Small Business Foresight

Since the mid-1900s, large corporations have been using scenarios, strategic planning, and long term action plans to prepare for their futures. Large businesses pioneered the methods of foresight for their own use, and those methods have proven very successful for them.
But… small business is different. The large business methods for planning for the future don’t fit small business, and that’s why this book was written.

Small Business Foresight is written for small businesses…one person or more! Detailed examples and clear illustrations make this book easy to read and apply to your small business.

Written by a professional futurist with over 50 years’ experience in small business, the tools and methods described in this book work. They are designed specifically for small business.
Here, those tools and methods are scaled down to fit small businesses.
The foresight tools explored in this book provide the foundation for Strategic thinking and planning.
•Trends
•Futures wheels
•Scenarios
•Driving forces
•Wild cards
•Vision
•Action plan
•Vulnerability analysis
•Gap analysis
•Contingency plans

Whether your business consists of just you, or includes dozens or even hundreds of employees, these methods work! In this book, you will learn about the stages of business growth, the forces of change that impact your business, trends that guide the forces, the importance of scenarios (stories about the future and how to write them), the value of strategic thinking and planning, how to create a long term plan for your business based on the strategies you develop, and more. Much more.
Read the book and build a plan for your business!