Implementing a Post-Merger Integration

Executives and business experts discuss some of the global trends in M&A and share their experiences in developing a strategic context for M&A integration, creating a corporate culture, and measuring integration success.

Document Highlights

In 1998, 12,000 M&A transactions were reported, and some of them broke previous records as the largest deals ever conducted. In this report, which is based on presentations made at the 1999 Post-Merger Integration Conference, executives and business experts discuss some of the global trends in M&A and share their experiences in developing a strategic context for M&A integration, creating a corporate culture, and measuring integration success.

Topics covered:

• Examining the Urge to Merge
• Implementing the Strategy to Match the Vision
• Getting the Systems Right: Integrating IT
• Communicating Integration
• The Human Resource Challenge
• The Role of Knowledge Management: How to Enhance Value in the New Company
• Defining the Yardstick: Measuring Integration Success

Special features:

• insights from representatives of The Alliance Management Group, Barnett International, BASF Corporation, Beckman Coulter, Inc., Bright Horizons Family Solutions, The Davis Consulting Group, Hoechst Marion Roussel, KPMG, Lucent Technologies, Magellan Behavioral Health, MidAmerican Energy Company, SAIC, Siemens AG, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., Wang Global

• recent M&A research from The Conference Board