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That’s a phrase I often hear after IT issues derail promising investments. Here’s the pattern:<\/span>➡️ Investor puts money in company X, the future looks bright. ✨<\/span> Of course, that is what I do. But also\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n When you buy a used car, do you just believe the smooth and smiling salesperson? \u201cLook at that beautiful paint, think of how wonderful all your holidays will be!\u201d 🚗✨<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cGreat, here is my money.\u201d 💸<\/span><\/p>\n Or\u2026 might you want a peek under the hood as well? 🔍 Just like with a car, investing in a company without checking its ‘engine\u2019 (its IT and engineering capability), can lead to unexpected issues down the road. 🚧<\/span><\/p>\n Don\u2019t wait for the inevitable \u201cIf only we had known\u201d. Let\u2019s talk about how Technology Due Diligence defines the actions needed for a smooth investment ride.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/underTheHood4.jpg” title_text=”underTheHood4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That’s a phrase I often hear after IT issues derail promising investments. Here’s the pattern:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tdd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
➡️ Business results lag behind expectations 📉<\/span>
➡️ Fingers are pointed at IT\/engineering as bottleneck, mentioning issues like technical debt and scalability. 👈<\/span>
➡️ Then comes the call: \u201cWouter, can you help us understand and fix this?\u201d 🛠️<\/span><\/p>\n