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90 Digital Transformation Statistics: How Businesses are Using Digital to Drive Growth in 2021 and Beyond
For years, digital technology has provided business leaders with a powerful tool to increase efficiencies and deliver growth. Despite value […]
Inhouse Software Development: Friend or Foe?
Proprietary Software Development can be a Significant Asset or can Impede Growth and Agility. Here are some signs we look for when we look under the Hood of a Software Engine. […]
IT Due Diligence Checklist: Must-Assess Technology Elements Prior to Any Acquisition
Due diligence — technology due diligence specifically — is an important part of the M&A process. It has become essential […]
Understanding Technical Debt (+ Underlying Risks When the Bill Comes Due)
Similar to any credit card, the bill for a company’s technical debt will always come due. And, just like credit […]
Digital Maturity: What It Is, How to Achieve It, and the Digital Maturity Model to Drive Business Transformation
Before you learn to run, you must learn to walk. Before you take leaps in business, you must evaluate where […]
The New Hybrid Workforce: Maximizing Outcomes with a Return-to-Work Plan Backed by Technology
While the future of work had encompassed remote and hybrid work models pre-pandemic, the shift to these working models is […]
Introducing PIP’s New CEO: Dave Rutkowski
From the founding of Android and the launch of LinkedIn, to the release of iTunes and the first Blu-ray Disc […]
55+ Must-Know Data Analytics Statistics for 2021: Driving Business Value With Analytics and Big Data
“Trust your gut.” It’s advice that holds value in life and business. Yet, when it comes to making decisions that […]
Celebrating Women in Private Equity
Since 1911, women have been celebrated during March, International Women’s Month, in some way, shape, or form. What started off as International Women’s […]
IT Due Diligence Transformed: Driving More M&A Value Creation with Technology
More than ever, technology is vital to business growth. Thanks to the lockdown, digital transformation has accelerated at a pace […]
2021 Microsoft Breach: What the Attack Means for PE Firms and Portfolio Companies
We are consumed by our emails every day—on our laptops, our desktops, our phones—and Microsoft is the preferred email platform […]
2021 IT Spend: Top 5 Trends (+ Implications for Business Growth)
Throughout 2020, businesses saw increased awareness in technology investments and cybersecurity threats as corporations navigated work-from-home and lockdown mandates. This […]
As Market Trends Shift, Technology-Driven Value Creation Evolves
In the first half of 2020, Private Equity deals fell by 36% year-over-year due to the COVID-19 pandemic – with buyouts falling by […]
Three Reasons Why Private Equity Firms – and Their Portfolio Companies – Need a Data Analytics Strategy
Data has the power to create incremental portfolio value – in fact, data-driven, digitally-mature companies achieve ~30% higher net profit […]
How to Harness Data Analytics to Drive Business Value and Maximize ROI
Data-driven decisions have always been integral in creating business value. Now, as companies ready themselves for continuous pivots while navigating […]
Why Cybersecurity is Now a C-Suite and Board Matter (+ 4 Ways to Prepare with the Defense in Depth Approach)
Private Equity investors, C-suite executives, and board members are familiar with the high-stakes decision-making required to operate businesses, make deals, […]
As Cyber Risks Increase, Performance Improvement Partners, Launches Cybersecurity Guide for the Private Equity Sector
The 2020 Private Equity Guide to Cybersecurity: New Risks, Responsibilities, and Remediation Strategies, provides PE firms and their portfolio companies […]
Cyber Risk in 2021: The Hidden Costs of a Data Breach and Reality of Cybersecurity Threats
2020 has been the year to expect the unexpected. When building an investment thesis, few, if any, Private Equity firms […]
Business Insider: Cyberattacks against financial firms are up 238%. Experts explain why deep-pocketed private equity firms are most at risk
Due to the pandemic, cyber attacks have been on the rise with private equity firms quickly becoming a top target. […]
PIP’s Pro Bono Cyber Security Workshop Recognized by ACG Middle Market Growth
In the newest article recognizing how members of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) community are giving back in the […]
IT Spend 2020: CIOs Focus on Digital Transformation in a COVID-19 Era
If digital transformation wasn’t a CIO priority for 2020, it is now. As business strategies and priorities pivot as a […]
COVID-19 Cyber Security Statistics: 40 Stats and Facts You Can’t Ignore
It’s time to face the facts. While cyber attacks are nothing new, thanks to COVID-19, the threat is more real […]
6 Technology Implications and Opportunities for Businesses in the Wake of COVID-19
In everyone’s lifetime, at some point, we find ourselves living through the experiences that will be studied for generations to […]
Ensuring Cyber Security When Employees Work from Home
As the workforce shifts to a remote setting, employers find themselves with new challenges and concerns. Technology enables operations to […]
Business Continuity in a Time of Uncertainty
John Bisack March 13, 2020 – The health and safety of our clients, staff, and community remain a top priority […]
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