Business Planning books available through The Penn Libraries
Business Model Generation by
Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation. Co-created by 470 "Business Model Canvas" practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization. It explains the most common Business Model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context. You will learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a game-changing business model--or analyze and renovate an old one. Along the way, you'll understand at a much deeper level your customers, distribution channels, partners, revenue streams, costs, and your core value proposition. Business Model Generation features practical innovation techniques used today by leading consultants and companies worldwide, including 3M, Ericsson, Capgemini, Deloitte, and others. Designed for doers, it is for those ready to abandon outmoded thinking and embrace new models of value creation: for executives, consultants, entrepreneurs, and leaders of all organizations. If you're ready to change the rules, you belong to "the business model generation!"
Call Number: onlineISBN: 9780470901038Publication Date: 2010-07-23
Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup by
24 Steps to Success "Disciplined Entrepreneurship" will change the way you think about starting a company. Many believe that entrepreneurship cannot be taught, but great entrepreneurs aren't born with something special - they simply make great products. This book will show you how to create a successful startup through developing an innovative product. It breaks down the necessary processes into an integrated, comprehensive, and proven 24-step framework that any industrious person can learn and apply. You will learn: Why the "F" word - focus - is crucial to a startup's successCommon obstacles that entrepreneurs face - and how to overcome themHow to use innovation to stand out in the crowd - it's not just about technology Whether you're a first-time or repeat entrepreneur, "Disciplined Entrepreneurship" gives you the tools you need to improve your odds of making a product people want. Author Bill Aulet is the managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship as well as a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. For more please visit http: //disciplinedentrepreneurship.com/
Call Number: onlineISBN: 9781299848641Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Guide to Business Planning by
A comprehensive guide to various aspects of preparing and using a business plan. It includes tools for analysing the market, customers, competitors, and the business environment; techniques for examining and choosing between alternative strategic options; and a business planning model to help prepare financial forecasts.
Call Number: onlineISBN: 1847651151Publication Date: 2004
Value Proposition Design by
The authors of the international bestseller Business Model Generation explain how to create value propositions customers can't resist Value Proposition Design helps you tackle the core challenge of every business -- creating compelling products and services customers want to buy. This highly practical book, paired with its online companion, will teach you the processes and tools you need to create products that sell. Using the same stunning visual format as the authors' global bestseller, Business Model Generation, this sequel explains how to use the "Value Proposition Canvas" to design, test, create, and manage products and services customers actually want. Value Proposition Design is for anyone who has been frustrated by new product meetings based on hunches and intuitions; it's for anyone who has watched an expensive new product launch fail in the market. The book will help you understand the patterns of great value propositions, get closer to customers, and avoid wasting time with ideas that won't work. You'll learn the simple process of designing and testing value propositions, that perfectly match customers' needs and desires. In addition the book gives you exclusive access to an online companion on Strategyzer.com. You will be able to assess your work, learn from peers, and download pdfs, checklists, and more. Value Proposition Design is an essential companion to the "Business Model Canvas" from Business Model Generation, a tool embraced globally by startups and large corporations such as MasterCard, 3M, Coca Cola, GE, Fujitsu, LEGO, Colgate-Palmolive, and many more. Value Proposition Design gives you a proven methodology for success, with value propositions that sell, embedded in profitable business models."
Call Number: onlineISBN: 1118968077Publication Date: 2015-01-28
Sample Business Plans
Business Plans Handbook (in print) by Call Number: HD62.7 .B865 (Lippincott Information Desk)ISBN: 1414468342Business Plans Handbook is a multiple volume collection of actual business plans.
- Business Plans Handbook from Gale Virtual Reference LibraryOnline versions of the Business Plans Handbook starting with Vol. 39, 2017.
- Business Plans Handbook Vol. 1-11From referenceforbusiness.com
Websites
BPlans.com has a section titled: Writing a Business Plan
SBA.gov: Write Your Business Plan
SCORE : Business Plans and Financial Statements Templates Gallery
Capital One: Business Plan Workbook
Business Plans Index - compiled by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, includes both free and subscription resources