MAKING IT HAPPEN FLOW DIAGRAM Making it happen Idea shower – come up with as many ideas for your enterprise as you can. Evaluate your ideas and focus on the best ones – not too many though! Develop your ideas more fully – what are the risks and opportunities? Get into the detail. of the idea. Plan, plan and plan some more. What resources will you need for your enterprise? Time? Finance? People? Premises? Advertising? Customers? Put together a business plan showing how you will organise these factors. Create a to do list based on your business plan and allocate tasks according to the skills and abilities you have. Find out where you can access resources you don’t have. Make it happen. Put your idea into practice and evaluate as you go along. UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS (NATIONAL 5, BUSINESS MANAGEMENT) © Crown copyright 2012