Background: A business plan (BP) is an essential tool for companies, supporting strategic planning, financial acquisition, and stakeholder communication. Despite its importance, BP drafting lacks a standardized approach in both academic research and business practice. This study aims to develop...

Whether or not business planning is useful for entrepreneurs is a critical question both academically and practically. While some studies suggest that structured business planning enhances business performance, others argue that it may be unnecessary or even counterproductive in uncertain...

Information technology (IT) strategic planning plays a pivotal role in enhancing the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), improving operational efficiency and decision-making, and fostering innovation. This systematic review aims to synthesize the impacts of IT strategic...

The second Horizon Europe strategic plan will steer research and innovation funding within and beyond Europe, to tackle the key global challenges such as climate change, pollution and loss of biodiversity, the digital transition and an ageing population. From fundamental research to breakthrough...

The evolution of rural settlement planning has the potential to improve regional sustainability through aligning components of human settlement ecosystems. In this study, we promoted the integration of sustainability in 23 rural communes of Rehamna province (central Morocco). We assessed rural...

The financial institutions in emerging countries in general and Ethiopia in particular, where financial dualism is mostly practiced, strategic planning is critical to encounter the dynamic nature of the economic system. This study aims to examine the impact of strategic planning on the...

Background: The ongoing technical innovation is fully involving transportation sector, converting the usual mass-transit system toward a sustainable mobility. Make-or-buy decision are usually adopted to assess different solutions in terms of costs-benefits to put in place strategic choices...

Planning stability or its counterpart, planning nervousness, is a challenging issue for many companies as well as for scientists who try to analyze and explain this phenomenon. Research in this area mainly concentrates on the field of production and materials planning where current replanning...

Business and distribution strategy planning are usually carried out in a sequence. A company first devises a business plan and then a distribution strategy able to accommodate it. The separation in planning can lead to a sub-optimal decision. We propose a method of how to concurrently plan both...

One of the reasons businesses fail is that they are not adequately planned or conceived. As an entrepreneur, finance, and business management professor, I have been approached severally by startuppers to multinationals on various management and consulting projects. One thing stands out like the...

This book covers the key steps in designing, implementing and administering a formal strategic planning process and provides practical guidance on the elements of a business plan and the steps that should be taken to create a business plan that can be used for execution of strategy and...

While the success of any new business is dependent on a number of factors—the specific business model, technological advantages, the skills and talents of the management team, and competitive and other environmental factors—it is now well understood and accepted that companies often rise or...

Even though the evidence is strong that the likelihood of success for a new business increase when the members of the management team embrace some sort of formal planning process from the outset, it is still tempting for entrepreneurs to charge bravely into the fray in pursuit of their dreams of...

One of the distinctive characteristics of an emerging company is the significant level of “innovation” associated with its business model, with innovation being thought of as the process of successfully acquiring and implementing new ideas within a business company. Successful innovation...

Will discuss how the German giant Lidl plans to take expansionary steps in a Mexican or Norwegian market to add to its success records in the European and North American markets. Lidl began modestly in 1973 with a small shop that had three members and offers 500 products to 10,500 stores in...

Recent legislation promotes the adoption of Circular Economy (CE) principles in restructuring supply chains (SCs), being aimed at circling back - through reusing, remanufacturing and recycling actions- end-of-life (EoL) products into production networks. In this sense, the appropriate design of...

This paper proposes a knowledge-based customer-centric strategic model to respond to environmental challenges and achieve sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) in the supply chain management (SCM) context. The proposed model strives to leverage knowledge-based distinctive core competencies...

The growth of digital platforms and information sharing in the supply chain and logistics arena has considerably improved cross-departmental and inter-organizational collaboration. A competitor backs another competitor to support their transportation and logistics activities for mutual benefit...

FRA's raison d'être is to do all it can to achieve a future in which all persons across the EU are treated with dignity and respect, and have full enjoyment of the fundamental rights and freedoms to which they are entitled. Our strategy for the 2023-2028 sets out three main priorities that we...

Having a fruitful relationship with all levels of management can increase the likelihood of better opportunities within and outside the organization. In some environments, it is known that participation in strategic planning creates better overall conditions for all partners, better conditions...

In the context of changing global trends and growing uncertainties, creating and evaluating alternative future scenarios is crucial for urban and regional planning. Computational and collaborative approaches are two contemporary options for scenario planning. They have distinct roles and are...

In early project phases, cross-functional collaboration is required to lead a capital project from an investment option to a full definition before its design and construction commenced. Given that many capital projects are large, complex, and take years to develop, for stakeholders to realize...

Once a foundational principle and milestone in the launch of a new business, business plans have been criticized as dinosaurs and symbols of old and stale management practices. Just push forward and fix mistakes as they come up is often the wisdom imparted by entrepreneurial gurus. While it may...

Teil 1: Grundlagen von Innovationsmanagement und Zukunftstechnologien -- Teil 2: Innovation im Wandel - Wie Zukunftstechnologien Innovation im Unternehmen verändern -- Teil 3: Innovative Nachhaltigkeit -- Teil 4: Nachhaltige Innovation -- 5: Zusammenfassung und Formulierung von...

"This book presents a contemporary view of the approaches and theories that inform global scenario planning and foresight science, providing practical recommendations for improving scenario development processes. Its insights bridge the gap between last century's foundations and this century's...

The interest by consumers in the coffee house industry is sweeping the country. DUNGOG Cafe is positioned to bring this to the Busay Hills, Cebu City area. It is a spot frequented by both locals and tourists for its captivating beauty, cool air, and peaceful vibe. It is also the highest point...

The article raises the issue of using the historical experience of planning initiated by the establishment of the State Planning Committee in Soviet Russia in 1921. Of course, literal borrowing of the Soviet directive planning model is out of the question. However, it has also been proved in...

Strategic management is the effort of managing an organization's resources to achieve its goals and objectives, by involving setting goals, analyzing the competitive environment, analyzing internal organizations, evaluating strategies, and ensuring that management rolls out strategies throughout...