Inevitable buyer’s questions: what type of market will this business grow into (growth rate, competitiveness...)?  What is its strategy to exploit this market (differentiation or cost leadership...)?  What will I be able to do (develop or optimise it, what is its potential...)?
The strategic diagnosis anticipates these fundamental questions from buyers.  It helps the seller to position, or even reposition their business to match buyers’ profiles, which have been previously defined with our help.

When the business has a strategy and adequate financial means, it rests with the future buyer to assure that it has high performing operational capacity.  They will do a critical analysis of different operational aspects according to the type of target business.  For example, the critical point will be the expertise of the team for a tertiary business; the factory for an industrial business; logistics for a distribution company, etc...
In addition, small businesses have recurrent weaknesses such as the director's intuitu personae.  It could take a year or more to put a second in command or supervisors in place.

This consists of verifying that legally nothing poses an obstacle to the future sale from an internal (shareholder agreement, a consent clause...) or external (an intuitu personae license contract) point of view.  It is equally necessary to identify potential or known legal action against the company as well as environmental and social risks.