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CDD for Tech Implementation & Support Businesses – Spotting the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

By Phil Craig

With software multiples remaining stuck around record highs [in '22 and '23], many technology investors are pushing increasing dollars into the tech advisor and technology implementation/support partner market (often marketed as "Digital Transformation service providers"). These businesses are subject to similar market growth rates (minimum >10% p.a., many >20% p.a.), but relative to the…
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Understanding Matters…Hospital Medical Technologies: Who Makes the Big Spend Decisions and How Do They Get There?

By Lynt Johnson, MD, MBA

Most new hospital medical technology purchases hit the capital procurement process. Capital purchasing decisions by hospitals can often be a complex maze of processes that impact the timeliness of consideration and final approval and allocation of funds for procurement. Typically, items above a certain monetary threshold meet the institutional requirement to be vetted through a capital purchasing…
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Understanding the Market Share Equation in Diligence and in Value Gen. Exercises

By Jeff Merkle

I’ve been reflecting on Mark's recent article about how to better capitalize on brand equity – and particularly about those situations where you can exploit untapped brand equity. Mark promotes a winning investment formula of investing in cases where “RBE > RMS,” i.e., a company whose Relative Brand Equity is greater than its Relative Market Share. These situations are sadly not…
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Problems to Avoid when Forecasting Product, Service, and Technology Adoption as Part of Diligence

By Mark Stein

An investment thesis often depends on adoption in one form or another (e.g., of a new product, business model, technology, etc.) so we thought it helpful to lay out “best and worst” practices for assessing adoption potential.

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