Podcast with Ted Leverette of PartnerOnCall
I did a podcast with Ted Leverette which he published directly and via LinkedIn. We talked about the differences between deal-making in the US and Australia, particularly now, in the …
We’ve founded, grown, managed, bought, and sold literally hundreds of businesses
– and we can bring that experience to you. We can help you
build the value you want – organically or faster – and realise real wealth.
There’s nothing more gratifying than helping others achieve the results they’ve always hoped for. We’ve spent years building our own experience and now it’s time to give some back. So we’re opening our schedule up to select entrepreneurs, managers, team members and project specialists who can benefit from some expert input.
If you’re hoping to build a business with serious value for investors, industry or trade buyers, or the broader market, you need to understand what really affects that value in their eyes. We’ve been buying and selling technology-driven business for years as well as helping others to grow. We can help you discover the real drivers that are going to make your business stand out for buyers. Beginning with a frank assessment of where you are and how realistic your growth plans are, we’ll work with you to bring your dreams to practical reality.
You’ve got a job to do and need to bring together the right people around the right approach at the right time – and you need to know how to make that team work as well as understanding the steps and stages to achieve your goals. At the same time, you need to manage your own position in the organisation and relationships with the rest of the management team and others. We can help bring you the perspective to make all of this work – for you, and for the organisation.
Where teams may need a bit of help to gel properly and bring a creative focus to their assigned tasks, we can help the leader and each member to see the context, roadmap and how their contribution will be critical to achieving everyone’s goal. Though individual and group work we can ensure that teams with high-value or high-risk missions achieve the outcome that the company needs within the time and budget allowed. Along the way, every member will become and even more highly-skilled member of the firm.
Experience is the key to making changes effective, and putting you on the path to success
ICT Strategic Consulting is me, and others I work with. We help technology-driven business owners/operators to build the value of their businesses, and ultimately realise that value through an exit. We can help you avoid the traps and reap the rewards of success.
I’ve built a huge formal and informal network across the technology industries, so when you need a partner, a buyer, target or resource, we can find them quickly.
M&A experience has shown that unexpected buyers or sellers often have the strongest motivations – and that will be reflected in the deal outcome for you and your stakeholders. So we talk to all the potential counterparties; not just ‘the usual suspects.’
Preparing for transactions, however, should start years before you’re ready to make your move. Agreeing a concrete business strategy and plan provides the platform for growth and ensures all stakeholders are preparing for the same outcomes and share the same expectations.
Troubled company’s problems are different, but effective operations are surprisingly similar (to paraphrase Tolstoy). We’ve developed a deep understanding of what works and what doesn’t, and a ‘kit bag’ of solutions to common problems. Innovation is a precious commodity and repeating the mistakes of others doesn’t qualify – but applying existing solutions to new problems certainly does.
Get in touch today to talk about how we might be able to help you. If we’re not the right people to help, we can probably find someone who is.
We work with clients to solve real problems, so no two projects are the same – but our results always involve building a larger, stronger organisation.
Entering a new market, designing a new product, restructuring operations or streamlining for growth, we bring the voice of experience to make your changes effective.
We’ve done 50+ deals across an unmatched connection base in ICT. We can discretely extract attractive offers and find targets within your cash/equity price range.
Having built outsourced digital & traditional marketing services and can get your selling engine up-and-running without a huge up-front investment.
(Keeping in mind that a lot of what we do is confidential – and will always stay that way!)
I did a podcast with Ted Leverette which he published directly and via LinkedIn. We talked about the differences between deal-making in the US and Australia, particularly now, in the …
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This article covers the process we use to put together M&A transactions for SMEs in the ICT industry in Australia. It’s primarily focused on vendors, who comprise the majority of …
I recorded a PODcast with David Smit at ResultsPoint back in January about how to prepare a company for M&A. It’s titled “Building your IT Company So You Are Ready …
M&A requires specialist skills and knowledge, and usually outside assistance – ICTSC would like to help you when working in this area. Here is some of the knowledge that will …
Great marketing & sales are critical for the organic growth of any business – the bread-and-butter of building your future. ‘Inorganic growth’ is the 2nd half of the growth equation …
Here’s a basic introduction to the basics of how M&A transactions can be relevant to each of the 4 key stages of growth for our tech SME partners. It’s based …
This is a great post/article in Forbes contributed by Ryan Hauber and the original is available here, and I’ve added my own [comments] in the text… Selling a company is …
Excellent article at Harvard Business Review (not Cornell, but good anyway): https://hbr.org/…/6-digital-strategies-and-why-some-work-be… Defines the 6 key strategies for digital (and % of surveyed companies trying them) – first 3 considered …
Many tech companies think they’re too small for ‘Mergers & Acquisitions’ (‘M&A’). They ‘put it in the too-hard basket,’ ignore it, or just wait for the proverbial ‘knock on the …
Here is a great list of thinking tools – 113 mental models and methods that underlie so much of the reasoning we need to do every day. It’s worthwhile to …
When selling your company, some surprises are good! SME owners often think they know the likely buyers for their business, but many are surprised when they actually go to market. …
We’re keen to talk – drop us a message and we’ll get back to you in person straight away.
We’re keen to talk about how we can help, and how we can structure a project to fit your timeline and budget.
You might be surprised by how much you can accomplish with even a small start – as long as you make that start today!
Call Dr Paul D Hauck on +61(0)414 35 35 03
or email Paul.Hauck@ICTStrategicConsulting.com
Our office address is:
131/25 Market Street
Sydney NSW
2000 Australia
We have dozens of ICT M&A projects on at the moment, with literally hundreds of firms across Australia. If buying, merging, exiting or becoming a part of something larger might make sense for you – let us know, so we can let you know when relevant opportunities arise.