Developing a Mergers and Acquisitions IT Integration Plan. ✓ What's an effective roadmap to integrate IT during M&A & to enable an easy transition?

1. Mergers and Acquisitions IT Integration Plan
Developing a Mergers and Acquisitions IT Integration Plan. ✓ What's an effective
roadmap to integrate IT during M&A & to enable an easy transition?
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For as long as mergers and acquisitions have been occurring among businesses, one
of the areas that continually eludes those making the investments is the IT department.
Those responsible for making the decisions tend to lack the technical expertise
necessary to ask the appropriate due diligence questions of current IT capabilities,
costs and risks. What’s an effective roadmap to integrate IT during M&A and to enable
an easy transition? How do you choose what to retain and what to let go? How do you
avoid challenges with politics and culture that could derail a transition? And what is IT’s
appetite for security risk when the department is at its most vulnerable?
Contributor
● Karen Porter-Wolf, SVP, Chief Information Officer, Assurant Solutions

2. As CIO of Assurant Solutions, Ms. Porter-Wolf leads the charge in leveraging
technology in intelligent ways to create platforms for growth across the company’s 24
locations in 13 countries, while supporting its mission to keep consumers connected to
their digital lives through mobile insurance and extended protection programs.
She has been with Assurant Solutions, and its parent company Assurant Inc., for more
than 16 years. In that time, Ms. Porter-Wolf has made significant contributions to the
business including establishing a claims processing center in Ireland, creating a unified
regulatory compliance division for the Assurant enterprise and serving as Interim
General Manager of the Mexico office.
Previously, Ms. Porter-Wolf served as senior vice president of global client management
and senior vice president of regulatory compliance for the Assurant enterprise.
Ms. Porter-Wolf began her career with Assurant Solutions in 1995 as a manager in
financial claims. She was promoted to director and later to vice president of claims
when she relocated to Ireland to open Assurant Services Ireland, Ltd. The office opened
with 24 associates and had doubled by the time she returned to Miami in 2001.
Ms. Porter-Wolf holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the
University of Florida.
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