Services > Mergers and Acquisitions
As the work of companies becomes ever more knowledge intensive, the people in an acquired organisation become ever more important element of the deal. A large proportion of most mergers end up failing to produce added value. Our expertise can make all the difference between success and failure.
Before
- We provide a "cultural due diligence" service.
- Assess a potential target for compatibility with your existing culture
- Estimate the costs of integrating the cultures of the two organisations
- Assess the resilience of your internal culture in the face of change
- Assess how likely staff in the target company are to stay. For many businesses, the actual value is contained mostly within the people. If you don't have a plan to keep them you may as well just buy an empty office!
During
- As mentioned in the "internal communications" section, we can produce a communications plan to help keep all employees informed and engaged in this process of change.
- We can also plan specific interventions to help integrate the cultures of the two organisations involved.
After
- As soon as the bidding process has begun, then you will need to be communicating about the change with your employees.
- Not much further down the line you will have to communicate with people in the target organisation.
- Once the contracts have been signed, integration requires further communications, as planned above.
- We can provide resources to implement the plans:
- Workshop facilitation
- Communications material advice and design
- Individual and group coaching