Mergers and Acquisitions Planning
- Achieving effective organisation integration
- Recognising the importance of people strategy
- Creating a new culture
The rapidly changing economic landscape has created an increasingly uncertain environment and generated strong incentive for business mergers and acquisitions. Yet historically, around two thirds have failed to generate the anticipated added value.
One of the major reasons for this is a lack of focus on the people and cultural issues. Typically mergers and acquisitions planning has been driven by operations specialists whose focus is the financial, business and governance strategies and benefits communicated to analysts and investors in advance. Although generally recognising the importance of people dimensions in mergers and acquisitions planning, the focus tends to be on tactical issues of job definition, selection and redundancy rather than the more strategic issues of designing the new culture, planning to merge existing cultures, developing HR and communications strategy and ensuring the capture of "hearts and minds".
Mergers and Acquisitions Planning with PSI
We support mergers and acquisitions planning and integration to achieve effective and lasting integration strategies. We assist with culture formation, organisational alignment, setting the pace and activities for integration, monitoring progress, communication strategy, selection of the right people and support and facilitation for leaders and their teams.
