Due Diligence

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"