business Plan Flesh and Bones

by Tim Berry, Guest Blogger

  • Created: February 12, 2010, 12:21 am
  • Updated: December 12, 2011, 8:15 pm
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I like to think of defining flesh and bones as setting the steps. You have a strategy, you’ve got the heart of your business settled, but you want to set it down into concrete steps you can follow and track.

To follow up on a plan and turn it into effective management, you have to have specifics that you can track and manage. This turns a plan into a planning process, and it makes for management. This section deals with the specific steps you can take to make things happen. Remember: Good business planning is nine parts implementation for every one part strategy.

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Founder and Chairman of Palo Alto Software and bplans.com, on twitter as Timberry, doing social media business planning at smbplans.com, and blogging at timberry.bplans.com. Stanford MBA. Married 42 years, father of 5. Author of business plan software Business Plan Pro and www.liveplan.com and books including The Plan As You Go Business Plan, published by Entrepreneur Press, 2008.

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vietcrafts | Window Shopper | 2/1/2013 - 11:46 am

"planning is nine parts implementation for every one part strategy"
great, though do not know much English, but I tried to hear the end of it,
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Very interesting, makes a lot of sense.
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jamiehutch | Window Shopper | 4/26/2011 - 2:41 am

Thank you for your post. Video has been a big help for me to get my plan together.
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gonfl | Window Shopper | 6/8/2012 - 6:17 pm

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Thank you for your post.Video has been a big help for me to get my plan together.
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