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Most companies wait until after close to trust a forecast. Here’s why the earliest version of forecast ownership is also the easiest one.

The task list is the least important part of a 100-day plan. What matters is which processes the work touches, who owns each one, and who still owns it on day 101.

Keeping an acquisition as its own business unit feels careful. It’s usually an integration that never finished. Here’s what it costs at exit.

Sixteen thousand PE-backed companies sit in the global exit queue. Buyers and lenders are spotting lazy financial engineering. Here’s what’s underneath, and one diagnostic the CEO can run before someone else does it for them.

There’s a question that comes up in almost every diligence process, asked in different ways by different buyers: where does

Every software company has a strategic plan. Most of them also have a separate set of operational problems that the

The standard integration question is: how does the target operate? The right question is: what do they have that we

Every integration management office started as a perfectly reasonable idea. That’s what makes this hard to talk about.