Camila Casale
In 2015 global M&A activity reached $4.9 trillion according to CNBC, beating the 2007 record of $4.6 trillion. But behind the headlines and the spectacular dollar amounts were dozens— if not hundreds—of IT and business management teams that probably struggled to integrate the information systems of the merged companies.
These integrations can get expensive, especially when not planned well. And the most important mistake these companies can make is treating the integration of information systems as an IT project instead of a business project.
M&A activity must become a repeatable process and a playbook will help you overcome common challenges, including money, time, and resources. In fact we wrote about the benefits of an IT M&A playbook last year (you can read it here).
Due to the increasing reliance corporations have put into mergers & acquisitions as a growth strategy, it’s more important now than ever to do it right, and to turn it into a repeatable process, which is why our own Oscar Flamingos, IT M&A Consultancy Services Principal Consultant at Softtek, will be speaking about this on June 23rd at 1pm EST, during a 20-minute mini-webinar (aka “MEGA Byte”), hosted by our partner, MEGA.
During this webinar Flamingos will cover four best practices for successful IT integration:
- Starting the integration in-house
- Putting an integration framework in place
- Developing an integration playbook
- Identifying low-hanging fruit for scalability
So if you’d like to learn more about how an IT M&A playbook can help you during your next acquisition, register for the webinar. Hope to ‘see’ you there!
