This document is the 2010 update to our Team Business Plan and Team Continuity Plan.
The Business Plan includes details of the team, history, organization, membership, goals, financial plans and other information.
The Continuity Plan (sometimes referred to as our “plan of doom”) identifies what we see as risks to our program and the steps we are taking now or that we will take if certain events happen (loss of a major sponsor, loss of a key mentor, loss of our building space, major injury, etc.)
I like the section on ‘doom’ - forward looking risk analysis. It is something teams need to pay more attention to instead of recognition ‘after the fact’.
We are currently working on our “annual report to stakeholders” - similiar to a for-profits “annual report to shareholders”.
The doom section reminds me of an annual report I read on a cookie manufacturer a few years ago. They had a section on how upward fertilizer and fuel prices made peanut butter price go up with corresponding downward pressure on cookie profit margins.