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Top 20 Risks Facing U.S. Tech Companies
by Don E. Sears
No. 20
Credit or financial risk of customers, vendors, suppliers: 48%
No. 19
Labor concerns: 49%
No. 18
Accounting, internal controls and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance: 54%
No. 16 (Tied)
Natural disasters, war, conflicts and terrorist attacks: 55%
Inability to acquire capital or financing: 55%
No. 15
Pressures on pricing, margins and cost cutting: 56%
No. 14
Cyclical revenue (and resulting fluctuations in stock price): 57%
No. 13
Predicting customer demand: 63%
No. 12
Product liability, quality and safety issues: 64%
No. 11
Failure to properly executive corporate strategy: 68%
No. 10
Intellectual property infringement: 74%
No. 9
U.S. and foreign supplier or vendor concerns: 75%
No. 8
Legal proceedings: 80%
No. 6 (Tied)
Inability to attract or retain personnel, including management: 83%
Risks associated with international operations: 83%
No. 5
Management of current and future M&A or divestitures: 86%
No. 4
Changes to federal, state and local regulations, including tax: 88%
No. 3
U.S. general economic conditions: 93%
No. 1 (Tied)
Failure to develop or market new products or services: 94%
Competition and consolidation in technology sector: 94%
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With the economy still in flux, U.S. tech companies have a lot of concerns. With that in mind, professional services firm BDO created a list of the top 20 risks and concerns tech companies have in 2010. The information is based on risk factors listed by businesses in various filings with U.S Securities and Exchange Commission. To compile the list, BDO used data from the 100 largest publicly traded technology companies in the United States. These risk factors are short-term issues that could negatively affect business. This eWEEK presentation is a countdown from No. 20 to No. 1, although some rankings were tied as percentages. Does your company or IT department have similar concerns?