Due Diligence

When entering into a business relationship, the parties will usually go through a process of due diligence to ensure that they can have assurance that the people or organisation they are dealing with are capable of delivering what they say they plan to do.

Employers undertake their own due diligence when asking job candidates for details of who can provide a reference for their previous experience and behaviour.

You might ask a roofer to identify what work he had done on other buildings so their bona fides can be established.

Politicians seeking election set out their experience in their manifesto/promotional material and expect to be asked about that experience by the media and by individual electors.

The exception to this rule appears to be the front man for a major golf course development on the Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.  Ask yourself if you would do business with a man with this track record.

Is it true?  Note the date - April 2011. Due Diligence would establish that Donald Trump is quite quick on the draw in deploying his learned friends if he thinks he's been slighted.  This article is still there 2 years later so one can only assume that Aberdeenshire Council, Scottish Enterprise, Robert Gordon University, successive First Ministers of Scotland, and many others involved in the great project Scotland didn't look very closely.  Indeed it looks very much like they did not exercise due diligence.

TIGL Golfer Bookings Week Commencing 1 July 2013

The links were open from 0730 until 1530 every day - 33 available slots of 4 golfers every quarter of an hour - except for Mondays where it appears to start business from 12 noon - 15 available slots of 4 golfers every quarter of an hour.

Monday 1 July

• 33 golfers booked out of 60 potential
• 10 tee-time slots used from 15 available

Tuesday 2 July

• 41 golfers booked out of 132 potential;
• 12 tee-time slots used from 31 available
  

Wednesday 3 July

• 80 golfers booked out of 132 potential;
• 21 tee-time slots used from 33 available
  

Thursday 4 July

• 58 golfers booked out of 132 potential;
• 17 tee-time slots used from 33 available

Friday 5 July

• 79 golfers booked out of 132 potential;
• 22 tee-time slots used from 33 available
  

Saturday 6 July

• 62 golfers booked out of 132 potential;
• 19 tee-time slots used from 33 available
  

Sunday 7 July

• 53 golfers booked out of 132 potential;
• 18 tee-time slots used from 33 available

For the whole week, this works out at 47.7% of golfer capacity used.

 [All data transcribed from TIGL online booking tool the evening before. Casual on the day bookings not therefore captured; all golfers assumed to have turned up. Cannot guarantee that all paid for their rounds]