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Commercial due diligence checklist
Structured review of counterparty, capacity, documentation, economics and execution.
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Tools for checking before deciding.
Practical templates for organising evidence, exposing assumptions and documenting a decision. They do not replace professional review or turn incomplete information into certainty.
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Supplier evaluation matrix
Weighted comparison of capacity, quality, resilience, compliance and dependency.
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Counterparty risk matrix
Assessment of identity, control, capacity, incentives, documentation, payments and operating coherence.
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Business plan validation matrix
Test of demand, unit economics, cash, funding, scenarios and critical dependencies.
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Compare impact, urgency and effort without allowing the loudest request to dominate.
Strategic Prioritisation Matrix
Compare initiatives using consistent criteria for impact, urgency, effort and dependencies before allocating resources.
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Separate immediate cash pressure from structural liquidity weakness.
Liquidity and Treasury Diagnostic
Identify cash pressure, critical payments and available actions before liquidity constraints reduce your options.
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Compare value, urgency and risk using one decision framework.
Investment and CAPEX Assessment
Assess investments by need, total cost, cash impact, return, risk and approval conditions.
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Expose conflicts, dependencies and missing agreements before commitment.
Strategic Partner and Alliance Assessment
Review contributions, control, incentives, conflicts and exit before formalising an alliance.
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Distinguish information items from decisions and actions requiring ownership.
Management Committee Preparation
Turn the management agenda into decisions, owners, deadlines and verifiable follow-up.
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Make critical dependencies, response ownership and recovery limits explicit.
Contingency and Business Continuity Plan
Identify critical processes, dependencies, preventive measures and recovery responses with owners and timings.
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Separate sales volume from economic value and strategic relevance.
Customer and Product Profitability Analysis
Assess economic profitability and strategic value by customer, product or business line.
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Compare savings against operational damage and reversibility.
Cost Reduction without Damaging Capability
Prioritise defensible cost reductions and distinguish efficiency from indiscriminate cuts.
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Turn subjective selection into a verifiable and defensible comparison.
Executive and Key Role Assessment
Assess candidates and leaders for executive positions or critical functions.
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Filter opportunities before committing management time and capital.
Preliminary Business Acquisition Assessment
Assess a business, unit or equity acquisition before committing full due-diligence resources.
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Make control gaps and ambiguous decision rights visible.
Corporate Governance Diagnostic
Assess decision rights, information, controls, conflicts, succession and follow-up.
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Convert strategy into a short, measurable and governable plan.
90-Day Strategic Execution Plan
Structure the execution of a strategic priority over the next 90 days.
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Separate pricing, cost, mix and commercial-discipline problems.
Margin Recovery Plan
Diagnose the causes of margin erosion and prioritise recovery measures.
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Turn nominal organisation charts into verifiable responsibilities.
Organisation and Accountability Diagnostic
Assess organisational clarity, capacity, coordination and accountability.
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Avoid negotiating only on price and reduce improvised concessions.
Complex Commercial Negotiation Preparation
Structure commercial, shareholder or financing negotiations with clear limits.
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Prioritise technology by business outcomes rather than novelty.
Digital Transformation Diagnostic
Assess digital opportunities by business value, feasibility, adoption and risk.
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Define what to communicate, to whom, when and within what verification limits.
Reputational Crisis Assessment and Response
Assess severity, evidence, affected stakeholders and response capacity.
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Separate ownership, management and family relationships to protect continuity.
Family Business Succession Preparation
Assess continuity of ownership, leadership, governance and family relationships.
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Avoid repeating plans by inertia and reallocate resources using evidence.
Annual Strategic Review
Structure the annual review and turn learning into priorities.
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