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Your world in 2016

Published on Feb 08, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Your world in 2016

Key business issues & how to tackle them

Who am I ?

  • Experienced as Executive & Consultant
  • Worked in scaleups (Odoo), startups, consulting firms (McKinsey), & big companies
  • Now enabling executives to boost companies through single focus on key issues

Why did I do this survey?

Because it...

  • Forces you to eliminate what's not so important
  • Forces me to see where I can help most
  • Forces everyone to step back some time and to...

FOCUS

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Results in brief

  • 40 respondants
  • Most managers & above
  • Nice mix of businesses

Types of business

Types of roles

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Most common issues

  • Growth / Biz Dev / Sales
  • Profitability
  • People
  • Product/Services packaging
  • Innovation
  • Other: ROI, Funding,...

ONE QUESTION

Are you allocating time based on your key issue ?

5 secrets

To manage growth
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1. A business is a workflow

  • There is only one bottleneck...preventing it to grow
  • It may not be where you think it is

2. You need the right KPIs

  • Key Performance Indicators can tell you something is wrong before the sh*t hits the fan

3. It's not about the product

  • It's the pain point addressed
  • It's the solution
  • It's the marketing & sales process

4. Your most scarce resources

  • Your time
  • Your time
  • Your time
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5. But everything is contingent

  • Context is king
  • A recipe from the past may no longer work
  • Adapting to context & constantly sensing is critical (agility)

So - how do you do it?

  • Free up time to focus on this one issue (and make sure it's the bottleneck)
  • Measure the KPIs around it
  • Review the current/past recipe of success & sense if still valid in the market
  • Design a new approach & test it first

There are only 5 types of actions

  • Eliminate (a lot)
  • Reduce
  • Scale
  • Pivot
  • Re-invent
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Example

  • Odoo (business apps) built an integrated marketing AND sales approach
  • Results: quadrupled recurring revenues in 18 months
  • Now replicating to another company selling software

And your issue ?

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Let's get going

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