Ninety percent of businesses don't have a written plan for success. Fortunately, local business owners and executives now have a powerful resource to help them easily create a compelling blueprint to transform their company. 

Failure to plan has repeatedly been identified as a major cause of business failure; an upcoming June 12 workshop is an opportunity to avoid this pitfall. To find out more about the workshop, click here.

Adrian Bray of Adrian Bray and Associates, a business consultancy based in San Luis Obispo, has now introduced the One Page Business Plan to the Central Coast. The One Page Plan is a methodology for quickly creating a compact but immensely powerful "business blueprint." 

"The One Page Business Plan results in a precise and concise written blueprint for a company or non-profit’s future and is an invaluable management tool to ensure things get done," Bray said. "The five key questions that I ask business owners force them to think rigorously about how they are going to grow their business. The One Page Plan is all about injecting order and discipline into business operations."

Using this system, Bray helps owners and executives rapidly craft a complete plan for their business on a single sheet of paper – a plan that they actually use to manage day-to-day. 

The One Page Business Plan system is supported by Point Click Plan!, intuitive software that helps executives quickly draft their plan. The web-based One Page Planning And Performance System takes the concept a step further by allowing larger companies to create a business plan for every manager in the company, monitor progress against those plans and ensure their implementation using Scorecards and Progress Reports.

The One Page Plan methodology was developed by Jim Horan of Berkeley, Calif. and has inspired several best-selling business books. His most recent publication, The One Page Business Plan For Women in Business (co-authored with Tamara Monosoff, founder of the Mom Invented brand) won the 2010 San Francisco Book Festival award in the business category.

Visit www.adrianbray.com for more information.