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Make IT a Successful Partner in M&A Integration

Anticipate pressure – simultaneously conduct discovery and deliver quick-wins!

  • Many organizations forget the essential role IT plays during M&A integration. IT is often unaware of a merger or acquisition until the deal is announced, making it very difficult to adequately interpret business goals and appropriately assess the target organization.
  • IT-related integration activities are amongst the largest cost items in an M&A, yet these costs are often overlooked or underestimated during due diligence.
  • IT is expected to use the M&A team’s IT due diligence report and estimated IT integration budget, which may not have been generated appropriately.
  • IT involvement in integration is critical to providing a better view of risks, improving the ease of integration, and optimizing synergies.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

  • Anticipate that you are going to be under pressure. Fulfill short-term, tactical operational imperatives while simultaneously conducting discovery and designing the technology end-state.
  • To migrate risks and guide discovery, select a high-level IT integration posture that aligns with business objectives.

Impact and Result

  • Once a deal has been announced, use this blueprint to set out immediately to understand business M&A goals and expected synergies.
  • Assemble an IT Integration Program to conduct discovery and begin designing the technology end-state, while simultaneously identifying and delivering operational imperatives and quick-wins as soon as possible.
  • Following discovery, use this blueprint to build initiatives and put together an IT integration budget. The IT Integration Program has an obligation to explain the IT cost implications of the M&A to the business.
  • Once you have a clear understanding of the cost of your IT integration, use this blueprint to build a long-term action plan to achieve the planned technology end-state that best supports the business capabilities of the organization.

Make IT a Successful Partner in M&A Integration Research & Tools

Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should follow Info-Tech’s M&A IT integration methodology and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.

1. Launch the project

Define the business’s M&A goals, assemble an IT Integration Program, and select an IT integration posture that aligns with business M&A strategy.

2. Conduct discovery and design the technology end-state

Refine the current state of each IT domain in both organizations, and then design the end-state of each domain.

3. Initiate operational imperatives and quick-wins

Generate tactical operational imperatives and quick-wins, and then develop an interim action plan to maintain business function and capture synergies.

4. Develop an integration roadmap

Generate initiatives and put together a long-term action plan to achieve the planned technology end-state.

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About Info-Tech

Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.

We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.

What Is a Blueprint?

A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

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Get the help you need in this 4-phase advisory process. You'll receive 10 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.

Guided Implementation 1: Launch the project
  • Call 1: Introduce project steps and assess member fit
  • Call 2: Interpret business M&A objectives
  • Call 3: Select an aligned integration posture to guide the IT integration

Guided Implementation 2: Conduct discovery and design the technology end-state
  • Call 1: Determine the current state of each IT domain in the target organization
  • Call 2: Determine current state of each IT domain in your own organization
  • Call 3: Design the technology end-state of each IT domain

Guided Implementation 3: Initiate operational imperatives and quick-wins
  • Call 1: Highlight tactical focus areas to consider during discovery
  • Call 2: Build an action plan to deliver operational imperatives and quick-wins

Guided Implementation 4: Develop an integration roadmap
  • Call 1: Build initiatives to close gaps and redundancies between the end-state and current state
  • Call 2: Execute on roadmap

Authors

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