Wise planning lays the framework for successful small retail businesses. Many business startups begin with a simple business plan outlining the financial goals, methods and markets that affect the ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Investors and other plan readers pay careful attention to the part of your plan describing your operations. Most entrepreneurs are highly ...

To understand the difference between strategic planning and operational planning more easily, think of strategies as what you want to achieve and operations as how you will achieve it. Strategies are ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In their book Write Your Business Plan, the staff of Entrepreneur Media, Inc. offer an in-depth understanding of what’s essential to any ...

In most cases, entrepreneurs begin tackling the challenge of writing a business plan before the business exists. Doing that, of course, means that your plan will focus much more on the potential of ...

TORONTO-- The Canadian Federation of Independent Business has developed a customizable template that provides basic guidance for creating a COVID-19 operational plan. According to CFIB, "As different ...

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The old saying "every incident starts and ends at the local level," always seems to hold true. So what happens when you are the company or department that “starts” the event? From the arrival of the ...