Strategy & Due Diligence Consulting

STRATEGY & DUE DILIGENCE

It might be difficult to take a critical look and take a step back from your business, vision and strategy. This is why it is useful to be accompanied in your strategic choices. Pagamon helps you, through the identification of opportunities and risks, to position yourself strategically in a changing context.

CHALLENGES

How can we situate ourselves in a world in perpetual motion? The acceleration of product and financial flows, market trends, technological upheaval and climate change are forcing managers to constantly question their chosen trajectory.
What is the best way to keep pace with these developments and trends? Is it sufficiently robust? Is it sustainable?

The coronavirus crisis has accelerated the flow of funds, particularly the digital transformation, but it has also revealed the weaknesses of certain strategic choices or slow transformations.

Pagamon helps managers to build and adapt their company’s strategy. Our consultants work jointly with the members of the management board to draw the best possible directions to follow.
We intervene in particular on:
• Strategic planning with a 3-5 year horizon
• Strategic diagnosis
• Due diligence operations

Lorsque la transformation digitale est effectuée correctement, c’est comme une chenille qui se transforme en papillon, mais lorsqu’elle est mal faite, tout ce que vous avez c’est une chenille vraiment rapide.

George Westerman

Research Scientist, MIT Sloan Initiative on the Digital Economy

Our Solutions

Strategic Planning

3-5 YEAR STRATEGIC AND OPERATIONAL PLAN
MARKET TRENDS
COMPETITIVE STUDIES
DEVELOPMENT SCENARIOS: ACTIVITIES, POSITIONING, ACQUISITIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, ETC.
ORGANIZATIONAL CHART

Strategic Diagnosis

STRATEGIC DIAGNOSIS
RELEVANCE OF STRATEGIC CHOICES: BUSINESS MODEL, PRODUCT PORTFOLIO, OPERATIONS, ETC.
INTERNAL / EXTERNAL DIAGNOSIS: SWOT
DIAGNOSIS OF SKILLS
FINANCIAL MODELING

Due Diligence

EVALUATION OF BUSINESS PLAN ASSUMPTIONS
DETAILED HYPOTHESIS TESTING
IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION OF SYNERGIES AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
ASSESSMENT OF VALUE

Points of View

Profitability plan

Generating breakthroughs able to galvanize a cost reduction program

Operational due diligence

Driving an operational due diligence: experience of the business’ industry and due diligence process are essential

Employee Skills

How to align employees’ skills with company’s strategic objectives?

Our References

Life Sciences

Business plan for a vaccine development/manufacturing program to fight COVID-19

The client has an ambitious strategy for the development and production of an inactivated and adjuvanted SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. Pagamon supported this program and the negotiations with the governments by carrying out the business plan and financial analyses.

Food Industry

Methodological support in the definition of a business plan

The Biometrics department of the “Dairy” division has initiated a smart data approach and wants to offer its services to all Research & Innovation (R&I) departments. To do this, the manager asked Pagamon to provide him with methodological support for the development of a Business Model for these services.

Luxury

Definition, co-building & presentation of the 3-year brand strategy

Support in the definition, construction and presentation of the 3-year strategy of a luxury perfume brand, a subsidiary of an international top player in the Beauty / Cosmetics industry for the annual presentation to the Group CEO.

Tourism

Real Estate Promotion & Leisure : 360 diagnosis

The Real Estate Development department has lower profitability than the targets. The general management wishes to assess the market potential, the attractiveness of the product, the conditions for a return to profitability and the relevance of integrating the Real Estate Development activity into its new sites.

Lifesciences

Assessment for potential further vaccines acquisitions

A biotechnology company wants to identify growth opportunities through acquisition strategies. They are equally interested in therapeutic vaccines as in prophylactic vaccines.

Lifesciences

Operational due diligence for a vaccine business takeover

The client is a publicly traded biotechnology company. They want to examine an opportunity to acquire a vaccines business and called on Pagamon to carry out the analyzes and projections of this due diligence.

Lifesciences

Due diligences for the purchase of two vaccines

The goal of the mission is to refine the forecast business plan on two aspects:

Marketing & Sales: market and sales projection, M&S organization, M&S cost
Manufacturing / QC: transfer of production, projection of COGS and Capex

Automotive

Business plan for a distributor as part of its distribution contract renewal

The client wants to demonstrate its ability to meet the manufacturer’s expectations in terms of increased sales, market share and CRM. The challenge iss to keep the distribution of the models of this manufacturer for the period 2018-2023

Life Sciences

Redefinition of a product’s long-term strategy

Support in the identification and modeling of target markets for vaccine distribution and adjustment of the industrial production plan

All our references