What other pre-diligence work can be done?

What other pre-diligence work can be done?

Following up on yesterday’s email, I described an exercise that can be done to obtain a baseline of your organization.

While it is most useful at the earliest stages for establishing a baseline, the questions being asked are key for any potential suitor as well. Once you’ve started narrowing your scope, how do you look for this without tipping your hand?

The one thing that most would do is resort to googling around the internet looking for things the company may have been involved with, or logos from vendors that they have used. While that can work for a cursory glance, there is the potential of it leaking interest when not done properly. Additionally, it doesn’t give you an idea of whether or not a certain technology is used by the entire company, or just one small part that you aren’t even considering.

On the other hand, finding presentations or talks from employees at conferences can clue you in to certain things. What they are testing out and how they solve challenges checking boxes on some of the technology and cultural aspects. Additionally, it gives you an idea of their technical direction the potential target is going.

What can you do in the meantime?

PS: Thank you for bearing with me for the first couple of weeks while I build this out. I am planning to get an archives site up to act as a more permanent repository, but it is still a work in progress. Stay tuned!