Discipline
Mergers, separation and diligence
Buying, selling or separating without technology being what breaks the transaction.
4 services in this discipline
This is yours if
Three signs that this is yours.
- You have a separation date written into the purchase agreement.
- You have a signed letter of intent and an exclusivity clock running.
- You have a large renewal in the next six months.
Use this today, without hiring anyone
Technology and operations due diligence
What is not in the transaction data room and decides the cost of day one. Ask for it this week: if the seller is slow or does not have it, that is already a finding.
- The inventory of what shuts off at closing. Which services the selling parent provides today: email, network, security, payroll, support. And what it costs to replace each one.
- The change of control clauses. Which contracts get renegotiated or break simply because the owner changes. That is usually where the money is.
- The three person map. Who leaves on announcement day and what process shuts off with that person. It is in no document: you ask.
- The list of versions out of support. With the end of support date next to each one. It is the deferred cost nobody puts on the negotiating table.
- What was self built with no documentation. What runs today that was made by someone who is gone, and what process depends on it.
It comes from Technology and operations due diligence. Every service in this discipline brings its own.
The 4 services in this discipline
How do you separate systems against a date that cannot move?
We closed the acquisition and systems have to be separated without breaking service.
Operational separation and integration against a date imposed by contract, led by someone who has already separated the technology of a divested bank.
See the situationTechnology and operations due diligenceWhat are you actually buying in technology, before you sign?
The financial diligence is done. Nobody looked at whether the operation survives the day after.
Before you sign: what you are actually buying in technology, what shuts off when three people leave and what day one costs.
See the situationVendor contract and performance auditAre they delivering what they promised you in the contract?
The vendor's dashboard shows green and the operation keeps going down.
What they promised you, what they delivered, which clauses you can actually enforce and what you have to renegotiate with.
See the situationEnterprise readinessWhy is your large customer not signing?
We have been two months inside the customer's questionnaire and every answer opens three more.
Why your large customer is not signing, what evidence is missing and in what order to close it.
See the situationThe other disciplines
AI strategy
12AI governance and compliance
9Automation and agents
8Data and analytics
5Cybersecurity and resilience
4Critical operations and crisis
5Cost of AI and software
5Infrastructure and platform
5Or see it by the cycle: Vanguard, Forge and Taskforce. Or by the question you arrive with, in the seven questions. And if you already know the name, there is the full list.
What is the decision you have in front of you this week?