Executive summary
A method for turning a deal thesis into a governed assumption register, source log, and research agenda before integration options are appraised.
What is inside
What the research pack covers
The asset takes the signed evidence baseline and the readiness assessment and walks the integration team through extracting every number the business case will use, converting single points into ranges, grading the confidence of each, logging where each came from, writing research questions for the weak ones, and freezing the register at a formal acceptance gate.
- Scope: the assumption base for one acquisition integration business case
- Extracting every load-bearing number from the deal thesis and baselines
- Ranges, confidence grades, and provenance for synergy, cost, and retention assumptions
- Separating observed facts from hypotheses that still need research
- A research agenda with owners, methods, and due dates for the open questions
- A challenge session that stress-tests the register before it is frozen
- The acceptance gate that hands a frozen assumption book to the options appraisal