Raising Capital to Fund Growth
- March 14th, 2014
- Jeremy de Constantin
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How you can turn the tables on the investors Banking colleagues and investor friends of mine often despair at how poorly businesses present when seeking capital – debt or equity. Sometimes the business fails on the very basics such as a projected cash-flow. Back-of-the-envelope presentations no longer attract capital via investors or banks. A new & measured approach is now required. If you present a half-baked case you will struggle to raise capital. There is a better way. A client of mine recently presented to their bank a very clear and concise strategy. Integral to the strategy were metrics (KPIs). Each…
Looks like a balanced scorecard – but is it?
- July 16th, 2013
- Kevin
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A management team that believes it has a balanced scorecard because it dutifully reports on its KPIs every month may likely be kidding itself. And such a mindset could be doing the organisation a disservice, as they say ‘having the ladder against the wrong wall’. Whereas most KPIs frameworks have grown ‘topsy’ over time, the balanced scorecard is a carefully thought through and agreed set of performance indicators providing early indicators of successful or unsuccessful business strategies – including more immediate problems on the horizon. Something your financials alone fail to provide. The scorecard is also aimed at getting people…
