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Based on Growing Your Own Business:
A Workbook by Ron Immink and Brian O'Kane, published by Oak Tree Press, ISBN 1 86076 238 7.

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[Captain Woodrow F] Call ignored him, trying to think of some way to salvage the trip. Though he had always been a careful planner, life on the frontier had long ago convinced him of the fragility of plans. The truth was, most plans did fail, to one degree or another, for one reason or another. He had survived as a [Texas] Ranger because he was quick to respond to what he had actually found, not because his planning was infallible.
Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove, published by Pocket Books, New York, 1985

How Do You Get To Where You Want To Be? ...

The only way to answer this question is through a rigorous process of business planning. Business planning is inescapable. It's not easy, but it's not rocket-science either.

Growing Your Own Business: A Workbook shows you how to engage in the process of business planning, using the SPOTcheck® assessment model to direct your efforts.

Business planning requires:

  • Sustained clear thinking, away from the everyday pressures of the business
  • The ability to make links between different aspects of the business and to explore them fully
  • The ability to understand the key questions that determine business success or failure
  • A willingness to consider and explore alternatives
  • A vision of, and clear commitment, to the future.

Without these, business planning - and real prospects of growth - are more likely to fail than to succeed.

Use the exercises in Growing Your Own Business: A Workbook by Ron Immink and Brian O'Kane, and the SPOTcheck® assessment model, to help you to get where you want to be.

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Growing Your Own Business: A Workbook by Ron Immink and Brian O'Kane, published by Oak Tree Press, ISBN 1 86076 238 7,
was developed with the support of InterTradeIreland and Equity Network