Delivering your Acquisition Integrations
Turning the strategy into a plan of action
If a department in your business is re-organized, it would be disruptive
If every department in your business is re-organized, it would be difficult to keep the business on track
If every department in two business is re-organized (the acquiring and the acquired business)
- This is what happens when you integrate an acquired business
Typical engagements include subscriptions to our Certified Acquisition Integration Manager program for your team members
What’s involved in an acquisition integration set up?
We have the experience to navigate the complexities of post-acquisition integration
Cross-Functional Dependencies
Bringing together two businesses is a collection of numerous separate projects, many of which are dependent upon others.
Each team or department has a list of action items with varying priorities, and many have cross functional dependencies. It can get complex, quickly
Our approach includes:
Creating the Plan
We develop the high level plan from your strategy, working with the managers who will carry out the tasks that bring the systems, processes, people and cultures of the businesses together. The end product is a custom program of projects:
We address:
- Onboarding and staff retention preparation
- Task list development
- Day One preparation
- Status meeting structure, tools
- Reporting hierarchy
Sustaining the Businesses while Integrating them
Successfully delivering an integration requires:
- Delivering the value of the acquisition, as planned by the Deal Team
- Communicating with credibility and candidness, to gain trust
- Respect and protection of the acquired business' culture
- Effective, pragmatic prioritization of tasks
- Accommodation of unexpected issues and hurdles, when they are discovered
- Efficient status meetings
- Reporting clarity for leadership