Quick Scan

When having a look at the outcome of strategic changes such as structural changes, mergers and acquisition exercises, ... we can easily come to the conclusion that the success rate is not spectacular, quite the contrary! On a strategic level everything goes fine, the financial due diligence did not lead to major objections, however the results are disappointing. How come?
According to prof. Vanmaele these strategic changes are mainly based on the exercise of a financial due diligence, however this analysis does not cover essential information about the operational business and processes. MÖBIUS helps its customers with getting insight in this crucial information, in order to support the decision maker with a more precise diagnosis.

The basis of MÖBIUS' operational due diligence methodology is quite similar to financial auditing but has following specificities:

• Several domains are looked at: IT, logistics, sales, finance, production, company culture, operational processes (just-in-time, e-commerce, corporate governance, intern management), etc.
• MÖBIUS domain experts go through a questionnaire with the respective domain managers
• An innovative score model complements the qualitative operational audit with quantitatively sound advice

MÖBIUS' aim is to:

• Screen the gaps between the organisation and new strategy
• Analyse gaps in terms of processes and IT support
• To express the necessary efforts in 'cost' in order to cover these gaps
• Enable benchmarking (internal, cross-company, historical, sector-bound)

Used tooling:

• Industry sector: ATLAS/M
• Service sector: DELTA/M
• IT Strategy: SCAN IT

Prof. dr. ir. Vanmaele believes that several sectors are eligible for custom made operational due diligence tools. Potential candidates could be institutions such as GOM, Inspection, investment companies, etc.