Due diligence A Complete Guide
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How frequently do you track Due diligence measures? Who will be responsible for deciding whether Due diligence goes ahead or not after the initial investigations? What would be the goal or target for a Due diligence's improvement team? Who are the people involved in developing and implementing Due diligence? What are the business objectives to be achieved with Due diligence?
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department.
Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'
This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Due diligence investments work better.
This Due diligence All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person.
All the tools you need to an in-depth Due diligence Self-Assessment. Featuring 690 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Due diligence improvements can be made.
In using the questions you will be better able to:
- diagnose Due diligence projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
- implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals
- integrate recent advances in Due diligence and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines
Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Due diligence Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Due diligence areas need attention.
Your purchase includes access details to the Due diligence self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria:
- The latest quick edition of the book in PDF
- The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
- The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard, and...
- Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation
…plus an extra, special, resource that helps you with project managing.
INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES
Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.
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Due diligence A Complete Guide - Gerardus Blokdyk
About The Art of Service
The Art of Service, Business Process Architects since 2000, is dedicated to helping stakeholders achieve excellence.
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a stakeholders challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department.
Unless you’re talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions.
Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, ‘What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?’
With The Art of Service’s Standard Requirements Self-Assessments, we empower people who can do just that — whether their title is marketer, entrepreneur, manager, salesperson, consultant, Business Process Manager, executive assistant, IT Manager, CIO etc... —they are the people who rule the future. They are people who watch the process as it happens, and ask the right questions to make the process work better.
Contact us when you need any support with this Self-Assessment and any help with templates, blue-prints and examples of standard documents you might need:
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Acknowledgments
This checklist was developed under the auspices of The Art of Service, chaired by Gerardus Blokdyk.
Representatives from several client companies participated in the preparation of this Self-Assessment.
Our deepest gratitude goes out to Matt Champagne, Ph.D. Surveys Expert, for his invaluable help and advise in structuring the Self Assessment.
In addition, we are thankful for the design and printing services provided.
Included Resources - how to access
Included with your purchase of the book is the Due diligence Self-Assessment Spreadsheet Dashboard which contains all questions and Self-Assessment areas and auto-generates insights, graphs, and project RACI planning - all with examples to get you started right away.
How? Simply send an email to
access@theartofservice.com
with this books’ title in the subject to get the Due diligence Self Assessment Tool right away.
You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria:
•The latest quick edition of the book in PDF
•The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
•The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard, and...
•Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation
•…plus an extra, special, resource that helps you with project managing.
INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES
Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.
Get it now- you will be glad you did - do it now, before you forget.
Send an email to access@theartofservice.com with this books’ title in the subject to get the Due diligence Self Assessment Tool right away.
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Purpose of this Self-Assessment
This Self-Assessment has been developed to improve understanding of the requirements and elements of Due diligence, based on best practices and standards in business process architecture, design and quality management.
It is designed to allow for a rapid Self-Assessment to determine how closely existing management practices and procedures correspond to the elements of the Self-Assessment.
The criteria of requirements and elements of Due diligence have been rephrased in the format of a Self-Assessment questionnaire, with a seven-criterion scoring system, as explained in this document.
In this format, even with limited background knowledge of Due diligence, a manager can quickly review existing operations to determine how they measure up to the standards. This in turn can serve as the starting point of a ‘gap analysis’ to identify management tools or system elements that might usefully be implemented in the organization to help improve overall performance.
How to use the Self-Assessment
On the following pages are a series of questions to identify to what extent your Due diligence initiative is complete in comparison to the requirements set in standards.
To facilitate answering the questions, there is a space in front of each question to enter a score on a scale of ‘1’ to ‘5’.
1 Strongly Disagree
2 Disagree
3 Neutral
4 Agree
5 Strongly Agree
Read the question and rate it with the following in front of mind:
‘In my belief,
the answer to this question is clearly defined’.
There are two ways in which you can choose to interpret this statement;
1.how aware are you that the answer to the question is clearly defined
2.for more in-depth analysis you can choose to gather evidence and confirm the answer to the question. This obviously will take more time, most Self-Assessment users opt for the first way to interpret the question and dig deeper later on based on the outcome of the overall Self-Assessment.
A score of ‘1’ would mean that the answer is not clear at all, where a ‘5’ would mean the answer is crystal clear and defined. Leave emtpy when the question is not applicable or you don’t want to answer it, you can skip it without affecting your score. Write your score in the space provided.
After you have responded to all the appropriate statements in each section, compute your average score for that section, using the formula provided, and round to the nearest tenth. Then transfer to the corresponding spoke in the Due diligence Scorecard on the second next page of the Self-Assessment.
Your completed Due diligence Scorecard will give you a clear presentation of which Due diligence areas need attention.
Due diligence
Scorecard Example
Example of how the finalized Scorecard can look like:
Due diligence
Scorecard
Your Scores:
BEGINNING OF THE
SELF-ASSESSMENT:
Table of Contents
About The Art of Service7
Acknowledgments8
Included Resources - how to access8
Your feedback is invaluable to us10
Purpose of this Self-Assessment10
How to use the Self-Assessment11
Due diligence
Scorecard Example13
Due diligence
Scorecard14
BEGINNING OF THE
SELF-ASSESSMENT:15
CRITERION #1: RECOGNIZE16
CRITERION #2: DEFINE:23
CRITERION #3: MEASURE:34
CRITERION #4: ANALYZE:47
CRITERION #5: IMPROVE:56
CRITERION #6: CONTROL:68
CRITERION #7: SUSTAIN:78
Due diligence and Managing Projects, Criteria for Project Managers:105
1.0 Initiating Process Group: Due diligence106
1.1 Project Charter: Due diligence108
1.2 Stakeholder Register: Due diligence110
1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Due diligence111
2.0 Planning Process Group: Due diligence113
2.1 Project Management Plan: Due diligence115
2.2 Scope Management Plan: Due diligence117
2.3 Requirements Management Plan: Due diligence119
2.4 Requirements Documentation: Due diligence121
2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix: Due diligence123
2.6 Project Scope Statement: Due diligence125
2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log: Due diligence127
2.8 Work Breakdown Structure: Due diligence129
2.9 WBS Dictionary: Due diligence131
2.10 Schedule Management Plan: Due diligence133
2.11 Activity List: Due diligence135
2.12 Activity Attributes: Due diligence137
2.13 Milestone List: Due diligence139
2.14 Network Diagram: Due diligence141
2.15 Activity Resource Requirements: Due diligence143
2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure: Due diligence145
2.17 Activity Duration Estimates: Due diligence147
2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet: Due diligence149
2.19 Project Schedule: Due diligence151
2.20 Cost Management Plan: Due diligence153
2.21 Activity Cost Estimates: