{"id":632,"date":"2012-07-19T15:57:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T14:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.icebreakerexecutive.com\/?p=613"},"modified":"2012-07-19T15:57:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T14:57:24","slug":"the-turnaround-market-a-challenge-to-fix-these-issues-are-the-reasons-why-icebreaker-do-what-we-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/?p=632","title":{"rendered":"Why is there no visible market for turnaround? some the reasons why icebreaker do what we do&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why is there no visible market for turnaround? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230; there are 2 sides of the coin limiting the market, the effectiveness of the solution (on the supply side) and the multitude of factors that blur the demand to explain..<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Who would admit to one?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There are never any accurate financials without some initial work, so the start is subjective view; a lack of confidence or late delivery of numbers or inability to do what they say on time etc<\/p>\n<p>Visibility, cash does not lie but only a factoring company with a view of the current account and debtors \/ cash called down gets a full view of the debtor cash but liabilities and creditors are often more difficult to establish<\/p>\n<p>Who knows what one is? What is the definition of insolvency; -ve balance sheet, inability to meet creditors payments on time within a reasonable window<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Who is in control?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Banks are in control but don\u2019t have a solution to the scale of the issue, and front line staff often don\u2019t have the decision making to sign off funding fast enough to suit the business as there are no useful up to date financials &#8211; this is circular<\/p>\n<p>A turnaround requires all stakeholders to stick together through the process, and an honest Indian to oversee and challenge the decisions. If a bank can see a quick exit that often is not good news for the business<\/p>\n<p>Banks have a very limited responsibility in the process; they lend money to people that don\u2019t need it and when things get tough they want it back<\/p>\n<p>Extend and pretend in the 90s was a sound strategy but in 2012 there are more fundamental challenges that will not rebound naturally<\/p>\n<p>There is NO macroeconomic view of where cash will migrate to in the globe, and which countries are possibly in permanent decline therefore which should prepare for it<\/p>\n<p>Banks have limited ability to pull together even their own services from their in house peers, for example credit card services, overdraft, pensions, mortgages etc, which can create unsustainable delays<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Conflicted Professional bodies<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The IFT are focused at larger organisations and have stitched up the market playing to the deep seated BUT well founded worries of the banks. E.g. Lloyds only use IFT members yet the IFT accredited individual does not provide a robust solution!<\/p>\n<p>There is no QA of working turnaround professionals on assignment, you need a working peer reviewed structure for that<\/p>\n<p>The budgetary resources to catch unlawful directors is insufficient to police the process<\/p>\n<p>IPs are becoming accredited turnaround professionals by the IFT. IPs are part of a solution but what is required is a dispassionate and effective broader external team and framework<\/p>\n<p>The TMA are a well rounded body but don\u2019t have any delivery function or accreditation<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Why are there 2 professional bodies?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Turnaround Service providers<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Scarcity drives hoarding or work within professional service firms, doing what is right for businesses requires an abundance<\/p>\n<p>Some teams are made up of insolvency practitioners with limited view of management and operations excellence \u2013 core to a successful turnaround<\/p>\n<p>The scale of the issue; there are 250,000 SMEs in the UK and a handful of corporate, yet the market to supply it is geared towards larger corporates leaving the vast majority of SMEs without support<\/p>\n<p>the banks typically don&#8217;t have the resources to supervise schemes to lend to businesses through small loans guarantee schemes etc<\/p>\n<p>Banks portfolio managers don\u2019t have the business skills or reliable supporting solution to address the problem, so don\u2019t deal with businesses much less than a certain size<\/p>\n<p>Most solutions are not resourceful enough to engage with SMES to generate \u201ccash and stem the blood loss\u201d to fund the fees<\/p>\n<p>The big 4 dominate through the each of their audit practices the \u00a350m+ market<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Coping with the challenge on assignment<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The team has to be \u201coven ready\u201d with a framework of rules of engagement to be able to accommodate changes as the scenario unfolds to suit the business not themselves<\/p>\n<p>The turnaround team may be invited by an external investor to be party to the management moving forwards which is a potential conflicted scenario<\/p>\n<p>Building an extended network of investors and IPs requires substantial network development and beyond the resources of a solo TD to achieve<\/p>\n<p>There is no standard definition of turnaround and or even a successful outcome<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Excess capacity confuses the capability issue<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What does a successful turnaround look like? At best it is always it is making the very best of a very bad job.<\/p>\n<p>Management teams won\u2019t admit to one or don\u2019t dare to raise the flag expecting things to get better<\/p>\n<p>Escalating badly behaving banks or unfairness of the HMRC through the political system is a very real threat for publicly owned banks, and UK plc<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Management pick up the phone to the wrong person<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Corporate finance are a common port of call, bank and creditors are the last to know. The HMRC are misunderstood &#8211; and NOT technically a business creditor, although they have allowed a outstanding debt of about \u00a350Bn to accrue financing UK Plc. They do precipitate administrations but unlike banks without regard to the business viability or with respect to the collateral economic damage<\/p>\n<p>External parties try and sell to management teams management teams whom become pied pipers collecting these until the inevitable insolvency event happens and the vultures land<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Economic factors hiding the issue and preventing Darwin\u2019s extinction<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Artificial Fiscal policy &#8211; Interest rates are too low to precipitate a natural cleansing of weak companies<\/p>\n<p>Many good businesses are secured on property valuations which are now undervalued, leaving a technical insolvency or zombie company<\/p>\n<p>Bank employees have been complicit in borrowing too much money too and investing in flawed property deals so have a vested personal interest in not acting<\/p>\n<p>some Banks have been allowed not to present their accounts for many years possibly hiding issues to be addressed<\/p>\n<p>Banks are not lending is a misnomer on face value &#8211; there an no business plans worth investing in and as Alan Sugar suggested 8\/10 he looked at require an IP<\/p>\n<p>Zombie companies damage markets, as they create a false market for products as they should have been shut, leaving the market to naturally regain its own level<\/p>\n<p>The UK plc balance sheet is broken but no-one will admit it, so no one wishes to push the house of cards, what will the precipitate this event?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Engagement skills are insufficient<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Turnaround execs don\u2019t have the skills to engage to get the client to a point of realization that they need to act and or if they do can\u2019t develop the rapport through delivery fast enough to remain effective and achieve a successful outcome across enough fronts<\/p>\n<p>Like A&amp;E Triage turnaround requires a team not an individual<\/p>\n<p>An understanding of distressed behaviour is required, which requires executive coaching skills and an understanding of the distressed mind and making sense of the odd noise it makes. Management teams are often consequently replaced too soon by investors destroying value<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Turnaround stakeholders are always conflicted, so a successful outcome is always a compromise<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Stakeholder control switches from management -&gt; bank -&gt;insolvency practitioner -&gt; new investor, and the process appears to move in a seamless manner<\/p>\n<p>Banks want their money back<\/p>\n<p>Asset strippers success is recovering the assets and closing the business<\/p>\n<p>Asset based lenders don\u2019t care if there is a successful business as they have their security<\/p>\n<p>Turnaround professionals want their fees<\/p>\n<p>VCs can be ruthless in achieving a financial outcome<\/p>\n<p>Investors won\u2019t invest pre insolvency; won\u2019t pay existing creditors; good money after bad. Investors won\u2019t invest unless the asset base supports or exceeds their investment<\/p>\n<p>VCs over leverage organisations to maximise cash returns per transaction often burdening the real business with unsustainable debt<\/p>\n<p>Banks are very worried about their reputations so would rather not act to mitigate any adverse PR and become \u201caction shy\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Directors skills are lacking<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most company directors have no idea of the legal risks the face due for example through wrongful trading, nor have much knowledge of the insolvency act 1986 of companies act 2006<\/p>\n<p>Financial returns on turnaround are relatively low and very high risk require real courage<\/p>\n<p>Turnaround professionals tend to look after themselves when a dispassionate approach right for the business is what is required<\/p>\n<p>Taking equity as a turnaround professional to reward the risk taken can put the TD at risk of a conflict of interest<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Solo solution dominated by banks turnaround panels is flawed<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The individual turnaround solution is unreliable; not enough capacity, goes on holiday, no QA oversight, very proprietary, inconsistent service etc<\/p>\n<p>Banks selecting turnaround professionals based on their personal prior experience of working with them is catch 22 market and they are not trained in selecting these people either its all based on hearsay without any proper QA<\/p>\n<p>Most centrally managed bank teams of professionals are focused on restructuring debt not securing the operational ability of the business to generate sustainable levels of cash moving forwards<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">People posing as turnaround professionals<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is a Definition of a turnaround?<\/p>\n<p>Very few even seasoned executives can cope with the challenge when faced with the reality nor understand the legal technicalities<\/p>\n<p>The solution requires a team so an individual is flawed<\/p>\n<p>The shortest time a director has been accused of wrongful trading from joining is 10 days \u2013 a single person cannot create a viable plan or get to grips with the issues and create the financials in a\u00a0 few days. But there are few to catch them.<\/p>\n<p>The skills to become a lead turnaround professional are more personal skills than technical skills, what are the professional development stages?<\/p>\n<p>Shadow directorship risks &#8211; create a risk compromised outcome, rather than a drive to act correctly.<\/p>\n<p>The paradox of professionals is to know what you know, but in the instance of a turnaround its more important to be aware of what you don\u2019t know but know when to take advice from the specialist member of the team or extended team<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>investors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes there is a good business with no exit &#8211; so no investment and will fail<\/p>\n<p>HMRC inflexibility forces many good businesses into administration<\/p>\n<p>Business angel networks are motivated to provide cash only often endorsing an doomed status quo when what is required is turnaround support<\/p>\n<p>Bank services are not joined up and can compete to recover their assets without working to the same plan and attempts to do so cause delays that cause businesses to fail<\/p>\n<p>Endless increasing returns on investments which have been the norm are probably now unrealistic. Exits are more difficult to realize cash with longer earn outs etc<\/p>\n<p>VCs are under pressure from troubles in their own portfolios can limit their capacity ability to scale to support good but sometimes complex businesses to fix<\/p>\n<p>Exits are becoming impossible in 2012 as there are few shining stars to sell with flat growth, and someone has to have the cash to buy them<\/p>\n<p>Corporate do their own divestment&#8217;s \/ acquisitions internally without touching the world of turnaround, and have the cash to fund this themselves so never comes to the banks notice<\/p>\n<p>Many SMEs just shut their doors and close down, and never ask for help<\/p>\n<p>VCS are under threat of going bust because they cannot sell their investments, so the temptation is to take cash from their portfolio and or restructure the businesses with debt<\/p>\n<p>Traditional bank lending against cash flow has stopped &#8211; No one lends against cash flow projections any more, only against assets<\/p>\n<p>VCS are very bright but often lack management skills to lead the change they embark upon, adverse PR from issues can make further fund raising more difficult<\/p>\n<p>Some portfolios of former successful VCs are struggling, and they need to challenge their model from origination, deal, incubation, maturation \u2013 exit and who they partner with in order to scale or manage their own portfolios<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>2012 market and top line stability<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Turnarounds historically have been dependent on a stable top line and cutting the business back to a defend able core. In the current market business pressures are coming from falling revenue forcing VCS into uncharted territory that makes the investment look more like a high risk growth investment<\/p>\n<p>There are not many good businesses to invest in, and very little visible deal flow \u2013 as Alan Sugar said &#8211; most need an IP or don\u2019t have a plan and no one ids the successful outcome; some require operational excellence to identify what might good look like<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Turnaround Terminology is very confusing<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A financial restructuring is what the banks call a turnaround when that\u2019s the easy part as the difficult part is getting the business to independently generating sustainable levels cash<\/p>\n<p>VC restructuring terms like mezzanine, pick &amp; pack, etc mean nothing to many, and were evolved in the good old days when in fact the tough market has forced some simplification, more debt \/ equity and asset based lending pushing out the very complex instruments<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Turnaround market &#8211; A challenge to fix! 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