I am truly excited to be back with IBGR for Season 5. During the season. I will be discussing what you need to know if you are considering expanding overseas. Reflecting my Asia base I will be producing a weekly new letter with articles from mainly ASEAN countries that have caught my eye during the previous week.

The first issue is attached.

Please join me every Monday at Noon Singapore time. 2:00 PM Sydney 9:30 AM Mumbai.

Stream Lined Strategic Planning.

A lot of companies are struggling with their strategic planning given the uncertainty about the future. Some of my thoughts and those from Gartner are included in the attached PDF.

The article also contains a further link to a guide to strategic planning by function which is well worth your time to read.

Happy Planning!

How can I help you?

My show and my business tagline is Practical Solutions to Difficult Problems. What enables me to make such a claim?

Over thirty years experience in a wide variety of roles at American MNC has given me a broad base of business experiences. Although I mainly worked as a CFO, COO or General Manager I have also worked at senior levels in procurement, operations and sales.

During my career I have turn around poor performing businesses including a mining operation in South Carolina, chemical manufacturers in Korea and Japan and a waterproofing business in Australia.

I have been fortunate to be involved in M&A, both on the buy side and the sell side, on four continents including a pioneering acquisition in China.

Geographically I have lived and worked in Europe (20 years), North America (13 years) and most recently Asia (14 years) which has exposed me to many different cultures.

For the last six years I have run my own company and worked with the CFO Centre helping SMEs and Entrepreneurs grow. I know how to work with limited resources to provide cost effective solutions.

On the fun side I am a FAA licensed pilot - Single Engine Land and Sea with an instrument rating. When I lived in the US I flew aerobatics at the Sportsman level at IAC sanctioned aerobatic competition.

My areas of expertise include:

Mergers and Acquisitions
Business turnarounds
Business planning and FP&A
Strategic Planning
Financial Staff Development
Understanding how MNCs think

Change Management Part 3.

Today's post talks about the importance of management walking the talk when managing change. Bain & Company found that 88% of change initiatives fail. That attached article identifies some ways you can improve your chances of success.

This concludes my series on Change Management. If there any topics you are interested in learning more about, just post a reply.

What goes unmeasured goes unchanged.

The second in a series of three articles about managing change. This article discusses how you may be able to measure your organization's ability to handle change.

Growing a business requires change and managing change is a skill which is often not well executed. To help business owners achieve success when implementing their change initiatives Over the next three days I post some of my thoughts on how to manage change. Each post also links to an article from a leading consulting group for further reading.

Thanks to Donna, I can now upload the spreadsheet so members can download it directly without the need to contact me, The spreadsheet should be easy to use, but if you have questions or would like to chat about cash flow issues facing your company please do not hesitate to get in touch.

jeremy@business-in-asia.org

Hi Community Members

On Russell Colbourne's show today he talked about the importance of cash flow. I have an excel based cash flow planning tool that I would be glad to send to you.

It is designed for companies in the prestart up stage but can be used by more mature companies. It will need to be customized for your own company but it is a great starting point. I used it in connection with an acquisition I did for a client.

I cannot attach the excel based version but a PDF version is here for you to take a look.

Wishing every Entrepreneur every success

Hi Community Members;

On Russell Colbourne's show today he talked about the importance of cash flow management. That reminded me that I had an excel based cash flow I could share with my membership. It is designed for pre-start up businesses but could be used by operating businesses as well.
You will need to customize it to suit your business but it is a great starting point. I used in connection with an acquisition for a client.

Thanks Donna Hopefully this has fixed the problem.