Introduces students to the business plan and explains how it can be used to describe and analyze a business opportunity, to examine its feasibility and to develop strategies to turn an opportunity into a business project. It also explains how it must be adapted based on the audience, the objective and its degree of development and how it is a document that is “never finished.”

A generic model of a business plan is suggested and then there is a detailed description of the executive summary and each part of the plan including the introduction, project champions team, business model, sector analysis, strategy for implementation of the business model, legal structure, economic-financial analysis, risks and mitigation and conclusions.