Due Diligence
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Acquisitions, VC funding, joint ventures, new
product developments and ongoing internal business plans all require
adequate financial and managerial oversight. Stakeholders - shareholders,
partners, directors, customers and employees - insist upon external,
independent validation and commentary on business plans' assumptions. |
Recent events in the technology sector have highlighted the need for improved
corporate governance and vigorous challenges to "sacred" assumptions.
Disruptive Analysis brings a long history of providing critical advisory
input to the technology sector in this regard. We can offer unbiased, rigorous
analysis of:
- Market dynamics and forecast growth in a given industry/sector
- Assessment of "reasonableness" of consensus market expectations
- Second opinion on an acquisition target's business plan, or its view of its own
industry
- "Devil's Advocacy": a sceptical view of all assumptions, highlighting
hidden risk factors
- Comparison of realistically addressable market opportunity vs. "headline"
numbers
- "Potential market" modelling for new or theoretical products or services
- Consideration of a target's management's execution ability
- Competitive or substitutional threats
- Analysis of risk of "value chain isolation"
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