Technology regularly transforms every sector of the economy, and most functions within. The pervasiveness of cloud based services, the adoption of machine learning, generative and predictive AI, the scale-changing potential of quantum computing and ever-higher-speed mobile networks, perpetual threats to cybersecurity, … all of the above disrupt processes, competitive advantages, costs, and speed of execution. CMI helps you identify accelerators and threats so you can adopt the right technology, the right way, at the right time.
CMI teams thrive on building in-depth knowledge of technological advancements to better serve their clients. We join forces with corporate leadership and investors to identify strategic challenges and opportunities such disruptions will likely trigger across their audiences, organizations, partner ecosystems, competitors, business models and processes.
- Deal generation
We identify, qualify and prioritize acquisition targets, then build a pipeline of potential investments. - Strategic due diligence
We analyze market fundamentals, underlying business drivers, associated risks, as well as the target’s competitive landscape, positioning, and differentiating factors. We validate the robustness of the business plan and identify value creation levers. - Value creation for portfolio companies
We provide our clients with strategic support after equity investments have been made, to diversify, reposition, or deploy impactful sales & marketing strategies. Sectoral expertise and capabilities we bring let us provide personalized support to maximize the potential of portfolio companies. - Exit strategy preparation
We develop genuine, grounded, yet compelling equity stories. We also conduct vendor due diligence. - Strategic thinking support
We support our clients throughout their diversification and operational strategies. We work to surface opportunities that optimize innovation and profitable growth potential. We help you strengthen network and communications security to protect data and infrastructure against cyber threats. We help you deploy appropriate policies which ensure privacy and conform with regulations that govern the protection of personal information.
In a world where technology evolves at breakneck speed, tech players and entities which capitalize on innovation must constantly reevaluate their risk/reward strategies.
Technological innovation, from AI to blockchain, to robotics, speeds up change faster than ever observed before, as it relates to competitive strategies, disintermediation risks, across the competitive landscape. It forces companies to regularly question their R&D priorities, business models, paths to growth and operational strategies. Public sector institutions CMI also offers strong expertise in may capitalize on the above to maintain or increase service quality within constrained budgets.
Post-Covid inflation amplified by geopolitical instability has forced most tech players to rediscover the virtue of profitable growth as funding became scarcer and more expensive. Demonstrating that path as well as business model resilience has become business critical. Topline growth is not enough.
Optimism should prevail as nothing will stop the wave of disruptions coming our way, but it comes with a fair share of challenges that CMI helps its clients anticipate, address or leverage:
Cybersecurity and privacy
Investments must be made in advanced solutions to protect against ever-more-sophisticated cyber attacks yet comply with strict regulations such as GDPR. Cybersecurity training and skilling is every manager’s issue in every department, private and public sectors combined. Finding the right talents with up-to-date expertise is vital; so is the adoption of behavioral analytics and machine learning to detect insider threats as well.
Applied AI, cloud, and infrastructure
The following initiatives require thorough strategic planning and execution CMI provides expertise on:
automating operations through machine-learning-trained models ; improving decisions by solving classification, prediction, and control problems ; governance and compliance solutions to ensure transparency within AI and cloud based services ; developing resilience and disaster recovery strategies to ensure service availability and continuity in a complex cloud environment.
Globalization and connectivity
There is rarely been a moment where content creation and communication technologies worked as synchronously as they do, fostering audience reach and engagement, growth and productivity through wireless networks, 5G/6G cellular networks, Wi-Fi 6 and 7 (Extremely High Throughput), and low-Earth orbit satellites when the above are limited. CMI looks forward to guiding you accordingly.
Digital Transformation Focus:
The acceleration of technological innovations listed above (infrastructure, devices and services) command new levels of agility. CMI helps its clients transform their processes and organization set-ups accordingly to optimize the deployment of their digital strategies and foster their adoption both internally and externally.