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The Integration Risk That Isn't on the Balance Sheet
The four lightweight artifacts that tell you, in diligence, whether a target will be painful to absorb — each with the exact question that surfaces it, and the research behind it.
What's inside
- ▸The four signals every acquirer should check: application inventory, capability model, knowledge management, and light enterprise architecture
- ▸What each gap actually costs you after close — sourced to MIT Sloan, EY, Gallup, and HBR
- ▸The one diligence question that surfaces each one before you commit to a price
- ▸Written from the operating side of integration, by Shana Nussbaum
Every figure is sourced and linked — Zylo, Gallup, MIT Sloan, Harvard Business Review, EY.