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What is Lendlease’s business plan?

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  • Global business with three core business units across each region
  • Listed on Australian Stock Exchange
  • Share price has dropped
  • Simplify organisation structure and right size its cost base
  • Exit international construction, accelerate release of capital from offshore developments, recycle 4.5 billion by completing transactions underway
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What are Lendlease’s objectives?

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‘Create places for people to work, live, connect and enjoy’

Financial:
- Simplify organisation structure and right size its cost base
- Improve share price

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How is my team’s performance measured?

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  • Planning approvals
  • Plot completions
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How does Lendlease market itself over the short, medium and long term?

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Social, economic, environmental

Short - medium: Creating homes, jobs and improving the environment
Long: Tackling UK housing crisis, creating growth in areas, leaving the environment better than how we found it

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What is included in a business plan?

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  • Opportunities and risks
  • Resources required to service clients
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What is a SWOT analysis?

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Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats

  • Anticipate different SWOTs which helps with strategic thinking
  • Helps decision making
  • Helps set realistic objectives
  • Allocate resources
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How can firm’s plan for future business activities and ensure they hit the required profit margin?

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Fee forecasts

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How can firm’s allocate resources and expenditure?

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  • Budgets
  • Cash flows
  • Financial / audit controls
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How would you set up as a sole practitioner?

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RICS requirements and Statutory requirements for starting a a firm
I would then put business plan together

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What is a sole practitioner?

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Individual who works independently without any partners

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What is a partnership?

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Partners share responsibility of the firm

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What is an LLP?

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Limited Liability Partnership - Partners have personal liability

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What is a limited company?

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Owned by shareholders, liability limited by shares, formally register on Companies House, shareholders don’t have personal liability

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What is a PLC?

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Public Limited Company - Shareholders own company, directors manage it, listed on stock exchange

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How could a firm monitor its performance and what key management tools would be needed?

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Financial - Revenue, profit margin, return on investment
Operational - Production output (number of flats delivered per annum)
Employee - Turnover rates
Customer - Customer retention rates, complaints
Quality - Defect rates, compliance with industry standards (construction - how many incidents)

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What is the RICS motto?

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There is measure in all things

Business plans can MEASURE performance

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What is a strategic business plan?

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Strategy devised to achieve overall goals set by a business - for the future rather than the present

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What are the steps in a strategic business plan?

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  1. Identify and approve framework, vision, long-term goals and objectives
  2. Position company in terms of marketing capabilities, technological advantages and available resources
  3. Sets foundation for tactical plan to achieve goals
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What is another type of business plan?

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Departmental Business Plan

  • Review of periodic metrics
  • Do metrics meet goals?
  • Do annual goals need adjusting?
  • What are the departmental needs to meet the goals?
  • Individual staff metrics
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What is an operational business plan?

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Work planning stage
- Requirements for professional service
- Criteria (legislation / rules of Conduct)
- Resources (what do you need to undertake work)
- Acceptance by client
- Documented information (any deliverables to produce or retain)

Delivery phase
- Customer communication
- Determine requirements
- Change of requirements
- Review requirements

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What is a corporate business plan?

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  • Vision statement
  • Mission (how you will achieve business plan)
  • Resources (and scope of works)
  • Objectives (corporate objectives, need to be measurable)
  • Strategies (how to reach objectives)
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What is an organisational structure?

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Functional structure (hierarchical):
- Managing Director
- Then Building Surveyors, QS, Architects
- Then Placement student, CAD technician

Divisional structure (each discipline is split by division):
- Managing Director
- Then Surveying division (with admin and finance, marketing)
- Alongside QS division (with admin and finance, marketing)

Matrix structure (each team reports into head of team and head of function):
- Managing Director
- Delivery Manager
- All delivery team report into Delivery Manager and Project Lead

Flatarchy (not flat, not hierarchical):

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What is working capital?

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A company’s ability to pay it’s working liabilities with its current working assets

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What is a stock?

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Also known as equity

Ownership of a fraction of an entity

Units of stock are called shares

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What is a debtor?
Company / individual who owed money If debt is from a financial institution, the debtor is called a borrower If the debt is in the form of bonds, the debtor is called an issuer Someone who files for bankruptcy is called a debtor
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What are the two types of debt?
Loans - Trade debtor - Someone who hasn't paid you for your goods or services yet Creditor - Party that is owed money by another party
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What are current ratios?
A type of financial benchmarking Current ratio = Current Assets / Current Liabilities If ratio is below 2:1 it is a cause for concern for a business to repay it's debts Nowadays businesses trade on a 1:1 ratio basis
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What are quick ratios?
Measures liquidity quicker than the current ratio, because turning stock into cash takes times Quick ratio = Current Assets less Stock / Current Liabilities
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What is gross profit margin?
Gross profit as a percentage of turnover Gross profit % = gross profit / turnover x 100
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What is breaking even point?
Break even = Fixed expenses / gross margin
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What is net profit margin?
Net profit % = Net profit / turnover x 100 If net profit is declining, look at which costs increased the most
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What is return on capital employed? ROCE
Return on capital employed = Net profit / net assets x 100
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What do you mean by short, medium and long term goals?
1 years 5 years 10 years
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How often are your team meetings and what project milestones do you speak about?
Fortnightly - Planning applications submitted / validated / consented - Design updates like starting / ending a design stage - Construction updates like topping out / PC
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How often are your development team meetings and what business updates are given?
Monthly - New business strategy (e.g. reduce head count, cash back into business, selling construction business) - Role as Development Manager rather than Developer - Options for projects with new strategy
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What business operations have you undertaken outside your role that align with LL business strategy?
The Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government does consultations on planning issues and I have provided responses on behalf of Lendlease in relation to: - Planning fees - Brownfield development
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What is a business plan?
- Formal statement of goals, why they are achievable, and the plan for reaching these goals - Background info of team / firm - Presented to funders / investors
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What are general contents of a business plan?
- Exec Summary - Business concept (Property Developer and Investor) - Strategy and actions - Case studies / products / competitive advantage - Markets pursuing - Management team and employees - Competition - Financial statements - Financing needs
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What are the key headings you would find in a business plan?
- Intro - Short, medium, long term goals - Financial performance targets - Market analysis - opportunities and threats - Business analysis - Strengths and weaknesses
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What targets might you pursue in a business plan?
- Growth of fees / profit - Growth into certain markets - Building relationships with clients
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How would you prepare a long term business strategy?
- Description of business - Identify stakeholders and needs - Analyse existing strategy is applicable - SWOT - PEST (political, economic, social, technological) - SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, timebound) - Marketing strategy - Resources (labour / capital) - Implement strategy - Review KPIs and areas for improvement - Monitor and review progress
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What is an investment appraisal?
Techniques used to assess if a firm is a good investment. - Payback (time it takes for capital investment inflows to equal initial cash outflows) - Rate of Return (want a high one) - DCF (converts future PV into PV, accounts for inflation) - NPV (inflows minus outflows, used discounted cash flows to calculate NPV of a series of cashflows, measures delta in shareholder wealth over time)
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What is the RICS business plan?
- Ensure it is trusted by their stakeholders and society - Ensure the RICS qualifications are in demand - Ensure the RICS is an influential thought leader - Ensure members are involved and engaged - Ensure it is a sustainable 21st century professional body
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What is an outline business case?
- Early reporting of reasoning for initiating a project - Entails project background, basic costs, risks, options - Opportunity cost of doing nothing - Case informs the business case - Clients should always have more than one option
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How / why do you need to assess different project options?
- Feasibility study - Intro, brief, analysis, identify best option, cost analysis, appendices
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What are current macroeconomic trends?
Inflation: 2.8 - 3% Base Rate: 4.5 - 4.75%
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What are current development and construction industry trends?
Development: - Following NPPF 2024 update, more landowners are looking to bring sites forward in 2025 - House price growth expected to increase by 4% which is good if you are looking to sell - High demand low supply set to continue and push rental prices up - Build to Rent - Life Sciences Construction: - Building costs increase by 17% over next 5 years - Tender prices (cost to client) will increase by 15% over next 5 years

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