A business plan is a document that lays out an entire company's goals and plans for reaching those goals. (Note that a marketing plan is a specific element of a business plan. For more information about marketing plans, see Creating a Marketing Plan.)
Business plan information can be found using the following:
You can use business databases such as ABI/INFORM Collection and Business Source Ultimate to find information about business plans. Search terms that may be useful for your research include:
For your research, you may want to combine these terms and/or search for variations of the terms.
For example, searching for "business plan*" OR "business strateg*" OR "strategic plan*" will find documents that contain any or all of the phrases listed above.
The Statista database contains PowerPoint and Excel templates that can be used to build a business plan.
There are numerous print books available in USMAI Book Search, the UMGC Library catalog, that discuss how to create business plans. These include:
You can find information about creating a business plan by using the Library's ebook databases to search for:
"business plan*"
There are many resources on the free Web that can be used to find information about how to create a business plan.