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Creating Business Plans

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Creating Business Plans

By: Harvard Business Review
Narrated by: James Edward Thomas
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A well-crafted business plan generates enthusiasm for your idea and boosts your odds of success—whether you're proposing a new initiative within your organization or starting an entirely new company. Creating Business Plans quickly walks you through the basics. You'll learn to:

- Present your idea clearly

- Develop sound financial plans

- Project risks—and rewards

- Anticipate and address your audience's concerns

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While the narration is clear and professional, the content feels outdated and underwhelming. It offers a surface-level walkthrough of business plan structure but lacks depth in critical areas. There is no discussion of modern essentials like identifying customer pains or applying Jobs-To-Be-Done (JTBD) frameworks. The Unique Value Proposition (UVP) is barely touched on, and there's no focus on how value is created or captured.

Additionally, the audiobook ignores broader stakeholder analysis beyond the customer, missing key groups like partners, regulators, or internal teams. There is no mention of modern tools such as Lean Canvas, Value Proposition Canvas, or iterative validation techniques. Finally, the accompanying PDF is disappointing—without even a sample business plan or framework to apply what was covered.

Not just basic—this guide feels stuck in a bygone era. If you're building a business in today's dynamic, user-centric world, this isn't enough.

Outdated and Oversimplified

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