You Don’t Have To Do It Alone

Benefit from the insights of other Software and Technology CEOs who have been down a similar path.

Software CEOs face a unique set of issues: navigating the move to Apps, mobile and cloud platforms, attracting and keeping scarce technical talent, leveraging social media to drive sales growth, SaaS vs. traditional pricing models, product upgrade strategies and more. Not many people understand these issues and their tradeoffs, including CEOs in other industries.

But there is one place you can turn for insightful, honest and unbiased insight, ideas and advice: the CEOs of similar-sized, non-competitive software companies.

In our expert-facilitated software company CEO peer groups, Chief Executive Network (CEN) members benefit from the experience and best practices of high-performing peers. It’s wisdom that is simply unavailable elsewhere.

Recent areas of focus include:

Tech Talent Acquisition and Retention
Market Change from Traditional to “Cloud” Computing
Business Development Strategies for Software Firms
Improving Speed of New Products to Market
How New Technologies Will Need to be Integrated into R&D
Best Practices on How to Produce Bug-Free Software
Strategies for Building a Sales Team in Non-Traditional ways Using Web 2.0
Outsourcing vs. Staying In-House
Social Media Technology from a Product Standpoint
Company Social Network Policies & Practices - For Employee Use

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What our members think about Chief Executive Network:

"CEN has allowed me the time to work on my business and has stimulated me with ideas that have increased my profits exponentially."

Alan Williams
President, Travis Software Co.
"Good rigorous discussion. Comparing metrics was a good tool to initiate powerful conversations."

Greg Adams
Resource Systems
"Excellent as usual. I appreciate the group of helpful, caring, smart people."

Ken Brott
DRB Systems, Inc.
"Great idea exchange. As always, the discussion was well worth the time. Again, this has been an excellent exchange of ideas."

Jerry Cavalieri
HPC America

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“When another CEO was discussing his bank line of credit, I discovered that I was paying 75 basis points more than the lowest rates (3/4 of 1% per year). The other CEOs gave me the names of their bankers who lend to our sector and offered to make introductions. When I went back to my bank and said I was going to be leaving and why — my local bank cut my interest rate by a whole point to retain my business. This was worth over $300,000 per year — over $2 million during the life of the loan.”

Jim Pekar
Leman USA

“I was discussing with my group how my employee health insurance costs were going to increase over 20% for the next year. I discovered that I was already paying over 50% more per employee than some of my peers. Two of the other members described their captive insurance programs and the benefits/savings with their approach. I ended up moving to a captive insurance model too and am saving 30% — which is over $500,0000 per year.”

Scott Nord
UltraSource

“When I got promoted to the CEO job, I was weak on financial metrics (I had been the SVP of Sales). I explained to the group that my company had a profit issue — was losing over $100,000 per month — and that if I couldn’t reverse the trend by growing sales, my company would hit the wall and go bankrupt within 6 months. The group diagnosed my real problem — which was a bloated executive team payroll. - and they encouraged me to cut out the dead wood and lower performing executives quickly. I did that — eliminated over $200,000 per month in payroll within 3 months — and has been profitable and growing ever since. My CEN group saved my company.”

Pete Sisti
CEO, Novanex

"During an Ex-Officio Meeting in 2011, I was given advice by 5 other CEOs in the room, all German nationals. We were contemplating an acquisition of a competitor in Germany, and the advice I received that day allowed me to close on a very successful acquisition. With Germany as our new European base, we were able to grow our international sales from 5% of total sales to more than 50% in just 6 years!"

Jeff Evans
CEO, Will-Burt

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