Merger Integration Strategy and Planning

Additional Resources:

• A 120-Year Perspective on M&A

  
  If past is prologue, we should expect deal-making to come in waves throughout the 21st Century.

• Checklist: Is this a Good Deal?

  
  Clarify the value drivers and synergies of the acquisition.

• Which is Easier—Making the Deal or Making the Deal Work?

  
  Can you beat the odds?

• Plan Early on How to Capture Synergies and Accelerate the Post-Merger Integration

  
  Anticipate issues that could slow the realization of synergies.

• Is This a Good Deal? Clarify the Value Drivers and Quantify Synergies

  
  Clarify the Value Drivers of the acquisition.

• 15 Revealing Facts on Divestitures

  
  What you sell can be just as important as what you buy.

• How "Good" Deals Go Bad: The Most Common Causes of M&A Failures

  
  Understand the challenges.

• The Fundamentals of a Successful Merger Integration Strategy and Plan

  
  Moving through the transition with speed, focus, and urgency.

• Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions: New Game, New Goals

  
  Today versus the Old Days

• Acquisition Integration Planning Should Begin Before Day One

  
  22 pre-close questions for executives.

• Don't Get Cocky: M&A Integration Risks and Challenges

  
  Ignore these M&A integration pitfalls at your own peril.

• A Checklist for Mergers . . . and Marriages

  
  Questions to consider before you walk down the aisle.

• Merger Integration Project Management: Fundamentals and Common Mistakes

  
  The integration process, project structure, and challenges.

• Save Lessons Learned: Integration Best Practices Tracking Tool

  
  Why and how to document lessons learned.

• The M&A Integration Process: Five Discrete Stages

  
  The logical sequence of steps to integrate an organization.

• The Post-Merger Integration Audit

  
  Document the lessons learned.

• Checklist: Forming Your Merger Integration Teams

  
  16 questions to address.

• M&A Checklist: Human Resources Due Diligence

  
  List of 61 typical HR information requests.