Who Should Write Your Business Plan?
WHO SHOULD WRITE YOUR BUSINESS PLAN?
Who should write your business plan? We have developed a strong sense of direction in this area.
"Clearly, the best person to write the family business plan is the entreprenurial owner of the family business," according to top family business expert
Don Schwerzler
"It is your business... investors / lenders / customers
are relying on you to deliver the performance,
managers and employees rely upon your leadership,
as do your family members..."
Schwerzler has been studying and advising family businesses for more than 40 years and he is the founder of the
Family Business Institute
Who should write your business plan? We feel strongly that you must take ownership of your business plan. Are we suggesting you do it all by yourself? Absolutely not! In fact, we think that within reason, the more help you get the better.
For instance, if your business isn't large enough to have a marketing management team, by all means get help from marketing specialists to do market research.
Same for the financials. So why not get help with the word-crafting for your business plan?
"But", you say, "I'm a visionary, and anyway I'm too busy
running this place... and I'm not good with words..."
Who better to convey the
vision and mission
than the leader?
In whose belly will the fire burn stronger than in yours? Need
we state the obvious - that if there really is someone there
who has the fire burning more brightly than you, your
succession plan should be near completion to have that
person leading the company!
As for the words themselves - they are really not as important
as the message. Convey your message clearly and passionately, make sure that what you are saying is relevant to your reader, and the words will take care of themselves. Who should write your business plan? You should, but that does not mean you should not ask for input from others.
The larger your organization, the more help you will have
internally, so the more you can delegate. But, we feel that
you should retain ownership and champion the project even if most of it is delegated to others.
If you are larger, and have a specialized transaction coming up
such as bringing in a Venture Capital firm or are going to be
doing an IPO, then there is a strong case to use the guidance
of their specialized services to prepare the business plan. But they are going to have to build it from the basic information that you have - they can't create it "out of the blue".
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