Salamandre acts in the field of strategy and conducts tactical operations: A. Elaborating Growth Strategies - Segmentation of the competitive field in current business or in new areas - Creative thinking on strategic options, analysis of players and power plays, quest for breakthroughs - Operational planning and deployment, close interaction with decision-makers. Examples of Previous Missions (growth strategies) : - Planning business strategy for an identity document company: targeting geographic zones, best prospects for growth, identifying acquisition targets. - Working out business strategy for an SME operating on the simulation market - Elaborating and deploying a growth strategy for an SME in the robotics industry - Developing business in the smart-card industry: identifying potential takeover targets - Choosing and deploying a development strategy in the Internet security field: analysis of competition, influencing the market. B.Conducting Tactical Operations - Lobbying, assistance in submitting bids in key tenders, legitimation of development plans, corporate communication. - Mergers and acquisitions: identifying targets, external due diligence, supervision of acquisition and integration processes - Recruiting high-level specialists: identifying and approaching the right persons. Examples of Previous Missions (tactical operations ) : - Industrial mergers: operational assistance in the merger of two industrial groups, elaborating a strategic plan, conducting negotiations, presenting operation to shareholders and overseeing actual merger. - Due diligence in the airport security field - Approaching European Union on behalf of a major European defence group , lobbying operations. - Anti-fraud policy - European centre of excellence in the fight against organized crime: creating the concept, obtaining moral support, promoting the project among institutional investors and setting it up.