Culture Integration and Effective Change Management are the key limiters to driving value from Acquisitions and Mergers. PeopleFirm works with organizations to drive higher levels of value and better outcomes for all involved.

1. Merger and Integration
Common Challenges
during due diligence
your mergers and acquisitions?
transition plans
engaging leaders
Is your merger at risk? Why do mergers fail?
understanding of the why, what,
and how
knowledge and resources
structures
Over 78% of mergers fail 85% of what dooms merger success
to meet expectations is related to cultural integration
employees, customers, suppliers,
and other key stakeholders — Wall Street Journal — Industrial Management
business processes
You evaluated the synergies, you ran the business models, you discussed
the deal at length, and you are confident of the return. So while you
and productivity
know that you made the right strategic decision, do you know that
your success is now dependent on making the right leadership,
organizational, and people decisions?
Most [mergers] fail to add Don’t become another statistic of failed mergers and acquisitions.
shareholder value—indeed, PeopleFirm can help:
post-merger, two-thirds of
the newly formed companies
perform well below the
industry average.
— Harvard Management Update
Your People = Your Success

2. What’s your People and
Communication
Most companies over-invest in the integration of technology/
Optimization Organizational
systems and under-invest in the elements that ensure successful Phase Alignment
mergers: people, process, culture, and leadership. Processes and
Systems
Operational Efficiency
Stabilization
Cultural integration is ignored
Phase
Mobilization in the majority of business
Phase combinations. This is a major
reason why 60% to 80% of all
business combinations undergo
Conversion a slow, painful demise.
Phase
— Journal Of Property Management
Time
Mobilization Phase Conversion Phase Stabilization Phase Optimization Phase
and articulation assessment refinement
and communications goals
assessment
workforce planning in
the new world
assessments
survey
redesign & alignment
and oversight
refinement
organization
day” plan
evaluation
roadmap
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management and adoption efforts that
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