Market research
Strategy design and review
Strategy design and review
- What is the size and value of the market for…?
- How can it be most meaningfully segmented in terms of applications, types of products, geography?
- What drives demand in each of these segments and how are these drivers likely to evolve in the next years?
- Who are the main suppliers?
- What are their perceived positioning, market shares, strengths, and weaknesses?
Strategy design and review
Strategy design and review
Strategy design and review
- What inter-technology, inter-product and inter-material competition processes are at work in the market and how will they shape future demand?
- How do I best position my brand(s) in relation to these trends?
- What are the gaps I need to fill?
- Should I diversify?
- Should I expand into additional geographies? Which ones?
- Are there potential value-generating mergers and acquisitions?
Business consulting
Operational and commercial due diligence
Operational and commercial due diligence
- What is the best practice in the industry?
- How do I achieve faster growth?
- How do I improve profitability?
- How do I differentiate my products?
- Are there any latent, unfulfilled market needs?
- How do I bolster barriers to entry and my negotiating power vis-à-vis customers and/or suppliers?
- I have developed a new product/technology – how do I commercialise it?
- Can you help me write a Business Plan?
Operational and commercial due diligence
Operational and commercial due diligence
Operational and commercial due diligence
- What are the assumptions that form the basis of the business plan (and hence of the valuation)? Are they realistic?
- What are the risks involved and how are they managed?
- Given the market's strategic, commercial and technological trends, how likely is it that the operational set-up/CapEx program will enable the target to deliver the results envisaged in the Information Memorandum?
- Are there alternative strategies/potential synergies that may deliver previously unidentified upsides?