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Can you do it on one page?

Jill Hurst-Wahl has an interesting link post at the SLA Leadership and Management Division blog.

She links to two simple documents that help units in a large organization, as well as entire organizations, do business plans.

Anyway, even if these just end up being executive summaries or handouts for staff and colleagues, one pagers are a good idea to polish up your thinking and communication.

Offered up are a "One Page Marketing Plan Guide" (2+ pages) that links to a real one-page marketing plan template! and the same stuff for a one-page business plan.

Check out the links in the blog post.

The thinking is hard but the reading and communication need to be simple for all players to get on board. This process needs to be simple. These two tools might be helpful to you.

While I am at it I should mention Ulla de Stricker's forthcoming book:

Business Cases for Information Professionals: Here?s Why, Here?s How
Information Today, Inc - Forthcoming in mid-2008

Intended as a template and instruction guide for those needing to produce business cases to support proposals for investments in information and related human resources, the book covers the reasons why management needs a ?sales instrument? and illustrates with sample templates/cases the typical components and progression of a business case document.

I know it will be great. Recommended.

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on February 06, 2008 (boomark / email).