• Strategic Company and Market Audits
• Acquisition Strategy and Implementation
• New Growth/New Business Focus
• Strategic Market Research and Analysis
• Market and Company Positioning and Branding
• New Products and Services - Management of Innovation

• Identify key acquisition criteria
• Assess business needs/gaps
• Identify key adjacent growth areas (Market Mapping)
• Identify and characterize key targets for acquisition
• Conduct full valuation analysis
• Organize and support due diligence

• Performed an acquisition strategy overview and plan for a company in the training and content development business. The process included developing an industry market map, setting up acquisition criteria and creating a screening grid, identifying specific acquisition targets, and pointing to strategic issues that needed to be resolved to make the acquisition strategy successful.
• Led a team to identify new/adjacent markets for a
• Led a team to identify new/adjacent markets for a $300 million company: helped to establish criteria for selection, performed in-depth studies of key adjacent markets, selected key targets for acquisition and presented to top management a total strategy for growth by acquisition.
• Aided a software company in its strategy for acquisition and its valuation of key company target.
• Set up a plan for being acquired for a software company without the product breadth and capability to survive as a separate entity. Conducted in-depth research on adjacent and overlapping markets, and identified good potential matches for their long-term success.

Some of the many technology areas in which we have worked, are listed here.