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The Ultimate Due Diligence Guide

Alpha Sense BI

Consequently, the deals coming through your doors require extra scrutiny, and your criteria for due diligence needs to shift to take into account market changes. However, conducting poor due diligence can lead to costly mistakes. However, some businesses are sold because of poor business practices or operating at a loss.

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Due Diligence During Economic Downturn

Alpha Sense BI

In periods of high risk, renewed attention is brought to due diligence and what should concern your decision-making. That means a company needs to have dry powder to absorb any losses and maintain a cushion because, without this, even the strongest-performing company becomes vulnerable. Is Cash Flow Stable?

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. July 2011: Apotheker and Lynch reach a deal to sell Autonomy to HP, and HP begins its due-diligence examination of Autonomy’s finances. November 2012: HP takes an $8.8

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4 perils of being an IT pioneer

CIO

Here are four major setbacks that business and IT leaders could encounter if they rush to adopt a new technology without due diligence. Lack of support Finding resources who are skilled with a new technology can be a challenge. For instance, there is still a significant skill shortage in relatively new technologies such as AI.

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Sharing Responsibility for Data Security in the Cloud

CIO

Therefore, it’s up to CIOs to do due diligence about what sort of security controls are in place and to ensure data is well protected in an [as-a-service] operating model. Specifically, the study attributed an average $4 million loss to business disruption, with another $5.9 million associated with information losses.

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Understanding the security shared responsibility model in an as-a-service world

CIO

Therefore, it’s up to CIOs to do due diligence about what sort of security controls are in place and to ensure data is well protected in an [as-a-service] operating model. Specifically, the study attributed an average $4 million loss to business disruption, with another $5.9 million associated with information losses.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO

Data due diligence Generative AI especially has particular implications for data security, Mann says. How do you achieve data loss prevention when you’re telling your AI to go suck up all this data and reuse it?”

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