Business Objectives and Strategy

Lesson Plans, Mind Maps and Activities for Educators

Accounts Worksheets [Virtual Factory Accounts Department] (Activities)
Advertising and Children - Advertising Sweets: What is 'Good Marketing?' (Activities)
Advertising and Children - Advertising Sweets: What is 'Good Marketing?' (Activities)
Advertising Sweets: What is 'Good Marketing?' (Lesson plans)
A Note of Caution! - Functional Areas of a Business (Activities)
Between the Sheets - Accounting (Activities)
Between the Sheets - Business Studies (Activities)
Between the Sheets - Economics (Activities)
Break-Even Analysis (Lesson plans)
Business Analysis and Sales Forecasting - Activity (Activities)
Business Analysis and Sales Forecasting - Lesson Plan (Lesson plans)
Business Analysis - Mind Map (Mind maps)
Business Communication: Interpreting Communication (Activities)
Business Communications (Lesson plans)
Business Communications: Basic Communications Model (Activities)
Business Communications: Successful and unsuccessful communication (Activities)
Business Communications: What is communication? (Activities)
Business Economics - Activity (Activities)
Business Forecasting - Activity (Activities)
Business Forecasting - Lesson Plan (Lesson plans)
Business Forecasting - Mind Map (Mind maps)
Business Growth - Activity (Activities)
Business Growth - Lesson Plan (Lesson plans)
Business Growth - Mind Map (Mind maps)
Business Location - Lesson Plan (Lesson plans)
Business Location - Mind Map (Mind maps)
Business Objectives - Mind Map (Mind maps)
Business Objectives: Public and Private Sector - Activity (Activities)
Business Objectives: Public and Private Sector - Lesson Plan (Lesson plans)
Business Organisation - Activity (Activities)
Business Organisation - Lesson Plan (Lesson plans)
Business Organisation - Mind Map (Mind maps)
Business Organisations (Lesson plans)
Business Organisations - Mind Map (Mind maps)
Business Ownership: Introduction (Lesson plans)
Business Ownership: Private Sector - Activity (Activities)
Business Ownership: Private Sector - Lesson Plan (Lesson plans)
Business Planning - Survival and Growth (Lesson plans)
Business Principles in Retail - Overview (Lesson plans)
Business Principles in Retail - Overview (Lesson plans)
Business Principles in Retail - Overview (Lesson plans)
Business Principles in Retail - Tasks (Activities)
Business Principles in Retail - Tasks (Activities)
Business Principles in Retail - Tasks (Activities)
Business Service Provision (Lesson plans)
Business Strategy - Activity (Activities)
Business Strategy - Activity 2 (Activities)
Business Strategy - Activity 2 (Lesson plans)
Business Strategy - Lesson Plan (Lesson plans)
Business Strategy - Mind Map (Mind maps)
Business Strategy - Mind Map (Mind maps)
Business Success (Activities)
Business Success (Activities)
Business Success (Activities)
Business Success (Activities)
Business Success and Business Failure - What is Enterprise? (Activities)
Business Success and Failure 1 (Lesson plans)
Business Success and Failure 2 (Lesson plans)
Business Survival, Profit and Growth (Lesson plans)
Case study - Business planning - Business bank - Virtual Bank of Biz/ed (Activities)
Company Growth Worksheet [Virtual Factory Accounts Department] (Activities)
Competition in Markets (Lesson plans)
Competition - Mind Map (Mind maps)
Conflicts Between Stakeholders (Activities)
Creative Corporate Communication (Lesson plans)
Critical Path Analysis - Activity (Activities)
Critical Path Analysis - Mind Map (Mind maps)
Customer Service - Overview (Lesson plans)
Customer Service - Tasks (Activities)
Decision Trees - Activity (Activities)
Decision Trees - Lesson Plan (Lesson plans)
Decision Trees - Mind Map (Mind maps)
Developing a Promotional Campaign (Lesson plans)
E-Commerce (Lesson plans)
Efficiency - The Nature of Production (Activities)
Ensuring Relevant and Accurate Information: Freedom of Information Act (Lesson plans)
Examples of Two Different Businesses - Functional Areas of a Business (Activities)
Final Task (Activities)
Final Task and Extension Work - Introduction to Business Activity (Activities)
Final Task - Knowing your Customers (Activities)
Final Task - What is Enterprise? (Activities)
Forms of Business Ownership in the Private Sector - Mind Map (Mind maps)
Functional Areas - Mind Map (Mind maps)
Functional Areas of a Business (Lesson plans)
Functional Areas of Business - Mind Map (Mind maps)
How are Businesses Classified? - Introduction to Business Activity (Activities)
How will a business react? (Activities)
Human Resource Management Worksheet [Virtual Factory Production Department] (Activities)
Identifying Market Segments - Knowing your Customers (Activities)
Improving Your Assessment Skills - Functional Areas of a Business (Activities)
International Business (Lesson plans)
International Business 2: Businesses and Exchange Rates (Lesson plans)
Introduction - Knowing your Customers (Activities)
Introduction - The Nature of Production (Activities)
Introduction to Business Activity (Lesson plans)
Introduction to Business Objectives (Lesson plans)
Introduction to Business Studies - Activity (Activities)
Introduction to Business Studies - Lesson Plan (Lesson plans)
Introduction - What is Enterprise? (Activities)
Investment Analysis Worksheet [Virtual Factory Production Department] (Activities)
Investment Appraisal - Activity (Activities)
Investment Appraisal - Mind Map (Mind maps)
Investment Appraisal Worksheet [TimeWeb] (Activities)
Knowing your Competition (Lesson plans)
Knowing your Stakeholders (Activities)
Knowing Your Stakeholders (Lesson plans)
Learning Journal - Functional Areas of a Business (Activities)
Making My Arguments Better: Stakeholders - Advertising Sweets: What is 'Good Marketing?' (Activities)
Market Capacity [Virtual Factory Marketing Department] (Activities)
Market Power, Competition and Regulation: Anti-Competitive Behaviour - Activity (Activities)
Market Research - Activity (Activities)
Market Research Methods in Travel and Tourism - Activity (Activities)
Market Research - Mind Map (Mind maps)
Mergers and Takeovers Worksheet [Virtual Factory Accounts Department] (Activities)
Mergers, Takeovers and Product Differentiation (Lesson plans)
More on Working Together: Activities - Functional Areas of a Business (Activities)
Organisational Functions 1 (Lesson plans)
Organisational Functions 2 (Lesson plans)
Organisational Structures (Lesson plans)
Organisational Structures and Communication (Lesson plans)
Organisational Structures and Communication - Activity (Activities)
Organisational Structures and Communication - Activity (Activities)
Other Measures of Success 2 (Activities)
Performance Monitoring (Lesson plans)
Performance Monitoring - Mind Map (Mind maps)
Presenting Research Findings (Lesson plans)
Production Operations - The Nature of Production (Activities)
Profit and Success (Activities)
Profit, Loss and Value Added: The Mobile Phone Industry - Activity (Activities)
Profit Margin (Activities)
Profits and Losses (Lesson plans)
Project Management (Lesson plans)
Public and Private Sector Activities - Introduction to Business Activity (Activities)
Quantitative and Qualitative Factors in Decision Making - Mind Map (Mind maps)
Quantitative versus Qualitative Decision Making - Activity (Activities)
Quantitative versus Qualitative Decision Making - Lesson Plan (Lesson plans)
Questions - Sources of finance - Finance - Business bank - Virtual Bank of Biz/ed (Activities)
Ratio Analysis - Activity (Activities)
Ratio Analysis - Mind Map (Mind maps)
Recruitment Worksheet (Student Version) (Activities)
Resolving Stakeholder Conflicts (Activities)
Retail Travel Operations - Activity (Activities)
Retail Travel Operations in the Travel & Tourism industry 2 - Activity (Activities)
Review and Learning Journal - Introduction to Business Activity (Activities)
Rights and Responsibilities (Activities)
Should Advertising of Sweets be Banned? - Advertising Sweets: What is 'Good Marketing?' (Activities)
Stages in Planning for a New Business Venture (Lesson plans)
Stages of Production - The Nature of Production (Activities)
Stakeholding Worksheet [Virtual Factory Purchasing Department] (Activities)
Starting up a Business - What is Enterprise? (Activities)
Stock Control - The Nature of Production (Activities)
Strategic Planning - Lesson Plan (Lesson plans)
Strategic Planning: Tesco - Activity (Activities)
The Aims and Objectives of a Business - Introduction to Business Activity (Activities)
The Business Plan (Student Version) (Activities)
The Characteristics of an Entrepreneur - What is Enterprise? (Activities)
The Importance of Working Together - Functional Areas of a Business (Activities)
The Nature of Production - Mind Map (Mind maps)
The Ownership of Travel and Tourism Organisations: Takeovers - Activity (Activities)
The Role and Characteristics of Stakeholders (Lesson plans)
The Stakeholder Economy (Activities)
The Stakeholder Model (Lesson plans)
The Structure of the Travel and Tourism Industry - Activity (Activities)
Tour Operations - Activity (Activities)
Trade Unions and Industrial Relations Worksheet (Student Version) (Activities)
Types of Business Organisation (Lesson plans)
Types of Market (Lesson plans)
Using Market Segments - Knowing your Customers (Activities)
Using your Information - Introduction to Business Activity (Activities)
Using your Knowledge - What is Enterprise? (Activities)
What are 'Functional Areas'? - Functional Areas of a Business (Activities)
What are Market Segments? - Knowing your Customers (Activities)
What are the Public and Private Sectors? - Introduction to Business Activity (Activities)
What Does Each Functional Area Do? - Functional Areas of a Business (Activities)
What Does the Competition Look Like? (Activities)
What is Enterprise? (Lesson plans)
What is the Business's Market Position? (Activities)
Where is the Competition Based? (Activities)
Who are the Customers? - Knowing your Customers (Activities)
Worksheet on Competition (Activities)
Worksheet on Location (Activities)

Case Studies

Acquisitions, Competition, Market Power and Regulation - 131003 (Mind Your Business)
All Gas and Profits? (Mind Your Business)
Always On Call? The Competitiveness of the UK's Call Centre Industry (Wanna Argument)
Barring Entry to Bouncers: Licensing Door Supervisors - 180405 (At Your Leisure)
Batteries Included (At Your Leisure)
Break-Even, Debts, Revenues and Costs - 160204 (Mind Your Business)
Building Brands - 241103 (Mind Your Business)
Business Accounting - 310105 (Problem Based Learning)
Business Ownership (Mind Your Business)
Business Survival - 130206 (Problem Based Learning)
Center Parcs UK PLC: Where Leisure and Tourism Meet - 310105 (At Your Leisure)
Changes in the Workplace (Mind Your Business)
Changing Markets and Competition - 4 September 2006 (Problem Based Learning)
Changing Markets, Changing Strategies - 031005 (Problem Based Learning)
Channel Hopping: Selling UK TV Abroad - 061204 (At Your Leisure)
Cheesed Off (At Your Leisure)
Dealing with Products and Managers that Fail: Corporate Cyanide and Executive Suicide (Wanna Argument)
Drugs, Big Business and Community Service (Wanna Argument)
Elvis Presley and Property Rights (Mind Your Business)
Farming and Diversification (Mind Your Business)
FlyBe: A Regional Specialist? (At Your Leisure)
Formula 1 - The Business of Money (Mind Your Business)
Franchises - Major League Baseball (Mind Your Business)
From DIY to DAY (Do Anything Yourself) to Makeover - 290304 (At Your Leisure)
Insurance (Mind Your Business)
Just the Ticket: Ticket Pricing in the UK - 280205 (At Your Leisure)
Kitted-Out: The Sports Clothing and Footwear Retailers - 111004 (At Your Leisure)
Life in Mars? (At Your Leisure)
Low Flying Fares - 010304 (At Your Leisure)
Marketing, Ethics, Mission Statements and Profits - 201003 (Mind Your Business)
Marketing Glastonbury - 081203 (Mind Your Business)
Market Power and Regulation - 8 May 2006 (Problem Based Learning)
Merger Mania and the Takeover Targets (Wanna Argument)
Mergers and Acquisitions (Mind Your Business)
Microbreweries: Brewing Up A Storm? (Wanna Argument)
Never in a Month of Sundays (At Your Leisure)
No Dice: UK Gambling Laws to Change - 251004 (At Your Leisure)
No Way to Run a Business? - 020204 (At Your Leisure)
Oligopolies, Fair Trade, Bananas and Protectionism - 190104 (Mind Your Business)
Outsourcing to India - 061204 (Problem Based Learning)
Price Sensitivity (Mind Your Business)
Takeovers and Business Growth (Mind Your Business)
Takeovers and Copyright (Mind Your Business)
The Labour Market and Industrial Relations - 051205 (Problem Based Learning)
The London Olympic Bid - Money Well Spent? (Mind Your Business)
The Name Game (At Your Leisure)
The Perfume Market (Mind Your Business)
The Power of Advertising (Mind Your Business)
Total Recall? (At Your Leisure)
UK Farmers: Crisis Point or Just More Bleating? (Wanna Argument)
What Price a Wedding? (Mind Your Business)
What's Wrong with Football? (At Your Leisure)

Blog articles

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Boeing and Airbus: Breaking the Duopoly 2 (Tourism blog article) 29 Jun 11
Boeing and Airbus: Breaking the Duopoly? (Tourism blog article) 28 Jun 11
Stay-at-Home Shoppers 3 (Boom and Bust blog article) 22 Jun 11
The World’s Biggest Company that Nobody’s Ever Heard of…. Until Now (Boom and Bust blog article) 25 May 11
Mergers, Acquisitions and Flotations 2 (Boom and Bust blog article) 24 May 11
Mergers, Acquisitions and Flotations (Boom and Bust blog article) 23 May 11

Business Focus

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Airbus and Boeing: The Battle for the Skies (Travel and Tourism podcast episode)
An Overview of Business Online (Notes)
Break-Even Analysis [Virtual Learning Arcade] (General Resources)
Case study - Investment - Finance - Business bank - Virtual Bank of Biz/ed (General Resources)
Cash Flow Forecast For Business Plan Worksheet (General Resources)
Changes in Break-Even [Virtual Learning Arcade] (General Resources)
Costs [Virtual Factory Design Department] (General Resources)
Data Accuracy and Psychological Pricing [TimeWeb] (General Resources)
Employee Volunteering (Notes)
Explanation - Sources of finance - Finance - Business bank - Virtual Bank of Biz/ed (General Resources)
Explanation - Types of business - Business planning - Business bank - Virtual Bank of Biz/ed (General Resources)
Financial planning - Business planning - Business bank - Virtual Bank of Biz/ed (General Resources)
Financial Projections For Business Plan Worksheet (General Resources)
Financial Ratio Analysis - Index (Notes)
For Better Or For Worse (General Resources)
Franchising as a Method of Business Expansion (Notes)
Gearing Ratio [Virtual Learning Arcade] (General Resources)
How Data Are Used By Businesses [TimeWeb] (General Resources)
Major Bottlenecks and Problems in the Purchasing Process (Notes)
Making Use of Resources, Capabilities and Core Competences. (Notes)
Measuring Business Performance (Notes)
Price Elasticity of Demand [Virtual Learning Arcade] (General Resources)
Profit & Loss Account [Virtual Learning Arcade] (General Resources)
Queasyjet: Changes in the Low-Cost Airline Sector (Travel and Tourism podcast episode)
Ratio Analysis [Virtual Learning Arcade] (General Resources)
Research and Development [Virtual Factory Design Department] (General Resources)
Sources of Company Growth [Virtual Factory Accounts Department] (General Resources)
Step 1 - Marketing planning - Business planning - Business bank - Virtual Bank of Biz/ed (General Resources)
The Business Plan (Tutor Version) (General Resources)
The Information Economy (Notes)
Theories - Investment - Finance - Business bank - Virtual Bank of Biz/ed (General Resources)
Theories - Sources of finance - Finance - Business bank - Virtual Bank of Biz/ed (General Resources)
Theories - Types of business - Business planning - Business bank - Virtual Bank of Biz/ed (General Resources)
The Timing of Market Entry (Notes)
Using Market Research Data [TimeWeb] (General Resources)