Gene Slowinski, PhD,is director of strategic alliance research at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Management and managing partner of the Alliance Management Group in Gladstone, New Jersey.
Avoiding the Train Wreck
The "due diligence framework" is an efficient process. But efficient is not the same as quick and easy. There are no shortcuts. The framework minimizes resource commitments and disruptions to ongoing programs and helps each side learn what it needs to know. In six steps, it converts the typical due diligence root canal into a painless filling.