Integration

Throughout Gene and John’s years of experience, they know that plans never go perfectly. Always expect the unexpected. In this webinar, Gene Hugh, Chief Financial Officer at Procure Analytics, and John Morada, COO at M&A Science + DealRoom, discuss how to execute an integration plan on day one

M&A deals are notorious for going belly up, particularly during the integration phase. Why is it that this phase of the process is the most difficult? Kison sits down with Galina Wolinetz from Virtas Partners and James Payne from Merger Integration Consulting to discuss.

This discussion focuses around the topic of how to approach M&A with integration. Hear from Stacy Hendricks, Carlos Cesta, and Javid Moosaji on the importance of finding a well-rounded integration leader and how to get the C-suite aligned and in agreement with one another.

How can companies set the tone for trust and transparency on each side of the deal throughout the deal process? During this session, Jill, Cole, Josh, and Amy discuss ways to help employees navigate through an M&A experience.

Teams are trying to figure out how to modernize IMO, and how to build a synergy plan that actually delivers. In this session, Jonathan and Bill discuss bench strength, creating the right IMO team, tips for modernizing, and more.

Culture and integration start before the deal closes. Do you have the same values? How do you praise performance? In this session, Valeria and Jonathan discuss why culture is so important to deal success.

Join Christina Amiry and Steve Elliott for an insightful discussion on how to make both sides happy during integration. Learn tricks Atlassian has implemented in past deals that created extremely successful outcomes and how you can apply those same tricks to your practice.

In this discussion, Toby Tester presents the idea of applying Agile techniques to your integration process and why it's so important to always be re-thinking your approach. He shares lessons he's learned thoughout his career and gives examples of how plays can be uniquely modified to fit the needs of your deal.

Join Laura Lane, Kimberly Baird, and Dawn White on an in-depth look at the current climate of the M&A landscape and how to modernize the tools and tactics you use during integration in order to focus on the people experience. Together they share lessons learned in their fields and what they've done in order to adjust to remote work while ensuring successful integration outcomes.

This discussion breaks down the standard approach to integration and forces you to challenge everything you learned about integration. Join Zoe Bogan, Ben de Haldevang, and David Boyd and learn how to re-frame your thinking in order to achieve a more successful outcome.

Learn how to effectively communicate cross functionally with Devorah Bertucci and Kim Jones. Together they address common roadblocks in communication how to more efficiently gather insight and risk identification by letting business leaders responsible for integration be involved in due diligence.

A team can make or break a company’s success, so attention to both teams’ ability to adapt and merge together post-close is imperative. Post-integration should be considered throughout the development to ensure you are fruitful going forward. Recognition of common failures will also aid in identifying issues early on to pivot quickly. The integration process can provide an excellent opportunity to assess the team, current operations, and the product in order to shift and be more prosperous going forward.

Change management is the discipline of equipping your employees with the desire, knowledge, skills, and abilities to operate in a new way. In this PDF you’ll learn about the importance of change management, as well as strategies and best practices.

Cisco is one of the largest and most successful acquirers in the world. On this week's episode of the podcast, Karen Ashley, VP of Corporate Development Integration at Cisco, shares how to fully commit to integration from start to finish. Karen shares their process at Cisco, how to have commitment and acquisition strategy alignment meetings, and the success metrics they use very early in the process.

When building your GTM plan, you have to start with your baseline deliverables. What are the things that need to happen for the functions to be fully integrated? In this interview, Gwen Pope, Head of Global Product M&A at eBay, talks about how to create a successful M&A GTM plan.

In this episode of the M&A Science podcast, Kison interviews Jim Buckley, Vice President, Mergers and Acquisitions Integration at VMware as he talks about how to create a successful integration plan.

The first step to creating a better people experience is understanding the target company’s culture and your own. In this week's podcast interview, Klint Kendrick, Chair of the HR M&A Round Table, talks about how empathy, strategy, and integration can all contribute to a better people experience in M&A.

The importance of integration has never been more prevalent. And standing up a dedicated function to oversee integration is becoming more of a necessity as a company grows more prominent. In this webinar, Ian Burk, EVP of integration at Upland Software, talks about how to stand up an IMO.