Non-Executive Board Services

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As a Non-Executive Director, I can actively participate in the board's role of guiding the business and ensuring its success via:

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GOVERNANCE

• Ensuring policies and processes in place to ensure the regulatory and legal compliance of the business

• Ensuring there is a robust decision making process and clear accountabilities

• Ensuring business performance and risks are monitored

• Making sure board information is evidence based, not based on trust – to be assured that the business is in good shape

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STRATEGY

• Ensuring business has a robust and clear strategy

• Checking everyone is aligned behind the strategy

• Ensuring strategy will deliver a clear vision (e.g. profit, growth, exit)

• Checking if the business has the resources needed to execute the strategy

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LEADERSHIP

• Helping set the tone, culture and values of the business

• Making sure the organisation is living the values

• Holding executives to account – does their behaviour demonstrate the values

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FINANCE

• Sharing responsibility for the financial well-being of the business

• Ensuring the business is properly resourced (to operate, to pay its bills, to execute its strategy)

• Ensuring the business is compliant with financial regulations

• Ensuring the business has processes in place to track and manage income and expenditure

• Ensuring appropriate approval authorities are in place

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Technology Company Due Diligence

 

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I can assist potential investors or acquirers of a high-tech Company, with due diligence on:

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• the competitive landscape around the Company's products and services

• the intellectual property landscape around the Company's technology

• the technological readiness level of the Company's products

• the market opportunity for the Company's products and services

Business Strategy Consultancy

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As a Business Strategy Consultant, I can help set the Company onto a path where there is a clear strategy that everyone in the Company is aware of and bought in to, with a specific, goal-oriented process to ensure execution success. To do this, I can replicate the methodology and toolset that I used to set my own business on a path that eventually led to a high value trade sale. This methodology and toolset breaks down into 6 clear segments:

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VISION

• Create a clear, concise vision that the whole organisation is able to see and get behind

PEOPLE

• Make sure the right people are in the right seats

• Use a clear, documented process to establish accountability for the various parts of the business, and a way to measure how those accountable are delivering

DATA

• Establish data to track company and people performance

• Create a set of key performance indicators that measure the health of the business and give early warning of problems, and assign accountability to each KPI

ISSUES

• Implement a very effective process for identifying issues early and dealing with them befre they become harmful

PROCESS

• Provide clarity about how the business processes should be run, removing ambiguity and engendering ownership of responsibilities

TRACTION

• Set, and execute a clear path to executing the vision, broken down into specific, measurable quarterly goals with clear accountability

• Avoid the urgent being the enemy of the important

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As an interim Business Strategy Consultant, I can implement such a methodology, tailored to get your business moving in the right direction. When the process is running smoothly, I can hand the reins over and step away. 

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