Due Diligence Toolkit

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Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Due Diligence Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Due Diligence related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Due Diligence specific requirements:


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Due Diligence Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.

Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…

  • Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation

Then find your goals...


STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 993 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.

Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:

  1. Is there coverage if there is a cyber extortion event that blocks access to the business telephone or computer system or its data, including potential lost business and/or business interruption?

  2. How your checklist to play it clear indemnification provision shall have if included, contract checklist for data and you give approval is better workflow and performance scores and insurance?

  3. Does your organization commit to any international standards, industry or any association guidelines, reporting frameworks, or initiatives that promote responsible investment practices?

  4. What type of cybersecurity program and key elements can a CISO put in place to demonstrate due diligence in protecting your organizations information assets and resiliency?

  5. Does your entity perform enhanced due diligence for higher risk categories of customer, business relationship or transaction and does it apply to existing customers?

  6. What do you believe sets your organizations services apart from the competition, and allows your organization to generate superior performance and service levels?

  7. Has there has been a material modification to an existing product that is expected to present increased reputational, legal, market, investment or other risks?

  8. How do the current accounting principles compare to the accounting principles used by other competitor companies in your organizations industry segment?

  9. Are your customers requesting that you implement human rights and/or environmental management processes to demonstrate your sustainability performance?

  10. Have there been any material organizational developments at your organization as changes in ownership, personnel, business over the past five years?


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:

  • The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Due Diligence book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

Your Due Diligence self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:

  • The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Due Diligence Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Due Diligence areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:

    • Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
    • Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Due Diligence Self-Assessment
    • Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results
    • Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:

 

STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Due Diligence projects with the 62 implementation resources:

  • 62 step-by-step Due Diligence Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Due Diligence project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Risk Audit: Is an annual audit required and conducted of your financial records?

  2. Closing Process Group: What level of risk does the proposed budget represent to the Due Diligence project?

  3. Risk Audit: Do you have a procedure for dealing with complaints?

  4. Project Performance Report: To what degree are the members clear on what they are individually responsible for and what they are jointly responsible for?

  5. Quality Management Plan: How does your organization manage training and evaluate its effectiveness?

  6. Activity Duration Estimates: What are some crucial elements of a good Due Diligence project plan?

  7. Procurement Management Plan: Have process improvement efforts been completed before requirements efforts begin?

  8. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Cwbs elements to be subcontracted, with identification of subcontractors?

  9. Project Charter: Strategic fit: what is the strategic initiative identifier for this Due Diligence project?

  10. Procurement Management Plan: Does a documented Due Diligence project organizational policy & plan (i.e. governance model) exist?

 
Step-by-step and complete Due Diligence Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Due Diligence project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Due Diligence project Management Plan
  • 2.2 Scope Management Plan
  • 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
  • 2.4 Requirements Documentation
  • 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
  • 2.6 Due Diligence project Scope Statement
  • 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log
  • 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure
  • 2.9 WBS Dictionary
  • 2.10 Schedule Management Plan
  • 2.11 Activity List
  • 2.12 Activity Attributes
  • 2.13 Milestone List
  • 2.14 Network Diagram
  • 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements
  • 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure
  • 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates
  • 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet
  • 2.19 Due Diligence project Schedule
  • 2.20 Cost Management Plan
  • 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates
  • 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet
  • 2.23 Cost Baseline
  • 2.24 Quality Management Plan
  • 2.25 Quality Metrics
  • 2.26 Process Improvement Plan
  • 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix
  • 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities
  • 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan
  • 2.30 Communications Management Plan
  • 2.31 Risk Management Plan
  • 2.32 Risk Register
  • 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment
  • 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix
  • 2.35 Risk Data Sheet
  • 2.36 Procurement Management Plan
  • 2.37 Source Selection Criteria
  • 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan
  • 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:

  • 3.1 Team Member Status Report
  • 3.2 Change Request
  • 3.3 Change Log
  • 3.4 Decision Log
  • 3.5 Quality Audit
  • 3.6 Team Directory
  • 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
  • 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
  • 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
  • 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:

  • 4.1 Due Diligence project Performance Report
  • 4.2 Variance Analysis
  • 4.3 Earned Value Status
  • 4.4 Risk Audit
  • 4.5 Contractor Status Report
  • 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:

  • 5.1 Procurement Audit
  • 5.2 Contract Close-Out
  • 5.3 Due Diligence project or Phase Close-Out
  • 5.4 Lessons Learned

 

Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Due Diligence project with this in-depth Due Diligence Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit 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 put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, 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 Toolkit 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 Toolkit enables You to be that person.

 

Includes lifetime 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.