In many private equity transactions, technology diligence is still treated as a defensive exercise.
A generalist team moves through an IT questionnaire under a compressed timeline, a cybersecurity scan is added late in the process, and the final report is framed around a narrow question: is there anything here that could stop the deal?
That question is too limited.
After more than 25 years in enterprise technology leadership, including Group CIO roles at two private equity funds overseeing roughly 35 portfolio companies, I have seen the same pattern from both sides of the transaction.
Technology diligence should answer a more important question: what is technology worth to the investment thesis?
The gap between those two questions is where value often disappears during the hold period.
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