CSMG provides strategic advisory services ranging from growth and business transformation to ecosystem and business model evolution. Our peerless industry depth and experience, signature strategy and quantitative methodologies enable our clients to make sound business decisions in a complex and ever-changing market.
Investment in the communications, technology and media industries requires a step-by-step assessment of economic forces driving change and their impact on the company’s business plan, financial performance, and prospects for continued growth.
Investment Sector Expertise
Investors must carefully assess the market dynamics, competitive environment, technology enablers/risks, operational capabilities and regulatory environment when considering an investment in the communications, technology or media industries.
We can help investors evaluate the long-term attractiveness of industry sub-sectors or target companies within the communications, technology and media industries. We work with closely with the financial community to address key questions important to their investment decision:
- How large is the market opportunity?
- What are the key drivers of price and volume growth?
- How robust is the company’s product set?
- How attractive is the customer base? What are key risks?
- What is their positioning against competitors and new entrants?
- What future technology shifts could be disruptive?
- How robust are its operational/technology capabilities?
- What will be the impact of future regulatory changes?
- What are the key drivers of future OpEx and CapEx?
- What key assumptions should be revised in the business case?
Client Successes
Over the past 25 years, we have helped investors conduct business and operational due diligence on a wide variety of target companies and industry sub-sectors. For example:
- Service Providers: MNOs, MVNOs, ILECs, CLECs, metro-fiber networks
- Technology Players: network equipment providers, data centers, BSS/OSS, mobile top-up intermediaries



