Posts Tagged ‘Board oversight’
What boards and investment committees need on record to check a purchase later.
In the book: Chapter 2: The Broken Value Flow (1) · Chapter 4: The Information Asymmetry Collapse (1) · Chapter 10: The Buyer Governance Pyramid (1) · Chapter 11: Outcome Credibility Markets (1) · Chapter 20: The Buyer Value Practice (1) · Chapter 21: Decision Artifacts That Govern Outcomes (2)
Business Cases Budget the Software and Assume the Change
The cost of changing how people work rarely appears in an investment case. Written down as conditions the business agrees to meet, it can be staffed and budgeted before approval and checked at the review afterward.
Read MoreAccounting Rule Makers Are Cutting a Test of Whether Deals Worked
The International Accounting Standards Board proposed that companies disclose whether an acquisition met the targets they set on the day they bought it, and that is the line now proposed for removal.
Read MoreNew C-Suite Roles Coordinate Strategy but Own None of the Results
The market’s newest answer to the alignment gap is a C-suite seat that owns none of it. Alignment is not agreement, and custody is structural or it is absent. Rebuild the table.
Read MoreThe Purchases Your Approval Process Never Sees
Every buying organization governs spend, approvals, and contract terms. Almost none governs attention, which decides what ever reaches those controls. Value that never enters evaluation leaves no record at all.
Read MoreIn Due Diligence, Value You Can’t Prove Gets Priced as Risk
Value governed by a standard is legible in the data room; value that lives in someone else’s method gets priced as a risk, or leaves at renewal.
Read MoreOverseeing What AI Produces Is Already a Legal Duty
The obligation to oversee what the machine produces is already law. The only open question is whether it is discharged by a standard or left to whoever is willing to hold the…
Read MoreWhy Offices Set Up to Track Purchase Results Keep Getting Cut
The industry’s answer to unrealized value is a new office. An office can be defunded. A standard cannot. The remedy arriving as furniture is a category error.
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