Congratulations! You’ve avoided the temptation of jumping straight to a plan, but instead took the time first to ensure a clear view – agreed by all around you – of the objectives of your integration, how they combine to deliver the original acquisition goals, and...
Back to Basics – Demystifying Integration Design, Planning & Execution M&A integration: Seemingly straightforward, yet challenging in practice. Success comes down to a few basics. Often missed or misapplied, they are easy to spot in hindsight. To succeed, you must keep them in sight throughout the...
Post-acquisition success hinges on connecting and coordinating a constellation of heterogeneous assets. Quickly. Accurately. Securely. These include operating equipment as well as critical business systems. Plants must run. Employees must be paid. Management requires timely information. The emerging IoT only compounds the challenge. BTD, a boutique...
Back to Basics – Demystifying Integration Design, Planning & Execution M&A integration: Challenging to deliver, yet not complicated to understand. Success comes down to a few basics. Often missed or mis-applied, they are easy to spot in hindsight. To succeed, you must keep them in sight...
M&A integration: Challenging to deliver, yet not complicated to understand. Success comes down to a few basics. Often missed or mis-applied, they are easy to spot in hindsight. To succeed, you must keep them in sight throughout the tumult of the deal. Over 20 years,...
Most believe – supported by lots of evidence – that getting value out M&A is difficult, and far less consistently successful than it needs to be. While this is true, it’s important to understand that just because something is difficult to do, that doesn’t mean...
Over the years, Beyond the Deal has worked with organisations of all sizes from established sector leaders such as E.On and Coca-Cola to entrepreneurial firms of 50 employees using innovative ways to break into their market. We’ve learned that – while the depth and level...
The US shale industry is consolidating. It’s happening now. On Monday, September 28th, Devon and WPX Energy announced terms that create a dominant player in the Delaware Basin. These deals will continue, perhaps accelerating as leaders strive for survival, medium-term success or merely profitable exit....
This finding from EY in October 2019 generally reflects our own experience here at BTD, and has remained largely consistent over the 20 years in which we’ve been supporting client integrations. Costs are similarly not inherently different by sector, nor even by the type of...
I’ve been reading Sir Christopher Kelly’s report which is published today on the near collapse of the Co-operative Bank (Co-op) brought about (in part) by the botched takeover of Britannia Building Society. For such a large institution to have made such fundamental and catastrophic errors...