Using Private Equity Project Management Software to Improve Business Processes
FollowFollow Why would a private equity or other financial firm take a project-management-oriented approach to improve business processes? How would they implement such a system? What purpose would this approach serve for private equity and financial firms? What...
How Private Equity Firms Optimize Portfolio Operations
FollowFollow When a private equity (PE) firm invests in a business, for example, a start-up, that company becomes part of the firm’s portfolio. The key reason a private equity firm would buy a stake in a portfolio company is to increase its value, then sell the...
How to Build a Good Deal Flow Management Process
FollowFollow Hunter Walker, a partner at Homebrew Venture Capital (VC) is often quoted saying “you lose 100% of the deals you don’t see”. As a venture capitalist, if your deal flow process is poorly managed, you’re likely missing out on a lot of suitable investment...
Understanding and Reducing Operational Risk
FollowFollow Although financial organizations have known about operational risk since business began, it’s only been an independent discipline for the last two decades. It still took a financial crisis and the ensuing flood of regulatory and enforcement fines and...