Business Plan Model for Bio-energy Companies

摘要

A solid business plan is an important tool for managing any business. It forms up the foundation of the business as well as discusses how important challenges should be solved. Rather often also third parties like financing institutions are interested in of the business plans as they inform them about the future targets of the companies applying for funding. This paper defines a business plan model for the bio-energy companies. It discusses about the important issues and topics needed in preparing any business plan. It motivates us to see the importance of business planning activities and ties them together with the everyday management of the bio-energy company. After building a business plan model for the bio-energy companies this paper presents the results of an industrial bio-energy seminar where the developed model was discussed in practice and in an industrial context. The industrial discussion has been seen important because all business plans are practical tools for managing businesses rather than theoretical tools without practical relevance. The discussion comments show clearly that the proposed business plan model is usable for the bio-energy companies. It serves bio-energy entrepreneurs and financing institutions as action plan, road map and sales tool and also informs customers about the bio-energy company's ways of working. The theoretical discussion in this paper is constructive in nature. Therefore the theoretical part of this paper constructs new reality by using results which in part have been presented before and have proven to be usable. However, as all businesses are different and understanding of them is vital for making any business plans offers this paper also a solid basis for planning bio-energy businesses by analyzing their nature as well. The industrial experience part of this paper is a case study in nature. The case study method has been chosen because it offers a natural and practical tool for presenting the chronological discussion kept in the industrial experiences seminar.