Mick Furlong talks to an experienced leader in management, risk management and crisis management. The significance of having a Business Continuity Plan - how you respond and managing all the stakeholders, a great insight from one of our experts Ed Flanagan.
Ed is an experienced leader working in many sectors, his passions
- Helping entrepreneurs work on their business rather that in their business
- Pattern matching and mapping, applying my experience to help others
- Bring clarity to Business Models, USP, UVP, and areas to drive and areas to drop
- Reducing costs, avoiding waste and increasing market share - driving profit growth
- Adding testimonials to proof point my commitment to helping others
Qualifications
- BA (hon),1st Class in Statistics
- Finance, ACCA (L2)
- Prince2, Practitioner
- Lean Six Sigma, Black Belt (pending)
Experience Corporate World Class Leader IBM
- 1st, 2nd, 3level management and Executive
- Finance
- Operations
- Outsourcing
- Real Estate,
- Communication
- Pricing and Special Bids,
- Sales and Marketing
- Audit, Process improvement, Lean Six sigma
- Change management , Business Continuity, ISC
Experience SMEs
- Founder of small business Photography
- Mentor with several LEOs, 100s of SME, with numerous exceptional testimonials confirming knowledge sharing/confidence building and simplification.
- Finance
- Cashflow forecasting
- Pricing
- Business Model/ Business Case development
- Funding and MFI preparation, VC and Angle funds
- Pitching Business / Pitching both business and self branding
- Business Continuity - and pivoting
- Bookkeeping/Tax/Vat/Tax returns
- Ideation
- Brexit preparation/execution
- Lean for small businesses
- Trading Online Voucher ( assessor)
- Scaling
- PLATO speaker
Notable memberships/affiliations
- Mentor with several LEOs in Dublin and around the country
- PLATO speaker
- Associate with GMn
- Consultant with Etec
- Chairman of Innovate Dublin Board
Our interview today is Mick Furlong - one of the founding partners of the Grey Matters Network.
Mick is experienced Non-Executive/Executive Director. I have held Non-Exec Roles in several IT Start Ups and on the National Council of ISME. I have held Executive Roles in Bord Gais, Aviva Insurance, VHI Healthcare and Accenture. I have established a successful Consulting/Recruitment Organisation. I have multi-sector experience across Financial Services, Fintech, Energy, Insurance, Healthcare, Technology and Consulting. My core capabilities include Risk, Governance, Technology and Operating Model Transformation.