Steps to Prepare Your Company for an Acquisition
Scott Millwood
FULL SHOW NOTES
https://podcast.nz365guy.com/280
- A discussion about with Scott as the CEO and co-founder of Customer Effective.
- Scott’s role and responsibilities
- Acquisition of Customer Effective by Hitachi in 2014
- A conversation about how Scott handled the acquisition.
- Discussions on how Scott prepared for the acquisition.
- With new products available in the market, how did they stay focused on what they do as an organization?
- Key things and lessons learned during the acquisition of Customer Effective
- The process involved during the acquisition of Customer Effective
- Discusses how Scott creates an effective culture within a team in an organization
- Talks about the development of skills leadership and talents within Customer effective.
- The importance of hiring people in an organization
- Scott talks about what Scott is working on right now.
- Talks about how they attract customers
- How they make sure their product fits what their customers want or need?
- Opportunities for ISVs, SI Partners, IV in relationship to Microsoft.
- How they offer services and engage in big projects.
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Scott Millwood
Scott Millwood is the CEO and co-founder of Yesflow, a business process automation company specializing in conversational AI. Scott is the former CEO and co-founder of Customer Effective which was acquired in 2014 by Hitachi, the 38th largest company in the world. Prior to co-founding Customer Effective, Scott held senior leadership positions and was an Executive Officer of Datastream Systems (NASDAQ: DSTM), a publicly traded enterprise software company. Scott is the current chairman of NEXT, an entrepreneurial support organization he co-founded in 2005. He enjoys golf, skiing, mountain biking, off-road triathlons, travel and college football.