Completing Due Diligence

Envoy Audio Series | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 8, 2004)
• Original Release Date: November 1, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: BMG Inc.
• ASIN: B0006J4KUG
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,763,927 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The partnership lifecycle

2. Due diligence defined

3. Basis for due diligence: credibility, viability and sustainability

4. Mystery unveiled

5. Due diligence matrix

6. Due diligence five-step process

7. Individuals and organizations involved

8. Due diligence environments and how to control each one

9. Due diligence costs

10. Due diligence risks

11. Fear factors

12. Controllable risks

13. Uncontrollable factors

14. A successful first meeting

15. Proposal and review stages

16. Initial non binding agreement

17. Financial due diligence

18. Requested materials

19. What not to provide

20. Summary

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About the Artist

Since 1996, Business Marketing Group (BMG) has been the recognized leader in outsourced partner development, serving in over forty five industries on four continents and thousands of clients. Today, BMG provides consulting to businesses of all sizes that create, implement, manage and sustain revenue producing partnerships. BMG’s has a nine year track record of catapulting start-ups to market leaders through partner programs and raising the revenue of established firms even higher. Well known clients include IBM, Microsoft, the Government of Britain, Cliff Bars and thousands of small and medium size businesses

Product Description

What is the biggest risk to entrepreneurs and businesses of all sizes when creating a partnership, seeking strategic investment of selling a company? Completing Due Diligence.

The intent behind due diligence is simple---understanding the potential partner’s product and while validating your own product strengths. Unfortunately, most businesses don’t know how much detail to provide at what time and under what circumstances. As a result, too much or too little information is provided at the wrong time, or worse, falls into the wrong hands. The potential loss of market opportunity, competitive differentiation, even business viability is risks no business can afford to take.

Smart business professionals navigate this process armed with the industries best information which is contained in the Envoy Audio Series title Completing Due Diligence. Based on the work of partnering expert Sarah Gerdes, BMG’s founder and CEO, her proven methodology, Completing Due Diligence has been used by BMG clients in over forty five industries on four continents, including 50 firms such as Microsoft.

Completing Due Diligence details the entire process of this critical investigatory practice common to all businesses across all industries. The Envoy audio program also includes:

•A pocket-sized four color presentation booklet highlighting key concepts and points enabling you to bring a ‘cheat sheet’ to all your due diligence meetings
•The Technical Due Diligence Process Matrix identifying what to provide when based on the primary types of partnerships, investments as well as an acquisition scenario when selling (or buying) a company
•How to match the intent with the process during the due diligence exercise
•Tips and techniques to negotiate the best environment for conducting on-site, off-site and remote due diligence
•A bonus section on the Financial Due Diligence