{"id":62,"date":"2025-10-14T15:37:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2026-06-12T10:56:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:56:56","slug":"cdd-best-practices","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/cdd-best-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurzdarstellung bew\u00e4hrter Verfahren"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-theme-blocks-section theme-block has-background is-style-full-width\"><div class=\"block-label\">guidance for Investors<\/div><div class=\"block-content\">\n<p class=\"appear-on-scroll wp-block-paragraph\">Our Best Practice Briefs are the standing record of how we think about, and encourage others to run, commercial diligence: the questions that recur across our work, the failure modes we see repeated, and the analytical frames that hold up across sectors and cycles. We publish these because the discipline is better when we are able to align with our clients and more of the field practices it well. Drawn from more than twenty years of work, the Briefs are written to be used, on your own deals, by your own teams, not just read.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"appear-on-scroll wp-block-paragraph\">The Briefs are not a side project. They are where our thinking is worked out and written down, and the same thinking runs through every engagement we take, every market we cover, and every conversation we have with an investor. When a question recurs across deals, it becomes a Brief; when a Brief proves out in the field, it sharpens the next engagement. The library is the record of that loop, and the reason our work is consistent from one deal to the next.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"appear-on-scroll wp-block-paragraph\">If you would like to share your thoughts on our ideas, please don&#8217;t hesitate to <a href=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/contact\/\" type=\"page\" id=\"48\">reach out to us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-theme-blocks-section theme-block has-background is-style-full-width has-blue-color is-style-full-content-width has-transparent-background wp-elements-a8579ed91eceec65cf441bce2dcad4ff\"id=\"posts\"><div class=\"block-label\">View all Best Practices By<\/div><div class=\"block-content\">\n<div  class=\"theme-block wp-block-theme-blocks-post-filters is-style-page-width has-filters admin\">\n<div id=\"posts\"><\/div>\n<form class=\"block-filters has-filters\" method=\"get\" action=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/wp-json\/theme\/v1\/archive\" id=\"posts-filter\" data-target-container=\"#query-posts0\" 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>Wertversprechen<\/option>\n                                    <\/select>\n            <\/div>\n                \n        <div class=\"search\">\n            <input type=\"text\" name=\"s\" placeholder=\"Suchen\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"submit\" aria-label=\"Suche durchf\u00fchren\"><span class=\"icon search\"><\/span><\/button>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"message\">\n        <span role=\"status\">\n            <span class=\"found_posts\">48<\/span> \n            <span class=\"text\">insight found<\/span>\n            | \n        <\/span>\n        <button type=\"reset\">Zur\u00fccksetzen<\/button>\n        \n    <\/div>\n    \n\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"de\"\/><\/form>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<h3  class=\"appear-on-scroll wp-block-heading is-style-default has-white-color has-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-4bfcbba58dfcb61323d486e24fd6a840\"  style=\"text-transform:uppercase\"><span class=\"text\">Lessons from Diligence Best Practices<\/span><\/h3>\n\n<div  class=\"theme-block wp-block-theme-blocks-posts is-style-page-width has-blue-color has-text-color is-style-blue-text has-load-more admin hide-thumbnail\"><div class=\"query-posts insight three-across per-page-6\" id=\"query-posts0\"><article tabindex=\"-1\" class=\"excerpt clickable appear-on-scroll has-blue-color has-text-color is-style-blue-text no-thumbnail post-683 insight type-insight status-publish hentry topic-best-practices topic-bundling topic-buying-power topic-competition topic-competitive-position topic-customer-behavior topic-customer-research topic-drivers-of-choice topic-investigative-research topic-price topic-price-sensitivity topic-value-generation insight-category-profit-pricing author-jeff-merkle\" id=\"p683\" data-id=\"683\" data-href=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/insights\/taking-price-seriously-in-commercial-due-diligence-cdd-mandates\/\" style=\"\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/insights\/taking-price-seriously-in-commercial-due-diligence-cdd-mandates\/\" class=\"thumbnail\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"presentation\"><\/a>    <div class=\"meta\">\n        <span class=\"topic\"> <a href=\"\/de\/cdd-best-practices\/?by-topic=best-practices#posts\" rel=\"tag\">Bew\u00e4hrte Verfahren<\/a> | <a href=\"\/de\/cdd-best-practices\/?by-topic=bundling#posts\" rel=\"tag\">Bundling<\/a> | <a href=\"\/de\/cdd-best-practices\/?by-topic=buying-power#posts\" rel=\"tag\">Buying Power<\/a> | <a href=\"\/de\/cdd-best-practices\/?by-topic=competition#posts\" rel=\"tag\">Competition<\/a> | <a href=\"\/de\/cdd-best-practices\/?by-topic=competitive-position#posts\" rel=\"tag\">Wettbewerbsf\u00e4hige Position<\/a> | <a href=\"\/de\/cdd-best-practices\/?by-topic=customer-behavior#posts\" rel=\"tag\">Customer Behavior<\/a> | <a href=\"\/de\/cdd-best-practices\/?by-topic=customer-research#posts\" rel=\"tag\">Customer Research<\/a> | <a href=\"\/de\/cdd-best-practices\/?by-topic=drivers-of-choice#posts\" rel=\"tag\">Drivers of Choice<\/a> | <a href=\"\/de\/cdd-best-practices\/?by-topic=investigative-research#posts\" rel=\"tag\">Investigative Research<\/a> | <a href=\"\/de\/cdd-best-practices\/?by-topic=price#posts\" rel=\"tag\">Preis<\/a> | <a href=\"\/de\/cdd-best-practices\/?by-topic=price-sensitivity#posts\" rel=\"tag\">Preissensitivit\u00e4t<\/a> | <a href=\"\/de\/cdd-best-practices\/?by-topic=value-generation#posts\" rel=\"tag\">Wertsch\u00f6pfung<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"date\">12\/31\/2024<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n    \n<h3 class=\"title\" id=\"p683-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/insights\/taking-price-seriously-in-commercial-due-diligence-cdd-mandates\/\" class=\"text\">041: Taking Price Seriously in Commercial Due Diligence (CDD) Mandates<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\"><p>Using pricing as a lever is massively powerful, yet pricing is an often overlooked and underappreciated part of diligence. Several years back, one of the large corporate finance consultancies did &hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button cta is-style-outline\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/insights\/taking-price-seriously-in-commercial-due-diligence-cdd-mandates\/\" class=\"wp-block-button__link\">Mehr lesen<span class=\"icon arrow right\"><i><\/i><\/span><\/a>\n<\/div>    \n\n\n<\/article><article tabindex=\"-1\" class=\"excerpt clickable appear-on-scroll has-blue-color has-text-color is-style-blue-text no-thumbnail post-1504 insight type-insight status-publish hentry topic-competitive-position topic-moats insight-category-competitive-position author-mark-stein\" id=\"p1504\" data-id=\"1504\" data-href=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/insights\/044-part-4-of-4-moat-dynamics-and-investment-decisions\/\" style=\"\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/insights\/044-part-4-of-4-moat-dynamics-and-investment-decisions\/\" class=\"thumbnail\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"presentation\"><\/a>    <div class=\"meta\">\n        <span class=\"topic\"> <a href=\"\/de\/cdd-best-practices\/?by-topic=competitive-position#posts\" rel=\"tag\">Wettbewerbsf\u00e4hige Position<\/a> | <a href=\"\/de\/cdd-best-practices\/?by-topic=moats#posts\" rel=\"tag\">Gr\u00e4ben<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"date\">04\/09\/2026<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n    \n<h3 class=\"title\" id=\"p1504-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/insights\/044-part-4-of-4-moat-dynamics-and-investment-decisions\/\" class=\"text\">044, TEIL 4 VON 4: Burggrabendynamik und Investitionsentscheidungen<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\"><p>When Moats Migrate: Recognizing New Sources of Advantage The strongest Commercial Due Diligence doesn&#8217;t just test whether old moats persist\u2014it identifies&nbsp;where new moats are forming. Sometimes the original moat weakens, &hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button cta is-style-outline\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/insights\/044-part-4-of-4-moat-dynamics-and-investment-decisions\/\" class=\"wp-block-button__link\">Mehr lesen<span class=\"icon arrow right\"><i><\/i><\/span><\/a>\n<\/div>    \n\n\n<\/article><article tabindex=\"-1\" class=\"excerpt clickable appear-on-scroll has-blue-color has-text-color is-style-blue-text no-thumbnail post-1502 insight type-insight status-publish hentry topic-competitive-position topic-moats insight-category-competitive-position author-mark-stein\" id=\"p1502\" data-id=\"1502\" data-href=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/insights\/044-part-3-of-4-measuring-moat-strength-a-practitioners-guide\/\" style=\"\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/insights\/044-part-3-of-4-measuring-moat-strength-a-practitioners-guide\/\" class=\"thumbnail\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"presentation\"><\/a>    <div class=\"meta\">\n        <span class=\"topic\"> <a href=\"\/de\/cdd-best-practices\/?by-topic=competitive-position#posts\" rel=\"tag\">Wettbewerbsf\u00e4hige Position<\/a> | <a href=\"\/de\/cdd-best-practices\/?by-topic=moats#posts\" rel=\"tag\">Gr\u00e4ben<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"date\">04\/09\/2026<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n    \n<h3 class=\"title\" id=\"p1502-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/insights\/044-part-3-of-4-measuring-moat-strength-a-practitioners-guide\/\" class=\"text\">044, TEIL 3 VON 4: Messung der Burggrabenst\u00e4rke \u2013 ein Leitfaden f\u00fcr die Praxis<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\"><p>Dieser Abschnitt bietet eine systematische Methodik zur Quantifizierung der Grabenst\u00e4rke in allen sieben Tests. Die Aussagekraft der VoC-Fragen h\u00e4ngt ma\u00dfgeblich vom verwendeten Messrahmen f\u00fcr die Antworten ab. \u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button cta is-style-outline\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/insights\/044-part-3-of-4-measuring-moat-strength-a-practitioners-guide\/\" class=\"wp-block-button__link\">Mehr lesen<span class=\"icon arrow right\"><i><\/i><\/span><\/a>\n<\/div>    \n\n\n<\/article><article tabindex=\"-1\" class=\"excerpt clickable appear-on-scroll has-blue-color has-text-color is-style-blue-text no-thumbnail post-1500 insight type-insight status-publish hentry topic-competitive-position topic-moats insight-category-competitive-position author-mark-stein\" id=\"p1500\" data-id=\"1500\" data-href=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/insights\/044-part-2-of-4-matters-graphs-seven-moat-commercial-diligence-diagnostic-voice-of-customer-methodologies\/\" style=\"\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/insights\/044-part-2-of-4-matters-graphs-seven-moat-commercial-diligence-diagnostic-voice-of-customer-methodologies\/\" class=\"thumbnail\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"presentation\"><\/a>    <div class=\"meta\">\n        <span class=\"topic\"> <a href=\"\/de\/cdd-best-practices\/?by-topic=competitive-position#posts\" rel=\"tag\">Wettbewerbsf\u00e4hige Position<\/a> | <a href=\"\/de\/cdd-best-practices\/?by-topic=moats#posts\" rel=\"tag\">Gr\u00e4ben<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"date\">04\/09\/2026<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n    \n<h3 class=\"title\" id=\"p1500-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/insights\/044-part-2-of-4-matters-graphs-seven-moat-commercial-diligence-diagnostic-voice-of-customer-methodologies\/\" class=\"text\">044, TEIL 2 VON 4: Matters Graphs Sieben-Burggraben-Diagnostik f\u00fcr die Gesch\u00e4ftspr\u00fcfung \u2013 Methoden zur Kundenstimme<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\"><p>Eine gr\u00fcndliche Due-Diligence-Pr\u00fcfung beschr\u00e4nkt sich nicht darauf, defensive Merkmale zu erfassen. Sie untersucht, ob diese Merkmale weiterhin einen kumulativen Wettbewerbsvorteil generieren \u2013 oder ob sie statisch geworden sind, an Bedeutung verlieren oder austauschbar sind. Im Rahmen dieser Diagnose wird die Kundenmeinung (Voice of Customer, VoC) ber\u00fccksichtigt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button cta is-style-outline\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/insights\/044-part-2-of-4-matters-graphs-seven-moat-commercial-diligence-diagnostic-voice-of-customer-methodologies\/\" class=\"wp-block-button__link\">Mehr lesen<span class=\"icon arrow right\"><i><\/i><\/span><\/a>\n<\/div>    \n\n\n<\/article><article tabindex=\"-1\" class=\"excerpt clickable appear-on-scroll has-blue-color has-text-color is-style-blue-text no-thumbnail post-1496 insight type-insight status-publish hentry topic-competitive-position topic-moats insight-category-competitive-position author-mark-stein\" id=\"p1496\" data-id=\"1496\" data-href=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/insights\/044-part-1-of-4-the-returns-case-and-framework-for-moat-analysis-in-commercial-due-diligence\/\" style=\"\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/insights\/044-part-1-of-4-the-returns-case-and-framework-for-moat-analysis-in-commercial-due-diligence\/\" class=\"thumbnail\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"presentation\"><\/a>    <div class=\"meta\">\n        <span class=\"topic\"> <a href=\"\/de\/cdd-best-practices\/?by-topic=competitive-position#posts\" rel=\"tag\">Wettbewerbsf\u00e4hige Position<\/a> | <a href=\"\/de\/cdd-best-practices\/?by-topic=moats#posts\" rel=\"tag\">Gr\u00e4ben<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"date\">04\/09\/2026<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n    \n<h3 class=\"title\" id=\"p1496-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/insights\/044-part-1-of-4-the-returns-case-and-framework-for-moat-analysis-in-commercial-due-diligence\/\" class=\"text\">044, Teil 1 von 4: Der Returns-Fall und der Rahmen f\u00fcr die Moat-Analyse in der kommerziellen Due Diligence<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\"><p>Warum Burggr\u00e4ben wichtig sind: Die wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse zu Investitionsrenditen. Die quantitativen Beweise: Wirtschaftliche Burggr\u00e4ben erzielen au\u00dfergew\u00f6hnliche Renditen. Studien belegen durchweg, dass Unternehmen mit nachhaltigen Wettbewerbsvorteilen deutlich h\u00f6here Renditen erwirtschaften: Breiter Burggraben \u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button cta is-style-outline\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/insights\/044-part-1-of-4-the-returns-case-and-framework-for-moat-analysis-in-commercial-due-diligence\/\" class=\"wp-block-button__link\">Mehr lesen<span class=\"icon arrow right\"><i><\/i><\/span><\/a>\n<\/div>    \n\n\n<\/article><article tabindex=\"-1\" class=\"excerpt clickable appear-on-scroll has-blue-color has-text-color is-style-blue-text no-thumbnail post-1494 insight type-insight status-publish hentry topic-competitive-position topic-moats insight-category-competitive-position author-mark-stein\" id=\"p1494\" data-id=\"1494\" data-href=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/insights\/044-economic-moat-analysis-in-commercial-diligence-predicts-investment-performance\/\" style=\"\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/insights\/044-economic-moat-analysis-in-commercial-diligence-predicts-investment-performance\/\" class=\"thumbnail\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"presentation\"><\/a>    <div class=\"meta\">\n        <span class=\"topic\"> <a href=\"\/de\/cdd-best-practices\/?by-topic=competitive-position#posts\" rel=\"tag\">Wettbewerbsf\u00e4hige Position<\/a> | <a href=\"\/de\/cdd-best-practices\/?by-topic=moats#posts\" rel=\"tag\">Gr\u00e4ben<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"date\">04\/09\/2026<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n    \n<h3 class=\"title\" id=\"p1494-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mattersgraph.com\/de\/insights\/044-economic-moat-analysis-in-commercial-diligence-predicts-investment-performance\/\" class=\"text\">044: Die Analyse des wirtschaftlichen Burggrabens im Rahmen der Due Diligence prognostiziert die Investitionsperformance<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"content\"><p>Behauptungen \u00fcber Wettbewerbsvorteile in Investitionsmemoranden und 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