Executive Summary Writing
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It provides the investor with the core statements and conclusions of your enterprise ______ and success factors.

strategy

Investors, bankers and representatives of investment groups get lots of business plans on their desks every ______.

day

They may not read the whole ______.

documents

But they usually read the executive summary ______, in order to quickly check, whether a review of the complete document would be worthwhile.

<p>first</p> Signup and view all the answers

Provided the executive summary sounds ______, the reader will feel encouraged to read the whole business plan.

<p>promising</p> Signup and view all the answers

On the other hand, if the executive summary does not convince at ______ sight, even a good business plan could be rejected.

<p>first</p> Signup and view all the answers

Hence, avoid postponing the essential information to the later sections of your business plan, as most readers will not give you another chance if the main concerns are not already embodied in the executive ______.

<p>summary</p> Signup and view all the answers

Figures and facts resulting from your data analysis (chapter 2) must be ______ represented.

<p>perfectly</p> Signup and view all the answers

Otherwise, readers will doubt and question the ______ of your whole business plan.

<p>plausibility</p> Signup and view all the answers

A short description of the ______, the success formula and unique selling propositions on the market: You must convince the investor that your products and innovations will prove to be competitive on the relevant market.

<p>market</p> Signup and view all the answers

Therefore, it is especially important to know your target ______, its trends, the needs and preferences of your customers and the services provided by your competitors.

<p>market</p> Signup and view all the answers

A concise presentation of your competitive advantages: Show in brief with which strategies you operate successfully on your market and how you have already distinguished yourself from your ______ and intend to do so in future.

<p>competitors</p> Signup and view all the answers

Explain your operative strategies (manufacturing, procurement, logistics and ______) to your investor in a few sentences.

<p>marketing</p> Signup and view all the answers

A short description of the products and services: Describe your products and services and thereby mention the essential features, in particular the unique selling ______.

<p>propositions</p> Signup and view all the answers

It is also possible to first refer to the exceptional features in the choice and compilation of your product ______.

<p>portfolio</p> Signup and view all the answers

Explain your production technology, product development and the arising ______ involved with them.

<p>expenses</p> Signup and view all the answers

Reference to your communication methods: Briefly mention which communication methods you use to increase public awareness of the product and to position your product in the relevant ______.

<p>market</p> Signup and view all the answers

Key financial data: Here you should give an insight into relevant financial data, e.g.annual revenue, sales volumes and costs for a period of three to five ______.

<p>years</p> Signup and view all the answers

Nothing would divert Ford from this ______ and he put it into practice.

<p>vision</p> Signup and view all the answers

This was the birth of one of the world’s leading car ______.

<p>manufacturers</p> Signup and view all the answers

Without visions enterprises, as a rule, fail at the slightest signs of ______, or they decline into destructive compromises.

<p>change</p> Signup and view all the answers

The vision delivers the “subject” of your ______.

<p>enterprise</p> Signup and view all the answers

The mission describes the purpose of the enterprise, its strategies, behaviour patterns and ______.

<p>values</p> Signup and view all the answers

In the so called mission statement you should briefly and precisely describe your company, explain what you would like to do and how you will be able to assert yourself in ______ with other companies.

<p>competition</p> Signup and view all the answers

Peter Drucker wrote in his management book “Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices” that the fact that an enterprise's purpose and task are rarely thought over in an adequate manner, might be the most significant reason for the ______ and breakdown of a company.

<p>failure</p> Signup and view all the answers

The task of an enterprise may lie in the manufacturing of products that provide benefits for a target group, for instance the production of Aspirin, or in the supply of services in health care, as for instance the medical services of a general ______.

<p>practitioner</p> Signup and view all the answers

The business purpose gives a third party insight into what you are aiming ______.

<p>at</p> Signup and view all the answers

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