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Our Next Meeting

Date/Time: 8/14/08, 7:00 pm
Location: Champlain College, Ireland Global Business & Technology Center Room 117
Speaker: Robert W. Bloch
Topic: "Entrepreneurship at Champlain College and Associated Resources for the Community"

The Business Planning Process in Real Time

How do growth companies manage change and stay focused? Cairn Cross, Managing Director of FreshTracks Capital will speak about the business planning/strategy process and share best practices and not so best practices that he has observed over the years.

Topics covered will include:

1)  What's the difference between a business plan and a business strategy?
2)  When and how do you define the parameters of a strategy?
3)  How does business strategy lend itself to the business plan?
4)  What is a business plan and should you have one?
5)  When to stick to your plan or abandon it and proceed in a new direction?
6)  Is the business planning process formal and static or informal and dynamic?
7)  Using technology tools to aid in the process.



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