Posts filed under: M&A

Transformational buy & build platforms: a new growth avenue for scale-ups

Transformational buy & build strategies may provide you with a 10x value creation opportunity that comes with different growth path ... Read More

Transformational M&A – a new playbook 

In 2022, I switched from international technology M&A advisory to working with platform companies as an investor and board advisor. Taking stock of 15 years as an M&A partner, I... Read More

Ecosystem Operating Models: how to participate, create and capture value in new ecosystems?

New technologies and business models require businesses to innovate their products and services faster than ever. Organisations are facing mounting pressures to adopt digitisation, robotisation, artificial intelligence and flexible consumption models. Companies that fail to... Read More

The Value Stack: a model to assess the value creation potential of technology companies

Technology companies are disrupting industries, one after another. Yet, most traditional companies have no clue about the way technology companies operate and create value. As traditional strategy and investment analysis... Read More

Ecosystems – driving the core or developing the edge?

For decades governments and business leaders are trying to understand the venturing ecosystem in Silicon Valley. With over 30,000 start-ups, a world leading venture capital industry and continuously emerging high growth technology companies, the Bay Area is the... Read More

Tech M&A in Europe: buy & build

On 28 November 2013, Deloitte announced the EMEA Deloitte Technology Fast500 winners in London. The technology industry is renowned for its innovation and disruptive business models. Over the past years highly succesful tech exits and... Read More