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Final Project: Business Plan Deliverable Project

DIRECTIONS:

Overview:

Once in management, you will have a team and will be responsible to drive an organization to success. The tool used in this case is a “Business Plan”. There are many different versions but most depict the same areas as key to the plan formulation.

As an ITM specialist, you need to be able to build and IT business plan showing that you can manage an organization from the mission and vision of the organization to controlling your finance budget. This is a skill that is greatly valued by companies today – to have an employee that can drive a group/team to successfully run their sector of the business and be able to help a company capitalize on it. Equally, if you are an entrepreneur, most banks or investors would not invest without such a business plan as it helps them to know if you really can manage the organization and manage their investment well.

Thus, the final project for this class consists of developing a business plan for company or department or group. The plan must be scalable to the course timing (which is the last 8 weeks). Thus, all topics for this deliverable must be approved by the professor in advance of delivering a finished product. Your plan is yours to develop but it MUST have an IT sector. Discussion on ideas for plans will be held in class or as discussions (one-on-one) with the instructor but you should be thinking about your topic from the first day of class.

IT Governance:

Because you are in ITM, you will need to add in a technology governance model. There are many out there but REQUIRED for this project is to have the following 5 items showing how you plan to govern your IT solution:

Resources:

There are many resources that can be helpful to use, including talking to the professor. For this class, there is a LIBRARY GUIDE that has been developed which has information on business plans. There are several You-Tubes and books that might be of help by simply “googling” business plans. There are equally great books on this as well. I highly recommend “The Definitive Business Plan” by Richard Stutely (3rd) and is it a great reference book for the future as well. There are many databases within the school library that can provide you historical and current data to assist you in this project

Syllabus Instructions: Development of a Business Plan for a selected product .

Development of a Business Plan for a selected organization. The project outcome will be a detailed Business Plan including sections on the company, market and competitor analysis, product strategies, market plan, manufacture plan, financial data, investment data, compliance. “5-Pillar Model”, and overall executive summary. This plan will be formally submitted and should be error free and typed with no more than 20-25 pages excluding attachments and bibliography (at least 10 bibliography sites are required); font at 10-11; spacing at 1.5; margins- normal. The student will present their Business Plan in the form of a formal presentation of no more than 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions This presentation and PPT/paper will be due on the last day of class.

Table of Contents Format

(this table of Contents is a process and serves as a logic check on your work. All bold items MUST BE in your paper/table of contents as these are critical sections in this type of paper. You can add more sections but can NOT remove sections.)

Cover Page

Preface

Table of Contents

Sections:

1. Executive Summary (should be no more than 1-2 pages)

0. Brief overview of what the reader expects to see as they read further into the plan – highlighting key areas)

1. Analysis of the company: (What the company/department does in brief )

1. History of the organization (company OR department)

1. Company/Department Strategies, Mission, Vision, Metrics

1. Business Drivers

1. Business Model Used

1. Product and Services Delivery Model

1. Tools that maybe used.

5. SWOT Analysis

5. PESTLE Analysis (see below)

5. Others…Google this topic but your choice but remember data drives this section

1. Market and Competitor Analysis: (Overview of key competitors and industry the company OR department resides in. So, if doing an IT Department within Google for Data Security, the market is “Data Security” and not what Google does. Your competitor is an outsourcing company that does data security and NOT a major search engine company who competes with Google)

2. Industry Environmental Scan

2. Major Competitors and Their Status in the Industry (what are they doing you are not? Should you be doing the same thing?)

2. Tools Used;

2. SWOT Analysis

2. Porter’s 5 Forces

2. PESTLE Analysis (see below)

2. Others…Google this topic to see other ways to analyze this section

1. Operating Plans (Marketing, Manufacturing, and Department Plans (Major section for the Plan and requires a large devotion of the paper here)

3. In General – Operating Plan:

0. Value Analysis of the Plan

0. Risk Analysis (make sure to give mitigation for any risk, how would you mitigate the risk?)

0. Process Value Analysis (here you might consider how outsourcing might help or hinder your processes. What are your major processes?)

0. Key Assumptions and Options Analysis (what are 3-5 assumptions for the plan and what are 2-3 options that you looked at in the plan)

0. Leadership and Management Styles

0. Organizational Chart

0. IT Governance Plan (see above & MUST BE IN PRESENTATION )

3. Marketing and Manufacturing Plans (these are only needed if you are doing a company or if you are an entrepreneur doing a new business. In either of these cases, please see the instructor for further explanation. If you are not in this category, you do not need to submit a Marketing or Manufacturing Plan for this exercise but note that it is required in real life.)

1. Financial Analysis (MUST BE IN PRESENTATION)

4. Operating Expense Proposed Budget

4. Capital Expense Proposed Budget

4. ROI, Profit and Loss Statement (these are only needed if you are doing a company or if you are an entrepreneur doing a new business. In either of these cases, please see the instructor for further explanation. If you are not in this category, you do not need to submit these for this exercise but note that it is required in real life.)

1. Conclusion – in detail

5. Plan Recap (restated what your plan is about and why it is important for the executives to release resources to help you run your business)

References (at least10 sites)

Appendices

Appendix A-1: Papers, articles, readings that contribute to this business plan

Appendix A-2: Business Plan analysis process used and other detail documentation needed to for “proof points”

Business Analysis:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2016/02/04/the-18-best-analytics-tools-every-business-manager-should-know/#325f284d5d39

https://www.business-to-you.com/scanning-the-environment-pestel-analysis/