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Purpose of today

Strategic plan •  Strategic options •  Plan of action •  Allocation of resources •  Organisation

Change management

Leadership

Strategic vision

Strategic scenarios

Current situation

Step 1: understand the current reality (our

starting point) Purpose of this

document

Step 2: Board discussion to formulate desired future state 4 years from now (our

“north star”)

Step 3: CEO and management develops strategic scenarios for discussion with Board

Step 4: CEO and management develops

strategic plan to achieve the strategic vision for approval by

Board

Companies don’t get sold.

They get bought.

- ‘Postmortem of a Venture-backed Startup’ by Brett Martin, founder of @Sonar

https://medium.com/p/72c6f8bec7df

Lessons

1.  Passion trumps experience 2.  Ask for help 3.  Be a learner 4.  Work hard 5.  It’s really hard to do services AND

products 6.  It takes years and lots of money to build a

successful SaaS tool 7.  You don’t have to take external funding

Leaders have a disproportionately large effect on the culture - Maher, Plsek, Price, Mugglestone

THE #1 LESSON LEARNT

He Tangata, He Tangata, He Tangata.

It is people, it is people, it is people.

Thanks

@trentmankelow   @Op/malExp