Telling the difference between superior and poor businesses, this book is a mixture of business strategy, marketing analysis and market research, and is about understanding how businesses and markets work, what is important for profits and growth, and deals with the essentials of strategic analysis. It is for those who formulate company strategy.

Commercial Due Diligence is written by someone with over 25 years' experience of practical strategic analysis who nonetheless has a strong academic grounding. Here is a book that deals with the essentials of strategic analysis with the practitioner's eye. If you are in the business of formulating company strategy, and you want to see how to apply the theories and understand in practical terms what works, when, and what can go wrong, this is the book for you.