Qualified job candidates can be hard to find, especially in fields with specialized educational or technical demands. When you’ve got a massive pile of resumes in front of you, it can be tough to sift through them to find the right people. That’s why we’ve put together a few actionable resume-screening tips to help you […]
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Completing a successful merger is no easy feat, not least because of the challenge of integrating company cultures. No matter which side of the merger you’re on, you’ll probably be working with new people, in new departments with new leadership. You may also have to get used to new brand identities, disrupted workflows, new software […]
The term due diligence broadly refers to all the research done to ensure a deal is legitimate, but there can be many different types of due diligence for different kinds of businesses. Types of Due Diligence Legal Financial Merger and Acquisition Customer Human Resources Environmental Taxes Commercial Legal One of the most important and most […]
Market intelligence is the extroverted partner to business intelligence. Internal indicators about the health of a company’s operations comprise the realm of business intelligence. This may focus on things like aggregate numbers of consumers, active products and product lines, shipment quantities, daily, monthly or yearly sales volumes, supply chains and other business transactions. On the […]
Mergers and Acquisitions are inherently risky business transactions. An estimated 83% of MAs fail to provide shareholder value. Although there are many reasons for this high failure rate, here are a few common causes that thorough due diligence process, thoughtful strategy and responsive can planning address. Inadequate Due Diligence This one might seem obvious, but […]
Companies often conduct customer surveys and gather data about competitors to better understand how they are performing and how they can improve. This market research data is useful for evaluating performance and making adjustments aimed at improvement. Market research alone is a contemporaneous snapshot of performance that informs a reactive response to current conditions. Utilizing […]
In 1983, Edward Tufte published his groundbreaking book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information In it, he outlines the importance of visually presenting data and statistics in a way that is easy to understand—beautiful even. His work is widely regarded as foundational to informational design and his methodologies are employed in political science, data analysis […]
With all the detailed information on customers, competitors and business operations that’s being gathered today, companies look to analytics to provide insights into this data. This demand for efficient ways to provide understandable and actionable information has contributed to the development of new software platforms that offer “embedded analytics” to their users. These offerings claim […]
Employee misconduct should never be treated lightly. Yet, many companies do a poor job of both handling employee misconduct and preventing it. This is largely because both employers and employees do not understand or are unaware of the different types of employee misconduct. Theft and fraud Theft and fraud are some of the most severe […]
Intelex investigators follow paper, electronic trails By Don Dzikowski, Pg. 1 Wary investors have discovered a secret in Intelex Ltd. of Greenwich, a business intelligence and research that performs “due diligence” background checks on officers and companies entering into public or private offerings. According to Intelex president Matthew J. Cherry, investigations are conducted on behalf […]
By Ivan H. Golden, Pg. 1 Greenwich High School will have a larger, more visible security force this year. The school hired one new security guard this summer, bringing the total to seven, and administrators hope to hire two more guards soon, Assistant Headmaster Alan Capasso said yesterday. The school also bought uniforms for the […]
Does That Car Fly? GPs Turning to Specialists to Help Substantiate a Company’s Worth By Lauren Wiley, Pg. 56 A couple of years ago, a group of angel investors hired Intelex, Ltd., a Greenwich , Conn. based due diligence firm, to investigate a claim by an inventor that he ad developed a flying car. Intelex […]