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This document provides a checklist for developing a business plan using a SWOT analysis framework. The checklist includes key activities such as defining the company's mission statement, identifying market segments and value proposition, researching barriers to entry and risks, finding underserved opportunities in the current market, analyzing primary and secondary competitors, and developing strategies to mitigate competitive threats. The checklist also includes columns to assign owners and completion dates for each activity.

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Company Name: Business Planning Checklist

This document provides a checklist for developing a business plan using a SWOT analysis framework. The checklist includes key activities such as defining the company's mission statement, identifying market segments and value proposition, researching barriers to entry and risks, finding underserved opportunities in the current market, analyzing primary and secondary competitors, and developing strategies to mitigate competitive threats. The checklist also includes columns to assign owners and completion dates for each activity.

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Company Name

Business Planning Checklist


Using the Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat (SWOT) analysis framework, develop a checklist of
the key activities that need to be performed when preparing a formal business plan in the table below.

Activity Owner Completion Date


Strengths: Define the company’s current
mission statement.
Strengths: Identify market segments in which
the company will participate by conducting
primary and secondary market research.
Strengths: Identify the company’s value
proposition and how it will differentiate itself
within the marketplace.
Weaknesses: Identify any barriers to market
entry (e.g. capital requirements, technical
barriers, patents and process barriers) that the
company needs to overcome.
Weaknesses: Identify any risks inherent to the
organization that need to be mitigated so that
the company can realize the business plan.
Opportunities: Identify areas where the current
market is underserved that provide an
opportunity for the company.
Opportunities: Identify any key processes,
intellectual capital or other resources that the
company can use to its advantage in the
marketplace.
Threats: Identify primary competitors, and then
analyze competitor performance by using all
available data and additional data that can be
verified.
Threats: Identify secondary and potential future
competitors that might affect the business plan.
Threats: Develop strategies for mitigating
primary and secondary competitive threats.
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