Whenever there are mergers and acquisitions, technology integration is one of the most challenging and critical elements. EC Managed IT provides you with the tools and support you need to exploit this opportunity to increase deal value and competitive advantage.
Whenever there are mergers and acquisitions, technology integration is one of the most challenging and critical elements. EC Managed IT provides you with the tools and support you need to exploit this opportunity to increase deal value and competitive advantage.
Technology integration plays an increasingly important role in a merger and acquisition’s deal value, but it is often under-resourced, causing costs to spiral out of control. Having handled IT consulting and technology integration for many years, we have developed a few “golden rules”:
1. It is the beginning of the process that causes a high percentage of technology integrations to fail, not the end
2. There is a lot of capital at stake: About 65% of business synergies are technology-enabled.
3. To avoid cost proliferation throughout the integration process, there needs to be a clear cost-management process.
A third-party MSP is recommended to implement a network strategy as it's not enough for companies to rely on their traditional M&A capabilities when it comes to digital transformation.
As today's business pace demands accelerated delivery times, digital is the only tool they have at their disposal. Positioning firms more competitively by applying digital to pre-deal processes.
When digital strategies are applied to internal M&A processes in advance of deals multiplying, organizations will be better able to reap the benefits of both digital and traditional acquisitions.
With digital technologies applied effectively, C-suite leaders can transform M&A into a science, increasing its capabilities as a driver of innovation and growth.
Investing in digital technology requires a unique process developed by experienced third-party MSPs. A modified roadmap is viewed as an advantage by leaders in all aspects of target screening, valuation, discovery, and negotiations.
Analytics and applied intelligence enable companies to improve their end-to-end acquisition capabilities. By doing so, better insights are generated, run a smoother M&A process, and extract more value from their deals
post-merger integration (PMI)
In order to ensure successful post-merger integration (PMI) within a merger and acquisition, businesses need a reliable plan and the flexibility to adapt when changes are needed. Through a successful Enterprise Architecture strategy, inorganic growth can be both stabilized and flexible, allowing merged businesses to collaborate and rationalize technology landscapes to improve the combined enterprise’s performance.
Post-merger integration benefits of using an enterprise architecture tool include:
1. Establishing a common understanding of the truth among all stakeholders.
post-merger integration (PMI)
In order to ensure successful post-merger integration (PMI) within a merger and acquisition, businesses need a reliable plan and the flexibility to adapt when changes are needed. Through a successful Enterprise Architecture strategy, inorganic growth can be both stabilized and flexible, allowing merged businesses to collaborate and rationalize technology landscapes to improve the combined enterprise’s performance.
Post-merger integration benefits of using an enterprise architecture tool include:
1. Establishing a common understanding of the truth among all stakeholders.
By providing visibility throughout the entire PMI process in your merger and acquisition, enterprise architecture reduces IT complexity and risk. By doing so, EC Managed IT is able to identify and address legacy and unsupported technologies as well as problems arising from data interdependencies.
Identifying and decommissioning redundancies in applications and the network is key to reducing a business’s operating costs during mergers and acquisitions. This establishes a baseline for EC Managed IT to determine what applications will be retained, inherited, or eliminated.
Plan for the future
Future deal planning and completion will be influenced by several factors in a merger and acquisition. It will be the new ways of “being” that will change the way deals are planned and completed in the future (working from home, social distance, etc.), as well as the future of capital investment and the shift in industry paths.
During the last decade, the number of mergers and acquisitions has more than tripled, from 6% to 23%. For organizations to stay competitive in the digital age, they must invest more in technology making IT support more critical than ever.
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