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In our experience, technical due diligence is the single biggest differentiator of deals done well—or poorly. What’s more, technical due-diligence failures can usually be avoided. Almost always, the disappointed acquirer insufficiently vets the technology and discovers too late that it fails to work as advertised. Or the technology does work, but only in constrained environments, and won’t scale. In other cases, crucial parts of the IP turn out not to be owned by the seller. 
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Farid Mheir's insight:
Always interesting reading on digital transformation by Capgemini which has been at the forefront of defining digital transformation. Read this one, then flip through old ones...
Jean-Marie Grange's curator insight,
October 24, 2016 2:02 PM
Very good examples of digital transformation in some industries. The platform strategy developed by Visa could be very successful... if they really open it to developpers.
There is also a list of 15 startups showing good potential at the end of the document...
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IBM has created a 'consensus algorithm' to help with decision-making, as well as smart contracts templates that can be coded in Java or Gola.
Farid Mheir's insight:
More information about blockchain, which now appears to be a revolution in many fields including Finance. With IBM open sourcing code that provides the raw ingredient for any company to create its own solution. This is something we should all become aware of and know as it will most likely be at the heart of many transactions in the future, not just monetary ones.
Olivier Domy's curator insight,
March 24, 2016 7:30 AM
More information about blockchain, which now appears to be a revolution in many fields including Finance. With IBM open sourcing code that provides the raw ingredient for any company to create its own solution. This is something we should all become aware of and know as it will most likely be at the heart of many transactions in the future, not just monetary ones. 
Buzzy Bee's curator insight,
March 31, 2016 4:32 PM
More information about blockchain, which now appears to be a revolution in many fields including Finance. With IBM open sourcing code that provides the raw ingredient for any company to create its own solution. This is something we should all become aware of and know as it will most likely be at the heart of many transactions in the future, not just monetary ones. |
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WHY IT MATTERS: organizations spend considerable time and effort for financial due diligence but relatively little on technology due diligence. Often this is due to lack of knowledge at the executive or even at the CIO level - especially when acquiring a new tech or in a new field. In the past, I've come to develop an approach where I perform a 360 degree technology audit that not only dives into the capabilities of the solution (the software code) but also on other essential elements of success (software engineering best practice and processes, design and requirements, etc.).