Engineering Services
Reframing tech as a growth engine in an Engineering Services firm
Tech DD revealed a stable, low-cost estate masking a deeper problem: leadership saw technology as a cost centre. We reframed it as the engine of the investment thesis.
- Client
- Multi-million pound professional services firm
- Service
- Tech Due Diligence + Value Creation
- Stage
- Pre & Post-deal
01
The challenge
- —Technology run as a cost centre, not a growth enabler
- —Leadership had no strategic vision for technology
- —Investments focused on maintenance, not innovation
- —No scalable digital strategy to unlock new revenue
02
Our approach
01
Strategic benchmarking
Showed leadership how competitors used technology to scale faster, expand margin and differentiate — making the upside tangible.
02
Executive coaching & change
Coached leadership and the tech team out of legacy thinking and into alignment with the investor thesis.
03
Fractional CIO
Embedded an interim CIO to hold the gap and drive transformation while permanent leadership was built.
04
Investment-aligned roadmap
A staged roadmap linking each technology investment to EBITDA growth, capital allocation and execution priorities.
03
Outcomes
- ✓Scalable tech foundation for expansion and automation
- ✓Leadership aligned around technology as a value driver
- ✓Clear investment case linking spend to EBITDA
- ✓Risk reframed as the deal's biggest upside
Takeaway
"A clean tech estate is not the same as an investable one. The job of Tech DD is to find the value, not just the risk."
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