The Business Motivation Model

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Identify all the different elements of your business plan.

Have you ever had to develop a business plan for your organization or for a new business?

If you have, then you know how difficult it can be to get it right. There are many different elements to consider, and it can be easy to overlook factors that may have a positive or negative effect on your success.

This is where it can be helpful to use the Business Motivation Model. This tool offers a practical way of sense-checking and optimizing your plan. By using it, you can develop a resilient business plan – one where you've explored the impact of internal and external influencers, and have adjusted the plan appropriately.

In this article, we'll look at what the Business Motivation Model is, and we'll explore how you can use it to improve business planning.

About the Model

The Business Motivation Model was originally developed by the Business Rules Group, a non-commercial consulting firm, in the late 1990s. Its goal was to help people prepare business plans in an ordered, efficient, properly-organized way.

Put simply, the Business Motivation Model helps you think about why you're creating a business plan, identify the essential elements that you need to include, and understand how all of these factors interact with one another. This helps you ensure that your business plan is robust and internally consistent, that it fairly explores the impact of the plan, and that it takes your business in a direction that is useful and valuable.

The model is not only useful for writing traditional business plans – you can also use it to plan projects and new processes.

There are four main elements to the model:...