Executive summary
A diagnostic that establishes what an acquirer actually knows, and can prove, about both businesses before integration choices are made.
What is inside
What the diagnostic covers
The asset walks an integration team through building the evidence baseline for a signed or imminent deal: confirming the deal thesis, inventorying the operating facts on both sides, grading the quality of every evidence item, tracing each synergy line to the evidence behind it, and compiling the gap register that drives research before options are appraised. It is the first asset in the acquisition integration strategy pathway.
- Scope: the deal thesis and the eight baseline domains an integration depends on
- What counts as evidence for each baseline item, and how quality is graded
- Tracing every promised synergy back to the evidence that supports it
- Separating facts from assumptions before integration options are designed
- Customer, operational, people, systems, and financial baselines on both sides
- A gap register that names what is missing, who owns it, and when it closes
- The baseline gate that releases the team into readiness assessment and design