31.   Information systems should be integrated with the business plan at all three layers of the management hierarchy.

32.   With the growing emphasis on information technology for competitive advantage, systems planning may to some extent govern business plans and certainly influence them.

33.   It should explicitly amplify policies which have been agreed as part of the business plan.

34.   To raise the cash they need, managers give their bankers a three-year business plan.

35.   During the boom period almost any management team with a half-decent business plan and a succession of rising profit forecasts was guaranteed financial backing.

36.   After the seventh defendant had resigned from the plaintiffs the three refined the business plan and set up the fourth defendant and the fifth defendant companies.

37.   Now the Trust refuse to publish their business plans.

38.   A sensible business plan, according to one motor industry expert.

39.   Teesside TEC chief executive John Howell said the new centre aims to give help on three fronts business plans, marketing and technology.

40.   For the competition she had to produce a business plan and attend an interview with a panel of judges.