The Integration Strategy Design Workshop Provides Executives With a Structured Way to Quickly Build a Solid Integration Blueprint. Designing a consistent view of the Integration path should be done quickly, and validated just after the closing.
| Objectives - Expected benefits to clients | What we do - Key deliverables | Our value-add |
Build a cooperative mindset between the buyers and the target management teams - write off resistance to change coming potentially from both sides.
Share integration priorities and path : define the key qualitative and quantitative goals, the respective deliverables and milestones.
Secure the links with strategic goals: ensure they are well understood and shared by both top management teams.
Minimise the risks of divergence related to the involvement of the different organisational layers. | Review of strategic analysis - Integration goals, key risks, interdependencies with other strategic initiatives.
Review of operational and financial due diligence analysis - key business assumptions, risks, follow-up of due diligence work.
Executive meetings with corresponding subject-matter experts : understanding of management priorities and hidden agendas, integration risks and issues from a line management perspective, internal or external milestones, dependencies.
Value Roadmap : listing of key qualitative and quantitative benefits, draft top-down goals per wotkstream.
Blueprint drafting : list of key objectives per workstream, list of workstreams and contributors, planning, major risks and issues and mitigation actions.
Integration design workshop. Validation of blueprint drafting and of integration strategy and action plan. | Check list of potential risks and issues for accelerated review.
Hands-on expertise on each critical subject.
Best practices and lessons learnt on past integration projects.
A detailed work program to be applied : checklists, templates.
Collaborative workflow solutions dedicated to merger integration. |
Last update : 05.23.2009