Planning is necessary because we are making the connections between knowing what the opportunity is, having defined, explored and evaluated it through the activities in Chapters 4-5, and how to realise it. Opportunity planning is future-oriented thinking and acting. This chapter introduces a simple but effective approach to opportunity and new venture planning in three stages. The first involves creating the story of how the opportunity will be realised. The second is to create a plan for the opportunity. The third is to develop a business model and then the full venture plan, using much of the work developed through the activities in previous chapters. To do this, we have to learn how to think in the future. This builds on the work in Chapter 4 on creativity and opportunity mapping.