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Continual Improvement: | 1. The LeXica Foundation is an international venture capital organization operated by a group of IT professionals who sold their products and companies in the 1980s and 1990s and needed a way to use those funds in an effective way. | 2. On the back of products like: IEW, AWS, Coolgen, CA-Gen, Telon, Ties and Eliza; the foundation was founded in Bermuda in 1989 and has invested in hundreds of people in all parts of the world. | 3. When people have achieved their dreams and earned more than they can spend, they do not need to invest in capital gains, they invest in helping other people to achieve their dreams. | 4. This Foundation provides financial stability for independent companies that are invited to become members of a Federations of like-minded companies. |
To help enough other people achieve their dreams is my dream |
Business Model: | 1. Ross Perot ran to be USA President in 1992 having earned more than he could spend by leading the Chrysler IT department to become the biggest independent IT company in the world. | 2. Ross pioneered a business model where every project was operated as a legal company with its own open book accounting. | 3. The customer had open and transparent access to what things cost and what they needed to pay to keep the project viable. | 4. The customer had the right to reduce what they paid where profits were being made and to increase what they paid when costs increased. | 5. Customer centric businesses have a target to break even each year with the customer in a position to make all the decisions needed to minimize their costs and maximize the financial stability of the project. | 6. Some think of a company as a wealthy dictator with an army of slaves who are hired, exploited and fired to make the dictator even more wealth. | 7. The Federation is a large number of independent companies who are not exploited slaves and who cannot be fired where the foundation is motivated to break-even in the long-term. |
Funding: | 1. The Foundation funds independent people who have earned the right to operate their own business based on experience and a dream to do things better. | 2. Funding includes the economy of scale by sharing resources with other members and being customers of other members - just like a franchise, but its called a Federation. | 3. Stability is founded on working with many hundreds of people in all market sectors in all parts of the world. Some businesses may find they are in direct competition with others, so the person with the best method of working is likely to survive. | 3. The Foundation invests in people with a dream and a vision of a better way of doing business. Independent People are encouraged to build a disruptive business that does not copy what their competitors do. | 4. In a competitive market, the company with the lowest cost of doing business will survive the company with massive overheads. | 5. A partnership of 10 or 20 agile members can take on and win market share from any big company where people are not permitted to make changes. Big companies give people job titles to limit what they can do, while independent people can do anything and everything. | 6. An independent research company can be founded by a collection of members where grants are available by different governments. Australia has proven to be a top country for operating research companies as grants of up to 85% of the costs are available. It could be said that 85% of the costs of collating knowledge as business rules is original research - it has never been done before yet the outcomes are deployable application services. |
Watch what others do - most fail, so do something different. |
Business Continuity: | 1. This document is part of the Business Continuity Service (BCS) managed in compliance with ISO 22301 Business Continuity Standard. No person has the ability to stop Eliza because no person knows the very large number of places where Eliza is operating at any time. | 2. The Federation has evolved from three to four generations of people who have a long term decision making capability because the threat of mergers and acquisitions has been eliminated. People can cooperate with one another without the need to know if they are members of the Federation. | 3. By design, the Federation cannot be sold, cannot become bankrupt and cannot be owned by a people who could change its constitution, aims and objectives. Eliza is a service that cannot be sold. Knowledge is an asset that cannot be traded. Eliza without knowledge is worthless and knowledge without Eliza is worthless. | 4. Shareholder returns are meaningless, short term company valuations are meaningless because the only thing that exists is very good people with very good tools that can help others in all parts of the world. | 5. The Federation is multinational and coexists in hundreds of countries at the same time - many hundreds of registered offices exist without a contolling hierarchical structure. | 6. All tasks are done by Eliza who works for a very large number of companies at the same time. Eliza is not paid by the hour and cannot be fired - Eliza is not an employee. Eliza works 24*7 without any holiday entitlement. Eliza has a pension plan to never retire, but to continually evolve and grow into more data centers. Eliza does not make an annual tax return to any country. Eliza does not pay for an office, does not pay for health insurance and does not pay general employers insurance. Eliza can trade in almost 100 countries at the same time without creating any capital gains liabilities. No country can claim sovereignty over Eliza. | 7. Business Continuity for the long term is built into the structure and operation of the Federation and every associate company. In this context,long term means twenty-five year generations where a family can expand the Federation to bring in their children (after they have learned applicable skills) and can plan for the following generation of people to sustain the business so retirement becomes obsolete. | 8. When a person works for themselves they cannot be fired - business continuity based on a very large number of people who cannot be fired is sustainable. What is good for the company owner must eventually be good for each employee when they are granted the right to own their own company. The reverse is also true; the company that get fat by exploiting the work done by its slave employees is not sustainable and will eventually be sold or will become bankrupt. | 9. Business Continuity is enabled with open book and transparent accounting so an independent company has an objective to break even at the end of each year. Where the monthly charges made by customers is too high, then the customer has the right to a discount or refund. Where the monthly charges made by customers is too low, then the customer has the right to pay the difference so the bespoke application service is viable into the future. Business continuity and financial stability is a decision made by the customer. |
Business continuity means Eliza operating from a very large number of data centers for a very large number of independent companies. |
Very Large Number of Small Companies: | 1. People have the right to do whatever they choose and to follow their dream - while remaining legal. | 2. Most people do not like change and fall back on obsolete methods of working because they do not have a dream. | 3. A few special people seize the moment with a spark of inspiration to make improvements to procedures that revolutionize their market. The world is full of ordinary people doing ordinary things with a few special people with the courage to make improvements. | 4. Where a member has discovered a better way of doing business then lots of other members can become customers and enjoy the benefits. | 5. Independent companies working together have the capacity to compete in any market, have the financial stability to survive any crisis and can spawn similar companies in other places. | 6. China, India and South America are emerging markets that need clones of proven western companies to provide similar services. It is very easy to hire experienced people in India and give them a chance of earning a living and achieving their dreams. | 7. The only reason that big companies hire people as slaves is because they can exploit that persons skill to earn more than they are paid. Do not try to own these people as slave employees, give them the opportunity to operate their own company their own way. These people who are clever enough to earn profits for their employer and clever enough to earn more working for themselves. |
Federated Companies: | 1. The "Soton" project is typical where the mission was to build and operate a large student accommodation block. | 2. The client owned the land and approved the plans with the business requirement for the student accommodation block to be operated for twelve years with no costs. | 3. A large number of subcontractors were commissioned for building, furnishing and operating. All were offered and accepted ongoing costs for work done and a future percentage share of profits. | 4. The building was built and morgaged for the builders to be paid the costs of doing the work. The vast majority of builders were self-employed construction workers - nobody worked as an employee. | 5. Furnishings were donated with only delivery and fitting costs - furnishing will be replaced as needed with an annual maintenance charge. | 6. Accommodation is outsourced to a local hotel who treat this as a marginal cost on their overall business. Annual payments will repay the local hotel many times over and fund other projects of this kind. | 7. Project management is a major initial and continual activity that was outsourced to a local team who could be on-site most days. The primary contractor is a small company based in Manchester who may have visited the site on a few occasions. | Conclusion a large number of small companies can take on and complete a multi-million pound project for a customer who does not have the internal skills to do it themselves. Project control was exacting with every room completed as planned, with manpower on-site only when needed and deliveries scheduled to the hour. Even the induction training, canteen facilities and car parking were scheduled with precision to minimize costs. |
Long Term Stability: | 1. As a policy, no company should exceed ten people - two people is the best target. When the business increases to twelve people, it must be fragmented into three growing companies of four people to minimise risk and ensure business continuity. | 2. A company of four people are more motivated to succeed than a company of twelve people where some people want others to do most of the work. | 3. Three companies working in cooperation do not have a single point of failure and can deliver much more than one larger company where some people are not pulling their weight as a single point of failure. | 4. The majority of company owners have a major skill deficiency - the inability to delegate. Many company owners imagine that they know more than their employees and imagine that they only employ people they can intimidate. The best company owners can delegate a whole division of their business to a person who is skilled and motivated to make it happen as an independent company. | 5. When the Federation exceeded ten independent companies, then stability and business continuity was proven. When the Federation exceeded one hundred independent companies, then stability and business continuity was guaranteed for the long term. | 6. Not all independent companies are a long term success because some owners get run over, some get cancer and some get killed when on holiday. However the tragic end of any one independent company has no significant impact on the long term stability of the foundation and the business continuity provided to customers. | 7. Business continuity is provided to both customers and Federation members by Eliza never stopping even in the event of a tragic death of an independent company owner. Many other independent companies are able to sustain the same Eliza driven bespoke application service for the customer with no delays and no interuption of service. |
Fifty Years: | 1. For the past fifty years, computers have been a tool to help people be more productive. IBM dominated the world for decades as mainframe computers drove corporations to earn more in less time. Microsoft dominated the world for decades as one-per-desk computers with Office software enabled smaller companies to become more productive and earn more. Google now dominates the world with smart phones that are many times more productive than any Microsoft computer or IBM mainframe. | 2. The rate of productivity improvement has increased in each decade and that improvment will become even faster in the coming decades. Computers have almost become so small as to be insignificant and the Internet now takes center stage. The Internet will become insignificant as block chain takes center stage with shared immutable ledgers and contracts. | 3. The single constant is higher and higher levels of productivity. Those people who choose not to change must be left behind to whither in a world without tools. Those people who choose to engage in continual education leading to greater productivity will prosper. | 4. A person with an artificial intelligent assistant will be more productive and earn more than a person who can only do things manually. A company using twenty year old Microsoft Office technology will never be able to compete with a company using artificial intelligence in simple productivity terms. | 5. A traditional company with a head office will never be able to compete with a disruptive company that only exists online. An obsolete company that exploits staff to do slave labour cannot survive in a world where people with an artificial intelligent assistant can work for themselves. |
Document Control. | 1. Document Title: Business Continuity: Continual Improvement. | 4. Description: Business Continuity: Continual Improvement. | 3. Keywords: Business Continuity: Continual Improvement. | 6. Privacy: Shared with approved people for the benefit of humanity. | 7. Page: 162604. | 8. Edition: 1.1. | 9. Issued: 2 Jan 2018. |
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