ABSTRACT

Commercial Due Diligence (CDD) is about telling the difference between superior businesses and poor businesses, which is why this book is a mixture of business strategy, marketing analysis and market research. However CDD is not about the bland application of analytical techniques, it's about understanding how businesses and markets work and what is really important for profits and growth. Commercial Due Diligence is written by someone with over 25 years' experience of practical strategic analysis who nonetheless has a strong academic grounding. For the first time here is a book that deals with the essentials of strategic analysis with the practitioner's eye. If you are in the business of formulating company strategy, and you want to see how to apply the theories and understand in practical terms what works, when, and what can go wrong, this is the book for you.

part |44 pages

The Basics

chapter |28 pages

What's It All About?

chapter |12 pages

Getting Started

part |219 pages

Analytical Techniques

chapter |24 pages

Which Market is the Target In?

chapter |25 pages

Industry Attractiveness

chapter |11 pages

Which Customers is the Target Serving?

chapter |36 pages

Ability to Compete

chapter |7 pages

Competitor Analysis

chapter |29 pages

The New Reality

chapter |28 pages

CDD in Special Situations

chapter |19 pages

Assessing Management

chapter |31 pages

Using the Output

part |75 pages

Collecting and Presenting the Data

chapter |29 pages

Structuring and Planning

chapter |24 pages

Interviewing

chapter |17 pages

Writing the Report