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Plan Formats
Books and Articles
Research/Statistics
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In this section we've included some recommended books and articles; links to research and statistics resources; and coming soon -- sample business plan formats.
Sample Business Plan Formats
Coming Soon! For information on the factors that drive what format and approach to take with your business plan, please see Business Plans: What is the best format?
Books and Articles
Books:
- Competing
for the Future, by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad (Harvard Business
School Press, 1994). The single most important business book
of the 90s. Hamel and Prahalad advance a strategic architecture
which helps companies create the future by reinventing industries.
- Strategy
Pure and Simple: How Winning CEOs Outthink Their Competition,
by Michel Robert. (McGraw Hill, Inc., 1993) This book provides
an excellent foundation for the concept and process of strategic
visioning.
- The Discipline
of Market Leaders -- Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus,
Dominate Your Market, by Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema
(Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995).
- The Fifth
Discipline Fieldbook, by Peter Senge, et al (Doubleday, 1994).
Senge's practical guide to helping companies create a learning
organization.
- The Age of
Paradox, by Charles Handy, (Harvard Business School Press,
1994). Discusses how to manage the unintended consequences of
change -- the paradoxes of modern times.
- The Intelligent
Enterprise, by James Brian Quinn (Free Press, 1992).
- The Age of
the Network -- Organizing Principles for the 21st Century,
by Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps (Oliver Wight Publications,
Inc., 1994).
- Reengineering
the Corporation, by Michael Hammer and James Champy (Harper
Business, 1993),
- Built to
Last -- Successful Habits of Visionary Companies,
by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras (Harper Business, 1994).
- The New
Positioning -- The Latest on the World's #1 Business Strategy,
by Jack Trout with Steve Rivkin (Business McGraw-Hill, 1996).
- Vital Signs: Using Quality, Time and Cost Performance Measurements to Chart Your Company's Future, by Steven M. Hronec, Arthur Andersen (AMACOM, 1993).
- Value Migration
-- Strategies to Preempt the Markets of Tomorrow, by Adrian
J. Slywotzky (Harvard Business School Press, 1995).
Articles:
- What is Strategy,
by Michael E. Porter, Harvard Business Review, November-December,
1996.
- Competing for
the Future, by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, Harvard Business
Review, July--August, 1994. Based on their book, Competing
for the Future, this article provides a good overview of
the authors' approach to forecasting the future.
- Leading Change:
Why Transformation Efforts Fail, by John B. Kotter, Harvard
Business Review, March-April, 1995.
- Value Innovation:
The Strategic Logic of High Growth, by W. Chan Kim and Renee
Mauborgne, Harvard Business Review, January-February 1997
Research and Statistics
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