CHAPTER 6
How Will I Deliver on My Vision and Promises? Part I
From Deal Strategy to Pre-Close Integration Management
If you think you’ve done a lot of work to this point and have made many decisions, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Integration is where the rubber meets the road.
There can be a tendency to race to announcement and treat it like a finish line, but such an attitude can lead to stumbles. Acquirers can be ill prepared for the sheer volume of work that is involved in moving to planning the actual integration. It requires engineering a process that will involve as many as 10,000 non-routine, highly unusual decisions, and senior leaders will have to devote significant time and energy while the rest of the organization swims in fear, ...
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