Case Studies of VentureBean Consulting
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Business
- Lifestyle products enterprise with clients pan-India and all major hotels / resorts in SE Asia, Maldives, Mauritius – resulted in 3X revenue growth in 4 years
- - expansion in product portfolio, customer segments / value chains, geographies, review mechanisms, risk management
- IT firm with operations in USA , Australia - move from stagnant revenue over previous 4 years to over 30% increase in current financial - growth planning (portfolio, customers,, geographies, SBUs), business advisory, process improvement
- Eco-friendly furniture chain - business growth planning, advisory for scaling (business processes + governance)
- Medical devices firm in Mumbai - business growth planning, KPIs for all functions, process mapping, governance
- Breakfast / grocery items firm with operations in 3 cities - business process optimisation for growth

People
- Coaching for MD Designate for global role, nsored by European Principal, matrixed Billion $ global organisation, leader in segment
- Coaching COO + 6 functional leaders in IT global major for improving CSAT which was stagnant or declining over past years
- Coaching for MD + 33 business & functional leaders in India’s fastest growing digital agency - for managing change due to steep business growth, resulting in improvement in productivity, increased sales closures / revenue growth & client retention
- Coaching senior management for role transformations in IT / global financial services major (technical specialists for leadership roles that requires general management, high- potential key performers for next roles)
- Leadership development programs for global manufacturing major, global healthtech firm, infrastructure and mining majors
- Family Business: Leadership aligned to a common vision, goal + succession management

Capital
- Transactional Advisory (including Valuation, Due Diligence, Risk Management, Capital Structuring, Mergers and Acquisitions) for Indian design firm taking over a larger retail
- chain in Nordics, energy major, leading IT Services company (full cycle M&A program from target identification to closure of transaction and making strategic investments)
- CFO Services – for global furnishing player, commodities firm, healthcare etc
- Fund-Raising – Debt and Equity for multiple firms – early stage and SMBs – multiple sectors
- Start-up / Early Stage
E-Commerce - Start-up / Early Stage
Healthcare - Start-up / Early Stage
Technology–Product/Support - Start-up / Early Stage
Technology–EdTech - Small & Medium Business
Consumer - Small & Medium Business
Information Technology - Small & Medium Business
Healthcare - Small & Medium Business
Education - Small & Medium Business
Technology–Telematics - Small & Medium Business
Technology–Services - Large Corporates
People Programs
▪ Start-up firm wishing to be an E-commerce marketplace for Kitchenware.
Challenge
Business Plan / Structure, identifying key differentiators for sustenance / growth, leading to funding
Engagement & Results
Across 6 months of engagement, VentureBean helped to pivot the business, with multiple lines of business / value-verticals, with e-commerce just an enabler and instead of being a kitchenware marketplace, they are on their way to being a one-stop kitchen expert.
VentureBean value-add has been in the following areas :
Revenue growth : 25% month-on-month – currently @ 90,000 footfalls on website
Increased lines of revenue generation including
Wholesale – Targeting Small Retailers with purchasing power but no accessibility to procure specialty / imported products
Additional channels – Multi-level-marketing – women’s group as hyper-local sales force
Affiliates / collaborations – e.g.,
Happy Roar – Have tied up to serve up complete kitchen segment.
49to499 – Kitchen Segment fulfilled by ABC.com
MebelKart
Lines of Business (LOBs) increased to include appliances, services
Optimized cost of customer acquisition – Focused customer segmentation / targeting – based on analytics of profile / buying behavior – to optimize campaign management and phased Geographical expansion
- Branding including signing on chefs and other key influencers
Financial Management
- Focus on staying cash positive
- Inventory management process optimized to bring in improved turns @ lower cost; hub & spoke / direct delivery model preferred over stock & sell.
- Financial governance and capital structuring
▪ Start-up firm in range of affordable devices for specialized medical care; promoter team comprising a marketing events manager and 2 top doctors in speciality medicare
Scope
Business Plan / Structure, phasing including go-to-market leading to funding
Engagement & Results
VentureBean engaged extensively as below :
Part A : Structuring the Business + Building the Business Growth Plan
- Possible business verticals / LOBs (Lines of Business), based on market landscape / potential
- Business projections for 5 years
- Revenue Model – including Product & Service offerings, customer targeting & acquisition, roll out strategy and timeline for phasing / scale-up, creating USP / differentiators
- Cost structures (incl. Organisation Structure / Team required, Technology, Branding / Marketing – online and offline etc – for push & pull)
- Financial modelling – including P&L, BS, CF
- Risks identification, quantification and mitigation measuresTAM (total addressable market) / Competitive landscape
- Valuation, shareholding and dilution strategy
- Also included conservative and optimistic / aggressive scenarios based on
- Business phasing as above
- Own / external funding
Part B : Fund Raising (on best-efforts basis) : VentureBean worked on the Information Memorandum to facilitate syndication drive, and assisted with in raising Capital – pre-Series A thru :
- Support in identifying the right category of Investor and taking the proposal to them for raising capital
- Partner in discussions / meetings with interested investors and negotiations of the term sheet.
- Timing of the funds infusion, structuring and governance for utilisation
Firm has secured funding of $ 0.5 M which should see them scale comfortably for a period of 18 months.
▪ 1.5-Year old Company, with a Proactive IT Tech Support platform solution that helps Detect, Diagnose and Resolve issues across all device platforms to reduce expenses and improve customer satisfaction, and upsell / cross-sell opportunities. with 1 B2B client in Pilot stage
Scope / Requirement
- Business Plan / structuring for scale-up
- Management band-width support
- Fund raising
Engagement & Results
Over a period of 2 years, VentureBean added significant value resulting in :
- Business Planning
- Round 1 funding of $ 4M
- Team scale-up including technology, customer acquisition / business development, operations support
- Client-base now over 10 B2B clients (all global MNCs), with over 1 Million user-base
- Revenue crossed $ 8M; profitability over 40% Op Inc.
- Setting up US on-site location for global expansion
- Generating interest for Round 2 of $ 10M
▪ 1-Year Company, focused on reinventing learning through gamification of assessments for K-10, skill enhancement and global benchmarking.
Scope / Requirement
- Business Plan / structuring for scale-up
- Fund raising
Engagement & Results
- B2C focused customer plan re-cast with B2B, B2B2C focus, eliminating scale-up risks
- Positioning and Marketing model optimized to include scaleable, stickiness with the customer
- Strategy canvas project managed for better ROI
- Cash burn optimized to make the business cash positive in 15 months.
- Pre-Series funding of INR 2.5 crs lined up
▪ 30-year company Home and Office blinds and green–building, eco-friendly systems with global coverage, pan-India presence.
Challenge
▪ Facing profitable business growth issues, high competition and inconsistent supply chain and customer service isues
Engagement & Results
This firm approached VentureBean in Jan, 2015 for Business Advisory services to work on process improvement.
Over the last 1.8 years of engagement, improvements have been made in :
Organisation
▪ Structure firmed,
▪ Roles and responsibilities, KRAs & KPIs defined for all key management roles
▪ Performance management
▪ Coaching and mentoring for key management personnel
Sales & Marketing
▪ Geographies restructured for sales potential vs profitability and consistency of order, ease of service
▪ Process mapped end-to-end, gaps identified and fixed thru’ 6-sigma approach
▪ Online and offline presence / activities streamlined and optimized
▪ Incentive structures strengthened
Operations
▪ Customer Service – Issues identified thru’ Fish-Bone, Root-Cause Analysis
▪ Supply Chain – Norms firmed for inventory / stock-holding, vendor-on-boarding & rating parameters firmed, negotiation
▪ Manufacturing – Quality norms / checks upgraded, wastage and utilization factors optimized
Finance
▪ Cash flow and profitability analysis re-defined and governed
▪ Working capital norms tightened
The organization has shown 20% topline growth, in the previous fiscal, with improved profitability as compared to the previous year.
The current fiscal’s Plan is 50% higher than the previous one and in the 5 months to date, growth of 87% is shown vs previous year.
Happier customers with quicker turnaround from enquiry to order generation, service and collections. Engaged employees with greater teamwork.
▪ 13-year IT company into Software Application Development, Managed IT and Enterprise Solutions, Web Presence Solutions, having covered clients across multiple geographies.
Challenge
▪ Facing slow / stagnant growth, issues with
▪ people (attrition, accountability, performance management)
▪ process
Business Development – revenue generation, conversion, pre-sales
Operations – project management, estimation
Finance – cash flow and profitability management
Engagement & Results
This firm approached VentureBean in Dec., 2013 as a one-stop Business Solutions provider to address the challenges faced. The engagement model was customized as a monthly retainer with VentureBean as a Business Advisor. Scope was to include all the processes end-to-end and help in Business Planning / Scaling.
VentureBean Value Addition across 2.5 years of engagement
Strategy / Sales & Marketing
▪ Geography expansion
Key achievement – started Qatar office – cash positive in Year 1 and now contributing to 30% + of revenue
US on-site / in-country footprint launched
Collaborations / networks
▪ 20% improvement in revenue generation from traditional Lines of Business (LOBs) – improved closure rates & average order value (AOV) / larger ticket sizes, better positioning / key differentiators etc.
▪ Added additional LOBs on value-chain map – now 15% of revenue
HR
▪ Coaching & Mentoring – of CEO, COO, and their direct reports
▪ Hiring / onboarding key experienced professionals for US foray
▪ Performance management – retaining high performers, managing bottom quartile, etc.
Operations
▪ Improved estimate efficiency & effectiveness – to improve closure
▪ Tight project management – to avoid project scope & time creep
▪ Improved utilization & skilling scale-up to improve cost effectiveness
▪ Improved working of cross-functional teams
▪ Under 1 group umbrella with topline of over Rs. 130 crores, clutch of companies comprising life sciences, Radiant healthcare, OT Design / Project Management, OT Equipment, Surgical Disposables, CathLabs, pharmaceuticals distributorship, Hospital-based Pharmacies, Retail Pharmacies & Convenience Stores.
Scope
▪ Define the organization structure
▪ Define Roles & Responsibilities for the key management roles and functional verticals
▪ Define the business processes across the entity to cover processes of all departments, inter-departmental connects and inter-company process/governance linkages
▪ The defined business processes must serve as blueprint inputs to the IT team for subsequent ERP implementation
▪ Documentation to cover the organisation structure, roles & responsibilities matrix and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
Engagement & Results
VentureBean Approach and coverage as follows :
- Baselined existing structures and processes with detailed process maps. Mapped desired state end-to-end business processes & identified gaps
- Defined improvements in structures and processes – for improved efficiency / effectiveness + possible decentralisation / empowerment
- Organization and role definition, pan organization – KPIs / KRA identified, defined, linked with performance management system
- Blueprint and SOP Documentation all departmental processes including inter-department dependencies
- Defined governance and reporting mechanisms at organization and shared services levels
- Matrix structure
This has further resulted in next steps of
- Hiring
- Screen for key positions
- On-boarding / Induction
- Implementation
- Establish role clarity / Cascade KRA / JDs
- Change Management and Training
- Coaching & Mentoring key personnel
- Assessment of key personnel
- Governance
- Set up weekly structure (Incl. Reports, Metrics, etc)
- Review H1 performance
- Revised outlook for H2
- Ensure sustenance of review meetings / improvement
- Facilitate inter-dept structured functioning
- Business Plan 5 Years (FY 17-18 onwards) incl :
- Product & Service offerings / portfolio and roadmap for scale-up – value-added services – business phasing
- Revenue Plan – broken down by Product Lines / Verticals, Services, Geographies, Customers / Key Accounts,
- Cost structures – (incl. Resource build-up, Technology, Branding / Marketing – online and offline, other OH)
- Financials : P&L, BS, CF / Funding required
- Assist in set-up of inter-dept. Budgeting / Planning
- Annual Plan Meet / Target setting for next year
▪Large multi-enterprise group, with over 100 institutions across multiple states.
Scope / Requirement
- Immediate concerns around student:teacher ratios, salary:role inconsistencies,
- Inconsistent and non-standard processes, need for consistent metrics and measures etc;
- Design and deploy a market research and/or survey for comparable benchmarking on multiple factors like:
- Current demand and supply in the current geographies
- Fees affordability
- Income profiles / Compensation benchmarks
- Competition mapping – what facilities / extras offered etc
- HR review and optimization covering:
- Recruitment / On-boarding
- Compensation & Benefits
- Roles & responsibilities
- Performance Management
- Retention
Objective: Standardising with best practices that result in measurable indicators for management on-the-spot decision making & enhancements operationalised. Coverage areas :
- Identifying gaps with respect to overall schools administration + helping with process improvement in
- Operations
- Branding / Marketing / Leads Generation / Business Development – for admissions – both online and offline
- Infrastructure
- Statutory
- Recruitment
- Admissions
- Administration (detailed below)
- Vendor Management
- Academics / Skill Enhancement
- Content
- Assessment
- Training
- Value-Added Services
- Sustenance / Growth
- Governance – weekly dashboards / metrics and performance reviews across metrics, functions
- Business Planning for growth – covering all the above
- Operations
Approach followed Six-Sigma DMAICR – Process Diagnostics, Improvement, Certification (as may be required) and Sustenance
Engagement & Results
Ongoing
- Process driven, System controlled practices, NOT people or person-dependent. Moving from people-driven to process-driven
- Managing by exceptions – at teacher & admin / principal levels
- Transparency
- For Teachers
- Teacher-wise performance appraisal linked to goal setting
- Teacher attendance
- Curriculum progress management
- For Students
- Student-wise performance ratios
- Student-wise attendance / drop-out ratios / exit – linked to reasons – pareto analysis
- Remedial assessment for poor performers
- Parent / Student profiling – background / income / location / profession
- Financials : Costs & ROI analysis
- For Teachers
▪ 3-Year old Company, with initial seed money put in promoters, Telematics product showing good traction, with client sign-ups and 1 vertical / line of business.
Scope / Requirement
- Business Plan / structuring for scale-up
- Fund raising
Engagement & Results
VentureBean engaged to value-add as under :
- Identified and firmed up value–chain, geographical expansion with multiple verticals and value-added services, with one-time / recurring revenues across multiple streams, resulting in broader portfolio of services and products, and improved profitability
- Technology / security assessment and infra requirements optimized
- Firm raised Pre-Series A round successfully $1 M
- Revenues scale-up by 30%
▪ 4-Year Company, Over 32M revenue, and 3000+ employees, Resource outsourcing, mobility and cloud services, Business Intelligence, Analytics and Knowledge Management
Scope / Requirement
Review and strengthen end-to-end following processes :
- Sales / GTM / Customer Acquisition
- Branding / Marketing
- Operations
- Support – incl. HR, Finance, Technology
Also, firm the strategy for geography expansion into US, products and collaborations.
Objectives :
- Improvement in efficiency / effectiveness + possible decentralisation / empowerment
- Implement sustainable change, as required
- Building blocks for sustainable, profitable business growth
Engagement & Results
The VentureBean Approach followed broadly:
- Review of past data / MIS / information
- Review of existing processes
- Discussions with leaders, key members, teams to get their perspective on what is working and what is not.
- Participation in business meetings to check governance process
- Gap Analysis / Identification of Improvement areas – including documentation, systems and training requirements
- Course corrections / interventions required across process interlinkages / dependencies, organisation / roles and responsibilities were designed
- Governance mechanisms – to check for adherence / lapses, if any
- Course correction to ensure sustainability
- Coaching / mentoring – for top management + direct reports
- Training – technical / leadership development – for top management + direct reports
- Business research – Secondary – for identification of opportunity / landscape for growth. Execution of the research will be through VentureBean partners (at actuals)
- Business Planning – incl. value chain movement / mapping new lines of business – services or products
- Risk identification & management – Review / strengthen the business, financial governance process, technology risk etc
- Team building and management – profiling and screening for final rounds. Executive search will be through VentureBean partners (at actuals)
- Business Advisory : Operations Excellence & KPI Monitoring – weekly & monthly reviews
Results :
- Role clarity for top and senior management
- Attrition managed to single digits
- Newer and profitable service lines opened up
- Value-addition to existing customer base, improving revenue generation and profitability
- Actual performance @ 120% of targets
- US operations scaled
▪ Infrastructure group into Airports, Roads, Energy, Water etc
▪ Tier 1 Steel Manufacturer
▪ Top 10 Mining company
▪ Global provider of banking, mortgage, investing, credit card, insurance, and consumer and commercial financial services
▪ Indian company which manufactures retail products such as watches, jewellery, fragrances and eyewear
Scope / Requirement & Engagement
VentureBean delivered the following :
▪ Leadership program across pan-India locations, across verticals for the senior management team across focus competencies
▪ Year-long succession planning exercise for top management including competency mapping, behavioural styles and performance-linked competency development
▪ 18-month key talent skill enhancement program
▪ Coaching / mentoring and customised workshops for key talent