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BEEKEEPER

GSB CONSULTING – KEEPING IT BUZZZZY


SITUATION ANALYSIS

Communi Growing Ensure


Tech Facing
cation 130 2 Rounds Long
Startup operation
and Employee Funding Term
Operation al
Collabora s Sustainab
al for 6 challenge Secured
tion 15 le
Years s
Platform Industries Growth?

How will Beekeeper transform their


business and operations to ensure
continued sustainable growth into the
future?
MANDATE – OUR VALUE PROMISE
5 Year integrated growth strategy to ensure long term
growth of diversified revenue streams and optimized
operations to ensure growth and profitability into the
future
8%
$26m 12%
Market
Revenu Profitabi
Share –
e lity
SME’s

Beekeeper the Go-To Solution for


organized and secure
communication.
KEY ISSUES
Revenue streams not sufficiently diversified – 3 industries
1.
account for 80% of Revenue
High levels of customization increases complexity and
2.
inefficiencies
3. Operational challenges within the engineering and sales divisions
RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Enter the education industry – Launch the Bee Learn Solution

2. Develop standardized product for mass market – Honeycomb

3. Restructure operations to optimize output from engineering


ANALYSIS
NICCOLO
BEEKEEPER VALUE PROPOSITION
What is Beekeeper?
A solution enabling a company’s employees to better communicate with
their organization

Manufacturin
Hotels Retail
g
All share similar employee management and
communication needs
Beekeeper solutions solve issues shared among
industries
VALUE PROPOSITION
Customer Need Beekeeper
Mobile platform
Real time communication
Secure
Compliant to regulations
Easy to adopt
Regular Enhancements

Beekeeper has a solid offering – access to new markets


will ensure growth
ENTER INTO NEW INDUSTRY
Revenue not
Hotel Cyclical
2017 diversified
Reven Retail Semi-Cyclical enough leading
ue Manufacturing Not Cyclical
to increased
80% risks
Sustainability of business model is at risk
ENTER INTO NEW INDUSTRY
Revenue not
Hotel Cyclical
2017 diversified
Reven Retail Semi-Cyclical enough leading
ue Manufacturing Not Cyclical
to increased
80% risks
Sustainability of business model is at risk

Beekeepers ~20% ~ 1000 School


product offering population students s
can be used in is school + per ~8500
0
other industries going school
Beekeeper platform can be adapted to enter into new
industries and mass market
MASS MARKET OFFERING
Increased
Industry 3 12
Offerings cor + nic complexity 
e he customized
solutions
Current operations is struggling to meet
these requirements
MASS MARKET OFFERING
Increased
Industry 3 12
Offerings cor + nic complexity 
e he customized
solutions
Current operations is struggling to meet
these requirements
Opportunity to offer a Most of
new product  beekeeper core
standardized for the features can be
mass market used by SME’s
Opportunity to deliver standardized offering for the
SME mass market
RESTRUCTURE ENGINEERING
Engineering
Sales
• Go to client Team = Impact
• Receiving
and sell
briefs from • Development work
products
• Over sales not prioritized –
• Executing on business value
promise
instruction • Projects not scoped
• Technical
from Sales • Inefficient
feasibility
• Under • Under delivery
not
delivering
assessed
Operational restructure required to optimize engineering
resources
RECOMMENDATIONS
RIHANA
ALTERNATIVES
Revenue Core
Growth Diversificatio Competencie Complexity
n s
Focus on Hospitality
Industry – Exit others
Outsource Engineering

Strategic Acquisitions
LAUNCH THE BEE LEARN SOLUTION
WHY WHAT
• Alignment with needs
of education industry Customized solution for schools
• Large number of
schools untapped
• Secure communication Communicator for parents, staff and
between parents, community
teachers and peers is
critical Updates on events, deadlines, teacher
• Non-Cyclical comments
• Success in other
regions
Secure, closed access, real time, relevant

• Subscriber Growth
OUTCOME • Revenue Growth
STANDARDIZED – LAUNCH HONEYCOMB
WHY WHAT
• VP appeals to a
range of industries Standardize core features of Beekeeper and
• Field Sales, productize
Technicians, Work
from home staff Leverage existing product and platform &
• Custom solutions key features
not required for
many industries Launch as a new product offering – SME &
• Large SME and SOHO
SOHO segment to
target 2 Options offered, no customization, monthly
revenues
• Mass Market – Subscriber Growth
OUTCOME • Revenue Growth
RESTRUCTURE OPERATIONS - OPTIMIZE
ENGINEERING
WHY WHAT
• Interaction between
sales and engineering Restructure operations 3 layer approach
currently not working
• Development
resources not
Sales  Product Manager  Engineering
optimized
• Over promising
features that are not All projects submitted to “priorities steerco”
feasible (Exco)
• Structure required to
prioritize engineering Projects are assessed and selected based on
capability business value

• Operational Efficiencies
OUTCOME • Reduced Complexity & Improved Quality
IMPLEMENTATION
JOEL
BEELEARN – EDUCATION
PLATFORM
BeeKeep
er

BeeRetai BeeLear BeeOthe


BeeHotel BeeBuild
l n r
BEELEARN – EDUCATION
PLATFORM
BeeKeep
er

BeeRetai BeeLear BeeOthe


BeeHotel BeeBuild
l n r

Connection
BEELEARN – EDUCATION
PLATFORM
BeeKeep
er

BeeRetai BeeLear BeeOthe


BeeHotel BeeBuild
l n r

Connection Internal
BEELEARN – EDUCATION
PLATFORM
Communic Sport &
Meet Needs ate Secure, safe
& sensitive
events
communicati
Results &
Homework
Strengths on
BEELEARN – EDUCATION
PLATFORM
Communic Sport &
Meet Needs ate Secure, safe
& sensitive
events
communicati
Results &
Homework
Strengths on

Notification control
Pilot at UK
USA Premium market
schools GER

January 2019
HONEYCOMB STANDARD OFFERING
Secure
Cannibalize
Real
Mobile
time

Features Custom modules


Complia
Enhance
nt
User
experience Build a passive income
HONEYCOMB STANDARD OFFERING
Secure
Cannibalize
Real
Mobile
time

Features Custom modules


Complia
Enhance
nt
User
experience Build a passive income

Focused on
2 tier offering
medium June 2019
of 50 & 100
business
OPERATIONAL OPTIMIZATION
Head of
product

BeeHot BeeRet BeeBuil BeeLear BeeOth


el ail d n er
OPERATIONAL OPTIMIZATION
Head of
product

BeeHot BeeRet BeeBuil BeeLear BeeOth


el ail d n er

Trainin Change
SCRUM &
Agile Translator
Access to Immediat
g Management
methodology
client e
FUTURE

BeeLearn HoneyComb Restructure

Non-
Standardized
customized Internal
Focused
revenue effeciencies
Revenue
source
MONITORING

BeeLearn HoneyComb Restructure

Number of Percentage
Speed of
schools of revenue
workflow
signed up share
FINANCIALS
KAVISHA
IMPLEMENTATION BUDGET - $
RECOMMENDATIO
NS INITIATIVES 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023Rec Impact H29
Roadshow 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5

Bee Learn Software and


Enter & Scale in system $
Education Industry development 0.2 0.2 3.10

User Guide
Program 0.2
Digital
Honey Comb Marketing 1 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5
Standardised $
Product 3.70
package
Development 0.5
Sales Reps 0.2

Restructure $
Communicati 0.30
on & Training 0.2 0.1
$
2.8 1.3 1 1Total 7.10
FINANCIAL ASSUMPTIONS

Bee Honey Restructu


Rec 1

Rec 2

Rec 3
Learn comb re
FINANCIAL PROJECTIONS
30,000 6000

25,000 5000
Highlights
20,000 4000
Revenue of $26m
Net Margin 12%
15,000 3000
Profit - $3m profit pa

10,000 2000

5,000 1000

- 0
1 2 3 4 5

Bee Learn Revenue Honey Comb Lite Revenue Honey Comb Premium Revenue
BEE Learn Customers Honey comb Lite Customers
CONCLUSION
LONG TERM SUSTAINABLE
GROWTH
Enter the Standardized
Restructured
education product for
operations
industry mass market

8%
$26m 12%
Market
Revenu Profitabi
Share –
e lity
SME’s

Beekeeper the Go-To Solution for


organized and secure
communication.

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