Introduction to Firm of the Future

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This session will be dedicated to the possibility that a professional organization can be run more effectively when it becomes a knowledge firm rather than a service firm. Creating such an organization is hard work and not for everyone. It requires us to think differently than we have in the past about what it is that we do. You are hereby invited to open a dialogue on a different model for creating and capturing value in a professional firm. We will explore two business models: the firm of the past and the firm of the future. We will also begin a conversation about the four transformations that need to occur in order for firm to make the transition successfully. This session will be led by Ed Kless, Sage senior director of partner development and strategy, who will facilitate this session.

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P-95 Introduction to Firm of the Future

Ed Kless

@edkless

CPE Credit

• In order to receive CPE credit for this session, you must be present for the entire session. – Session Code: P-95– Recommended CPE Credit = 1.5– Delivery Method = Group Live– Field of Study = Specialized Knowledge and Applications

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Firm of the Future SymposiumAugust 20-21 in Irvine, CA

What is a Business Model?

How your firm creates value for and captures value from customers.

“Disruptive threats come inherently

not from new technology but

from new business models.”

Andy Grove, Founder, Intel

PSF

Four Assertions

1) Growth without profit is perilous

2) Nonrival assets = more leverage than rival assets

3) Effectiveness is always and everywhere more important than efficiency

4) Value-led pricing is superior to cost-plus pricing for capturing value created by PKFs

Four Defenses of Timesheets

1) Pricing

2) Productivity

3) Cost accounting

4) Project management

Professional Knowledge Firm

Profit =Capital

management X Effectiveness XPricing on Purpose

Professional Knowledge Firm

Profit = Capital management

X Effectiveness X Pricing on Purpose

↑ ↑ ↑ ↑

Two Business Models

From Revenue to Profit

Cost

Price

Value

$0

$5,000

$10,000

$15,000

$20,000

$25,000

$30,000

$35,000

$40,000

From Capacityto Capital

Four Forms of Capital

• Financial

• Intellectual

• Structural

• Social

Rival Asset

Non-Rival Asset

How Knowledge Workers are Unique

• They own the means of production

• Firms need them more than they need firms—balance has shifted

• Office is their servant, not their master

• Effectiveness is far more important than efficiency

• Judgments are more important than measurements

• Ultimately, they are volunteers

From Efficiency to Effectiveness

The Antithesis of Efficiency

• Continuing education

• Knowledge management/CKO

• Total Quality Service (Ritz-Carlton)

• Mentoring and coaching

• Networking

• Business development

• Social media

• Pricing on Purpose

What you can measure you can

manage

––The McKinsey maxim

“The only way to look into the future is use theories since

conclusive data is only available about the past.”

–-Clayton Christensen, et. al. Seeing What’s Next

KPIs: The Big Three

• HSDs

• Turn around time

• Value Gap

From Cost-plusto Value-led

“The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power. If

you’ve got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor,

you’ve got a very good business. And if you have to have a prayer session before

raising the price by 10 percent, then you’ve got a terrible business.”

Warren Buffet

The 5 Cs of Value

Comprehend the key value drivers for customers

Create value for customers

Communicate the value that you create

Convince customers that they must pay for value

Capture value with effective price strategies

A 1% increase change in, yields

- Fixed Costs + Revenue - Variable costs

+ Price0.0%

2.0%

4.0%

6.0%

8.0%

10.0%

12.0%

2.7%3.7%

7.3%

11.0%

1.5%2.5%

4.6%

7.1%

McKinsey AT Kearny

The Smile Curve

Ed’s IT Smile Curve

A Tale of Two Theories

The Labor Theory of Value

The Subjective Theory of Value

COST-LED PRICING

PRICE-LED COSTING

Customer Value Price Cost Service

Service Cost Price Value Customer

Eight Steps to Pricing on Purpose

① Conversation with customer

② Pricing the customer, not the services

③ Developing and pricing options

④ Present options to customer

⑤ Option selected codified into an FPA

⑥ Proper project management

⑦ For scope creep, utilize Change Requests

⑧ Perform After Action Reviews (AAR)

Five Ts to Offering Options

1) Terms

2) Technology

3) Timing

4) Talent

5) Training

Behavioral Economics

Anchoring

Baron Joseph von Neinbach’s Model

WA HF PF

C

B

A

Develop Choices

E D SC •B+

•RQA

•B+•Convert…•Integrate…

•1 hour•4 SR

B•A+•BPR•SRC

•A +•Provide…•Develop…

•4 hour•2 SR

A•PC•NA•SoF

•Install…•Educate…

•8 hour•1 SR

“When it leaves the factory, it’s lipstick. But when it crosses the counter in the department store, it’s hope.”

Charles Revson Founder, Revlon

“The customer never buys a product. By definition the

customer buys the satisfaction of a want. He

buys value.”

Peter Drucker

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