Learn how to Successfully Integrate Acquired Businesses

What a thorough and brilliant course design. The weekly modules are excellent - great content, the right intensity and length, and tons of training aids to use in the real world. Beyond the online component, the virtual cohort meetings are a great place to discuss content and expand your network.

A very useful and well-structured training program. It gives an overview of the integration process in just the right amount of detail for those involved in or about to embark on an integration. If you are involved in acquisitions for the first time or specialize in one element of the process, this course provides you with a clear roadmap.

I’ve been involved in several acquisition integrations in previous roles. Some integrations accomplished the corporate goal while others were abject failures. This course gave me insight into the intricacies of the integration process and offered a deeper understanding of the steps involved for a successful integration. Success involves so much more than two companies coming together under the same banner.

I highly recommend Intista's integration training. The training is comprehensive, based on years of integration experience and data-backed insight and very relevant to my integration work.

The best thing I learned was an overall framework and process for integrations. From this baseline, I can then adjust based on unique circumstances. But I now have a very good starting point.

The amount of knowledge and wisdom in this course cannot be met by anyone else.

... very responsive and helpful at every point of the course. I felt very supported.

Intista's Sales Integration Checklist is a great tool to use when bringing two separate teams together, with all its supporting elements in place. There are other tools for merging sales teams, but this is the best there is for mid-size M&A integration. I recommend that you download and use this tool when planning next steps.

As soon as M&A is done, everyone thinks that the job is over. Actually, the job starts there.

The CAIM is really helpful to understand the entire integration perspective, best practices, what works, what doesn't work, and the different types of integration.

I thought the course was well-presented and informative, with real-world experiences and stories of actual integration assignments. Acquisition integration is important to value retention and creation. As such, the acquirer should use a skilled and well-trained interaction professional.

I was really realizing the need to distinguish myself.

[The CAIM] was just so much value. It just hit so many value points for me, and what I was looking for. It was very well structured, very well thought out. It's very clearly communicated, and [gives] access to Steve and his knowledge, in the Masterminds.

Exceeded expectations. Substantial spreadsheets and checklists to support integration activity.

The CAIM allows us to do [the integration] in house... and still have complete control of the process

I've done a lot of strategy and execution work with companies looking to grow and was looking for a good framework to use to help get a tricky M&A business integration back on track after a year of challenges faced by the leadership team.  Going through the CAIM program and getting access to the great tools and resources has helped me to get this integration on track and build the framework for the next acquisition in the coming year.

[Intista] made the platform very easy to follow. The way [it] organizes the content to align with the actual integration process, I think it was very easy to follow. It is a great product that is highly customizable and has the structure that is needed for anyone who [wants to] jump in on it at any time.

The [course] exceeded my expectations. I think we were all 'experienced' coming into the class, but we all walked away with a much better understanding of the process which should help us collaborate better with corporate development on future integration work.

I would really recommend [it for] people who are already in the field of M&A Integration, or for those who are interested in pivoting to this field to consider the course. There are a lot of fundamental learnings one can get from this course, [including] the structure, processes, and results of integration...”

I loved it: the information, the way that everything is explained. The way that it flows all the way to the end. It is so well explained. It helps you concentrate and guide your process.

The class was comprehensive, and very practical. There's a lot of these that are theoretical and academic, and this is anything but that.

It was very valuable. Saving me or an organization involved many times the cost of the class. There was lot of the practical advice that I wish I had had about 12 months ago with an integration that we did.

I used to worry about integration after signing the papers I'd think "What do I do now?". It was a really good program that helped me understand the things that I need to consider to get the most value out of my acquisitions, based upon my acquisition goals. There were a lot of things that I wasn't thinking about.

The [CAIM] course recognizes the reality of how to do an integration. There are some really good things that I didn't want to miss, so I listened to the slides 2 to 4 times.

A groundbreaking certification. This is a really unique course. There are other courses that have a chapter or two on integration, but nothing to this degree.

It's another way to get that competitive edge.

We got lots of value from the CAIM, and I'd recommend it to anyone who needs to know how to integrate acquisitions.