Business Plan Development
Teaching Staff: Mylonas Naoum
Course Code: MNG220
Course Category: Skills Development
Course Type: Elective
Course Level: Undergraduate
Course Language: Greek
Semester: 8th
ECTS: 5
Total Hours: 4
Teaching Structure:
Activity | Semester Workload |
---|---|
Lectures | 52 |
Projects | 13 |
Literature Study and Analysis | 30 |
Practice and Preparation | 30 |
Course Total (ECTS: 5) | 125 |
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- effectively use all tools and good practices for developing business plans
- analyze the external business environment in depth to develop appropriate market and competition analysis strategies
- develop appropriate purchase policies for the business under design
- carry out realistic financial planning
- develop critical thinking in the investigation of challenges and dynamics for the development of new business
Week 1: The concept and usefulness of the business plan
Week 2: Business Plan Structure - Key Points in Writing a Business Plan - Staff Summary
Week 3: Analysis of the company's internal environment
Week 4: Analysis of the company's external environment
Week 5: Marketing plan
Week 6: Production and Operations Plan
Week 7: Management Plan - SWOT Analysis
Week 8: Finance plan
Week 9: Financial plan
Week 10: Risk analysis and sensitivity analysis
Week 11: Scheduling milestones for setting up the new business
Week 12: Lean Business Plan
Week 13: Oral presentation - assessment of group work in the form of business plans
Barringer, B.R. (2015) Preparing effective business plans: An entrepreneurial approach. 2nd Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall
- Lectures
- Analysis of case studies
- Oral presentation of assignments
- Use of ICTs in Teaching: Electronic Classroom Management System (Open eClass), presentation editor, teacher's notes in pdf, spreadsheets
- Use of ICTs in Communication: Communication with students is achieved using the Electronic Class Management System (Open eClass) and Electronic Mail
- 50% final written exam
- 40% group written work in the form of a business plan
- 10% oral presentation of group work
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