View the slides from The Challenge of Change, held at Media City UK on 31st Oct.
Presentations from:
Sir Andrew Stunell MP
Dr John Ashcroft, pro.manchester
Darren Westlake, Crowdcube
Rob Turner, Growth Observatory
Steve Black, International Rugby Coach
2. Today‟s programme
09.00
Welcome from your host Michael Taylor
09.05
Opening Remarks, Rt Hon Vince Cable MP
09.10
The Challenges of Change, Sir Andrew Stunell MP
09.30
The Changing NW Economy, John Ashcroft
09.50
Insights on Growth, Rob Turner
10.05
Taking up the Challenge – A SME story, Darren Westlake
10.30
Coffee break
11.00
Workshops
12.00
Building and Maintaining Momentum, Steve Black
12.30
Panel Discussion Audience/Panel Q&A
13.00
Lunch & Lunch and networking
31. Agenda
• Introduction to the Growth Observatory
• A growing evidence base
• Insights on growth
– What does a growth SME look like?
– What opportunities are growth SMEs exploiting?
– What barriers are growth SMEs facing?
• Questions
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Challenge of
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32. Introduction to the Growth Observatory
Support the
identification of high
growth SMEs
Data analysis
Support enterprise
growth
Horizon scanning
Add value to
evidence base
Content generation
Support the
growth
'community'
Applied
insight
Monitor effectiveness
Sector insight
Understand impact
Local insight
Analyse &
understand what
works & why
Policy
SME relevant content
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Benchmarking
Utilise insight of
others
33. A growing evidence base
Financial & key business data for c9,500 SMEs
In-depth conversations around barriers & opportunities
Business diagnostics & assessments
Surveys with clients, investors & stakeholders
Insights of 100+ Growth Managers & 1,000+ Coaches
Indexed to wider secondary data sources
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35. What does a growth SME look like?
Age
7%
8%
Less than 1 year
29%
17%
32%
19%
1 to 2 years
3 to 4 years
15%
Over 10 years
31%
North West
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13%
5 to 10 years
29%
England
36. What does a growth SME look like?
Size
4%
13%
5%
Start-up (less than 12 months)
Micro < 5 headcount and ≤ £2
million Turnover or ≤ £2 million
balance sheet
37%
46%
11%
36%
Small < 49 headcount and ≤ £10
million Turnover or ≤ £10 million
balance sheet
48%
Medium < 250 headcount and ≤
£50 million Turnover or ≤ £43
million balance sheet
North West
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England
37. What does a growth SME look like?
North West
Manufacturing
10%
Business services
10%
10%
Manufacturing
9%
7%
IT
6%
Retail
4%
Construction
4%
Engineering
4%
Engineering
4%
Food and drink
4%
Food and drink
4%
Construction
3%
Retail
3%
Consulting
3%
Software
3%
Recruitment
3%
Healthcare
3%
Software
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%
IT
37
England
Business services
Sector
%
3%
Recruitment
3%
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38. What does a growth SME look like?
Geography
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39. What opportunities are growth SMEs exploiting?
35%
31%
30%
North West
27%
26%
25%
England
25%
24%
20%
20%
18%
14%
15%
13%
15%
14%
12%
10%
10%
10%
4%
5%
5%
0%
Expansion
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Diversification
Service
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Sales &
Marketing
Strategy
Innovation
Renew &
Sustain-ability
Skills & People
40. What barriers are growth SMEs facing?
60%
50% 49%
50%
North West
England
43%
40%
30%
39%
37%
28%
27%
23%
20%
10%
7%
9%
10%
9%
3%
3%
1%
2%
4%
4%
0%
Skills & Staff
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Finance
Sales &
Marketing
Strategy &
Management
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Innovation
Competition &
Premises &
External
Infrastructure
Constraints
Salaries
Retention
43. Taking up the Challenge A SME Story
Darren Westlake, Crowdcube
44.
45. My challenges
Raising finance
Timing - pioneer
Raising finance
Spiritec
Crowdcube
2000
1990
Discovered
Internet
2010
ID Telecoms
Raising finance
Pivoting
46. The problem
“Q1 2013 showed the lowest ever level of use of
external finance by SME‟s” – SME Finance Monitor, Aug „13
“Access to finance is a “major barrier” to growth for
more than one in five small companies” – FT, Mar ‟12
“Less than one in five SME‟s have attempted to
raise finance in the last year – with 40 per cent of
applications rejected” – RealBusiness, Sept „13
47. The solution
What is Crowdcube?
Crowdcube is the world‟s first and leading equity crowdfunding platform giving
entrepreneurs a new way to raise investment; and..
…enabling everyday people to invest in exciting start-up and high-growth
businesses in exchange for equity
Fully authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority
49. Success so far
£14.5 million
Stage of Growth
funded so far…
>49,000
members
£2,800
By Category
£180,000
average investment
average deal
£1.9 million
biggest deal
£250,000
largest single investment
Successfully
funded deals
70+
51. What are the benefits?
New way to raise finance
Financial return
UK wide investor reach
„Armchair Dragon‟
Easier to promote
Support friends and family
Cost effective
Participation
Marketing effect
Lower/spread risk
Crowd feedback
Simple to invest
57. Teams…
British Lions
Welsh National RFU
Newcastle Falcons RFC
Newcastle United FC
Sunderland AFC
Fulham FC
Welsh National Netball Team
Consultancies…
Chicago Bulls
New York Jets
Australian National RFU
New Zealand All Blacks
The Black Bull
65. Try to align yourself
with a group of
people who are
positive, ambitious
and not only
want to succeed
themselves but are
genuinely happy for you
to succeed
68. Consider everything
on its merits
Attach little weight to
reputations or past-actions
“Experience is only useful so
much as the past is like the
future!”
Gary Hamel
75. Remember,
The price of failure
is nearly always more
than the price of success
“If it‟s to be it‟s up to me”
Lou Getz
76. If you think its
impossible, it isn‟t.
If you think you
know everything,
you don‟t.
If you think you‟re alone,
you‟re not.
Jim Rohn
77. “Producing the
wrong thing to
a high quality is
pointless.
Do things right and
do the right things”
Peter Drucker
There are numerous paths to success but there is no right way to do the wrong thing
78. “Its not like we
make fundamental
changes to the way
we do things all the
time, but we do make
tweaks”
Allan Lyall, Amazon
79. “Determination is
only the first step.
It must be followed
by hard work, a regime
of mental exercise, and
whatever it takes to bring
out peak performance”
Napolean Hill „Think and Grow Rich‟
80. “You can‟t have
worthwhile work
unless everyone is
working toward a well
understood and shared
goal. But that‟s not enough.
It matters how you reach the
goal. You must be guided by
values. You have to be proud of
both the goal and how you get
there” Ken Blanchard & Sheldon Bowles “Gung-Ho!”
81. “The main
thing is to
keep the main
thing the
main thing!”
Stephen Covey – “First Things First”
85. Succinctly,
“Everyone wants
to go to heaven,
but nobody wants
to die” Joe Louis
Remember, To accomplish anything worthwhile, you must pay the price