Business Reputation Risk & Mitigation
A reality, whether its influenced by this recession or not, is that large scale layoffs, terminations, and the sheer unavailability of gainful employment, irrespective of severance package, advance notice, unemployment benefits, or opportunity for ‘call back’ will produce disgruntled employees with an elevated sense of (company, employer) disloyalty.
Business Reputation Risk & Mitigation
Selecting the best individual or firm to conduct intangible asset due diligence is critical to transaction success!
Business Reputation Risk & Mitigation
It’s important to recognize that merely because a deal or transaction has progressed to the due diligence stage, there is absolutely no guarantee the projected values, synergies, and competitive advantages the targeted intangible assets are projected to bring will sustain those projections.
Business Reputation Risk & Mitigation
Intangible asset due diligence must be much more than a cursory or confirmatory review of the assets’ presence, absence, or positioning!
Business Reputation Risk & Mitigation
I have yet to encounter a company management team that does not want to survive this extended recession, but I have encountered numerous management teams who express little or no interest in their intangible assets which they rely for value and revenue.
Business Reputation Risk & Mitigation
The term ‘systemic risk’ has become the presumably focus-grouped explanation for the calamities of the financial services sector beginning in early Fall, 2008 has now come to be embedded in business lexicon.