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Ian Matthews · Revenue strategy and operations · London

Revenue is an operating system.
Most companies still run it by hand.

Ian Matthews
Fig. 01 · The operator

I run the global commercial operating system for a $1.5B ARR enterprise software business.

I treat strategy, the data foundation, the operating model and the cadence that gets a leadership team to decide as one system. They're designed together, measured together, and run on a rhythm that still holds long after the planning offsite has been forgotten. The frameworks here come from doing that at global scale, and they work at a fraction of it.

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Ian Matthews
Scale
$1.5B ARR
Practice
Revenue strategy & operations
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Where value is created

From where the business is to what it could produce

Every business has a gap between the revenue it produces and the revenue its market, people and products could support. You close it one building block at a time, in order. Select a block to read the framework behind it.

Fig. 02 · Where value is created
One architecture

How the frameworks fit together

Each framework takes on one part of the same problem. The Operating Philosophy sets the order, and the others fit inside it. They cover where to play and where to invest, the data and context the system runs on, the engine that runs it, the shape of the team that owns it, and the AI that now runs across all of it.

THE OPERATING PHILOSOPHY · STRATEGY TO SCORECARD STRATEGY DATA FOUNDATION OPERATING SYSTEM CADENCE SCORECARD STRATEGIC PLANNING · STRATEGY INTO A PLAN IN PREPARATION INTELLIGENCE-BASEDGTM DESIGN THE SMART TARGETINGPLAYBOOK CONTEXT ARCHITECTURE THE EXECUTIONINTELLIGENCE GAP THE GTM ENGINE INPUTS · CAPABILITY · EXECUTION · OUTCOMES THREE LOOPS 15–20 KPIS FOUR STAGES AI LAYER AI IN ENTERPRISE REVOPS THE ABSORPTION CONSTRAINT THE DENSE FUNCTION THE FUNCTION THAT OWNS IT ONE ARCHITECTURE · ANY SCALE
  1. The spine
  2. Strategy
  3. Planning
    • Strategic planning · strategy into a plan · In preparation
  4. Foundation
  5. Operating system
  6. Function
    • The Dense Function
  7. AI layer

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