Resources for your Integration

Take advantage of these resources to help you integrate your acquired small or mid-size business

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Online Training

Succinct, applicable, focused training and certification on how to plan and execute the integration of an acquired Small, Lower-Mid or Mid-sized Business

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Intista flyers and white paper downloads

Students of our training get access to many additional downloads, including checklists and templates

Glossary

A comprehensive list of terms used in acquisition integration. Free to download

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74%

Workers who fear they will not reach their full potential, and want new skills*

*2012 Survey of Online Learning

59%

Workers who claim they had no workplace training and that most of their skills were self-taught

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Well-designed and delivered training can give an ROI of 4x to 6x

Certified Acquisition Integration Manager®

Training, certification and mentoring for you to deliver the value of your M&A through successful integration

Introduction to Acquisition Integration

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Sample of topics from the Certified Acquisition Integration Manager® course and an example of a training cohort

Getting off the Ground

Considerations that leadership should have before acquiring, discuss 6 myths about integrations, and differentiate between the priorities of the acquisition team and the integration team

Different Ways to Integrate

Four broad-category approaches to integrating an acquired small or mid-size business, along with the “Keep Separate” strategy

The Integration Organization

The teams that oversee, manage and deliver an acquisition integration; the members of these teams, their roles, qualifications and ideal qualities

Integration Objectives

Initiatives that define the focus areas, for the journey ahead: how to identify the objectives, and how these fit into the SSIM™ as a whole

Finance in Integrations

Learn how to estimate and budget the finances of an acquisition integration: three types of cost estimation, budget submission, and three types of synergy

Staff Retention after an Acquisition

Retention should be a priority of smaller integrations. We discuss non-financial and financial incentives, and introduce The Staff Retention Toolbox

Onboarding Acquired Staff

Onboarding an entire acquired business is complex, emotional, and critical to the success of integrating acquired smaller businesses

Preparing for Day 1

How you announce and welcome new employees is the difference between integration success and failure. Here we teach how to prepare and deliver the Day 1 announcement

Communication during Integrations

Learn how to communicate to the different audiences for an integration, applying seven communication objectives

Creating Acquisition Integration Projects

Walk through the process of turning integration objectives into workstream charters, and deriving the high level and details tasks.