Post Merger Integration / Mergers and Acquisitions
Service Summary
Acquisition Integration Services.
Typical Benefits
I work with acquisitive businesses to integrate their acquisitions into the parent organisations. I focus on technology and specifically infrastructure related. Have performed hundreds of integrations over the years. Myself and my team are qualified Azure, Google and AWS engineers. We also Project Manage our engagements and follow our set methodology.
Overview
We manage Post Merger Integration – with an infrastructure technology focus. We have worked with many acquisitive clients enabling them to access the ROI on the original deal without technology related erosion.
- Guided to a greater position of influence supported by improved sponsorship
- Identified critical areas of value and opportunities to exploit them
- Enhanced business capability through resilience, agility and adaptability
- Nurture a culture of engaged people, delivery and achievement
- Refined definition of current state, desired future state, and how to get there
- Facilitate better alignment to business strategy and plan
- Create an internal network of ‘champions’ or ‘transformers’
- Avoid project stoppages due to lack of senior buy-in
- Effectively manage scope creep
- Reduce complexity and create simplicity
- Reduce the impact of siloes
- Avoid losing key people by reskilling and retraining
- Remove risk of exclusion of stakeholders at any stage of the transformation
- Overcome resistance and drive adoption
- Reduce risk of delays or costs due to business not being ready or prolonged dual running
- Reduce risk of delivering incompatible or incomplete solutions
- Stop IT being or feeling caught in the middle
- Avoid unrealistic or conflicting expectations
- Reduce time wasted to deliver value, with prioritised delivery of the right things at the right time
- Reduce effect of detractors
Our Requirements of You
Ensuring an executive sponsor from your organisation is allocated to the engagement, communicates the rationale behind it and signs off any ‘Terms of Reference’. * Assisting in all possible ways to ensure that a contract, (and confidentiality agreement where necessary) is in place, in advance of any work commencing. * Ensuring all support is in place and access is granted for all and any required data, processes, policies, meeting rooms and nominated resources to enable successful delivery of the engagement. * Ensuring sponsor availability within the agreed timeline, to resolve any significant issues that may impact the timely completion of the engagement, if not resolved in a timely manner.
Our Commitments to You
Provide support throughout service delivery using our World Class Professionals and Subject Matter Experts * Provide high quality deliverables in a timely manner and in line with agreements upon engagement with the client [Any changes to this will be mutually agreed in writing, in advance, between all involved parties] * Provide deep insights and genuine value-add in all possible areas throughout the engagement * Provide progress updates and feedback at regular intervals, agreed in advance or at the engagement ‘kick off session’ * Respect all personal and professional development of client team members throughout the engagement
Focus In On: Responsible for Digital Business Transformation
New Areas of Value:
Increased credibility, confidence and influence across the business
Creating a culture of involvement, empowerment and connection to the business
Improved business agility and ability to rapidly respond to change and opportunity
Effective delivery against financial targets
Digital transformation that drives, moves and resets the organisation’s vision
Driving a culture of innovation for easier and faster adoption of future digital trends
Successful, timely delivery of evidence-based digital transformational outcomes; beyond digitisation
Better employer brand recognition from improved reputation and or culture
More satisfied and engaged employees with increased retention and productivity
Improvements around:
Lack of availability of the right people at the right time across both business and technology areas
Cynicism, lack of buy-in and resistance to change
Lack of agreement of transformation governance and stakeholder understanding leading to a fragmented approach
Unclear and siloed business strategy leading to misaligned goals across the organisation that conflict with transformation
The IT function is not aligned to the digital business strategy and vision
Leaders mandating a change management and implementation approach that’s not appropriate to the organisation
Conflict between perception and reality of digital skills, tools, methods and talent required and available
Lack of exec sponsorship and ownership
