The quality of a management team is the single most important non-financial factor in the success of any acquisition, investment, or significant commercial relationship. Financial models can be rebuilt, operations can be restructured, and markets can recover. A management team that lacks integrity — that has misrepresented its track record,...
Competitor Intelligence Investigations
Competitive intelligence is one of the most consistently misunderstood disciplines in corporate investigations. It is sometimes conflated with industrial espionage — the unlawful acquisition of a competitor’s confidential information — and sometimes dismissed as a sophisticated label for internet searching. Neither characterisation is accurate. Legitimate competitive intelligence is a structured,...