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Know what to change.Make it work.

Become combines commercial judgement, hands-on building and AI to help Chairs, CEOs and executive teams find what matters, build the response and prove it in the business.

Led and delivered by Matt Cater.

Start with the business question.

Performance is slipping. A hypothesis needs proving. Or the business has set a higher ambition. Start with the question that matters now.

Selected work.

Become engagement · Business turnaround

A single view. Before a single CRM.

Four integrated businesses were operating through four CRMs. Their data, measures and commercial processes did not align, leaving leadership unable to see the whole picture or prove its diagnosis.

In three months, Become built one shared CRM layer across all four systems. It gave every business one place to see customers, performance and activity. Teams could work consistently without waiting for a major migration, and leadership could see what any future single CRM actually needed to deliver.

With the whole business in view, customer interviews and workflow mapping revealed where orders were being lost. Simpler pricing, live quoting and automation followed.

Quote-to-order conversion

Back in profit within six months.

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Become engagement · Acquisition strategy

Acquisition opportunities assessed 10× faster.

Become built one AI-enabled decision platform around the evidence that mattered, giving leadership a faster, consistent basis for assessing opportunities.

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Prior operating role · Abcam / Danaher

Order-to-cash from 36 hours to 3.

At Abcam/Danaher, Matt reduced the cycle from 36 hours to 3 hours, cut cancellations from 10% to 1% and protected £27 million of performance.

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Find. Build. Sustain.

Find the change that matters. Build and prove the response in real work. Embed and scale what works, with the ownership, measures and routines to sustain its impact.

  1. 01. Find & Focus.

    Find what will change performance.

    Illustrative team: two colleagues examine a five-step value stream connecting people, process, technology and data, with one opportunity selected in orange.

  2. 02. Build & Prove.

    Put a better capability to work.

    Illustrative team: two colleagues build a laptop prototype and test it with a tablet and checklist; three active steps remain across five original positions, with two pale crossed-out steps visibly bypassed by the rerouted flow.

  3. 03. Embed & Sustain.

    Scale the proven capability. Make it stick.

    Illustrative team: four colleagues use the capability on laptops and a tablet in everyday office work; the same value-stream wall has two steps in the meeting room behind them.
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