Corporate Sale: An independent validation report on the seller’s assets and performance in relation to its marketplace that justifies its valuation and potential for acquisition, creating a fully evidenced account of the company and why it should be sold at a premium/ discount in relation to standard industrial/ financial multipliers.
Finding Prospective Purchasers: A short listing process that produces qualified leads for company purchases using a three phase process that analyses the industry value chain for prospects (within and without the industry), assesses corporate fit, and provides supporting evidence for why and how short listed purchasers should be approached
Technical and Market Due Diligence: A reporting process for friendly or hostile acquisitions that identifies client assumptions about key outcomes of the acquisition process, reviews these assumptions against available industry and company information and profiles any client risk arising from gaps between assumptions and the evidence base
Investment Appraisal: An independent appraisal of the technological, market, product or operational opportunities and risks associated with an investment prospect using industry-specific templates to produce a quantified and qualified risk profile and current industry data and trend information to test assumptions about market growth and value.
Corporate Diversification: A process that enables a client to evaluate the cost/ benefits of diversification into new product markets by profiling its competencies in current markets, benchmarking them against known success criteria/ good practice for the new markets, quantifying the corporate gap in terms of risks/ opportunities/ costs, translating the outcome of the research and analysis into a clearly defined action plan.
Corporate Growth: A process that measures the options for new business growth (in terms of products and markets) and the associated risks and rewards of each option. Our analysis looks at current corporate performance, profiles it against the requirements for success in current and new markets, and identifies the key risk areas and what is needed to address them. The final output is an action plan for achieving targeted company growth.
Internationalisation or Globalisation: A process that identifies the opportunities and the required actions for a company to go global in its chosen markets. Our research process can quantify and qualify the new target markets, identify entry points into those markets, analyse current company performance and identify the changes necessary to achieve globalisation and devise the new business model/ strategy necessary to achieve global status.
Consolidation: A process that measures company performance in its current markets, compares this performance with competitors and with market requirements, identifies the markets where the company has the greatest competitive profile, devises the new business model/ strategy for consolidation around the selected markets and identifies the actions necessary to reduce business risk and improve profitability through consolidation.
Corporate Re-Cycling: A process that enables the client to fully evaluate the business options for the re-cycling or re-purposing of a problem site. Our research includes measuring the capabilities of the site, identifying new applications (products and markets) for those capabilities and developing the business model/strategy for the new business.
Corporate Recovery and Reconstruction: An analytical report that identifies and evidences options for realising future corporate value through restructuring, sale, repositioning or diversification based upon an informed assessment of industry and market conditions and the ability of the company (or its parts) to compete in the future
Identifying Technology Applications: A research-based product that identifies multiple potential product applications and markets for early stage technologies.
Quantifying Technology Application Markets: An evidence-based assessment of each potential new technology market looking at current size, availability, and 3-5 year growth
Assessing Technology Applications: A software and research-based product that provides expert guidance through the early stages of auditing, ‘scoring’, ranking, valuing and selecting new product opportunities for further investment/ intensified effort.
Market Assessments of Technology Applications: A research-based service providing detailed market assessments (target markets, market potential, channels, customers and partners) for new product opportunities that have passed beyond prototype or pilot stage.
Licensing Assessment for Technology Applications: Detailed analysis of potential license revenues, manufacturing/ distribution requirements and identification/ short listing of potential licensees for whom the technology represents a commercial opportunity
Start Up Assessment for Technology Applications: Detailed analysis of and planning for a new business spin-out, including Business Model, Marketing, Product Features, Competitors, Sales Potential, Operational Delivery, R&D and Financial Planning
Business Start Up Support: Consulting support and mentoring that includes business plan development, team development, launch support, customer relationship management, access to investment funding sources and continuing business aftercare.
Global Opportunity Assessment: A research project and report that compares current export performance for a country or region in a given sector, industry or market with a detailed analysis of global growth trends and opportunities in leading or emerging economies.
Sector Baseline Analysis: Detailed research and report that quantifies regional economic performance for a given sector, industry or markets in a specific region in terms of business mix, company density, sales performance, market growth and employment.
Regional Sector Benchmarking: Detailed research and report that compares regional economic performance for a given sector, industry or markets with related national regions or with regions from across the leading and emerging economies.
Supply Base Assessment: Detailed research and report into the characteristics and performance of the regional supply base to a given industry and an assessment of its potential to compete for future large scale business opportunities (known contracts or infrastructure projects) or to remain competitive within rapidly changing markets
Infrastructure & Industrial Investment Appraisal: Detailed quantitative research into the economic benefits of, and business case for, large scale infrastructure (e.g. a port or manufacturing park) or industrial development (e.g. specialist centres, processing plants, or ecosystem support) projects that require public investment
Innovation Assessment: Detailed quantifiable analysis and report on product innovation and R&D performance within a given regional sector, industry, or market compared with other national regions and with other sectors.
Market Observatory: Online access to updating market data and intelligence for key global sectors that can be used by internal research teams to focus upon and define innovation, export and inward investment programmes and activities.