Course Type: Blended
Course Code: bBP
Course Description: This course provides practical tools to design a comprehensive business plan. Learners will explore purpose, mission, and vision development, examine the market context and consumer behavior, identify and create business opportunities, align the people and organizational structure, forecast finances, and plan for risks and contingencies. Emphasis is placed on combining strategic thinking with persuasive business writing to communicate ideas effectively. By the end, students will produce a fully developed plan that integrates research, people, and strategy to support organizational growth and investment decisions.
Course Details:
- Target Audience: Family and MWR Program Managers
- Prerequisites: Family & MWR Orientation Course (online), Family & MWR Basic Management Course (Online),Operation Excellence – Online or Classroom Customer Service Training, Introduction to the Family & MWR Delivery System (online), and the Applied Financial Planning Suite (Applied Financial Planning – Retail Sales Accountability, Applied Financial Planning – Breakeven Analysis, Applied Financial Planning – Forecasting, Applied Financial Planning –Income Statement Analysis).
- Recommended but Not Required Program Specific Prerequisites: IMETS User Training (online), Child Youth and School Services personnel should also complete their appropriate Space Census Course (Online) and Mobilization and Contingency Planning (Online).
- Duration: 20 hours
- IACET CEUs: 2
- ACE Recommended Credits: 3 semester hours upper division level in management