Successfully Integrating Two Businesses
Successfully Integrating Two Businesses

Author: Hans J. C. Bakker

Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780566083686

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Every year the volume and size of deals for mergers, acquisitions and internal integration projects increases and yet research shows that 50-80% of these ultimately fail. This book will assist senior managers to deal more effectively with the realisation of business integration and by doing so, improve the quality and enhance the success of such ventures. Each of the three main sections of the book - decision-making, planning and control, and the people-related aspects of integration - are approached in the same way - an overview of how the issue is handled in a number of companies; best practice in handling the issue; a framework in which the best practices have been used to arrive at a consistent approach. (The 15 companies involved include Sara Lee/Douwe Egberts (food), Exxon Benelux (chemical industry), Delft Instruments (industrial manufacturing), and Texaco.)

M&A Integration
M&A Integration

Author: Danny A. Davis

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-09-14

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1118361253

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Most firms of a certain size will turn to Mergers & Acquisitions in their search for growth, forcing almost all managers to face up to the challenge of integration at some point in their career. For many managers it is often their first and only time, and M&A integration is high on the list of things that many managers need to learn more about. According to many studies, 50 to 75% M&A transactions fail to deliver their expected value. One of the main reasons for failure is late or wrong integration, or bad integration management. There is a significant demand for more information on best practice in Post-Merger Integration. This book intends to equip those managers for the task... Danny A. Davis demonstrates how to handle the post-merger integration process and show how to restructure, consolidate, reduce costs, create efficiencies and perform M&A, from smaller transactions to mega-mergers. The focus is on integration planning and delivery. The book combines a general/strategic view with detailed information on how to actually conduct M&A Integration via very practical tools and check lists that will prove essential during pre-deal M&A integration planning and Post deal delivery, as well as to ensure their success.

Building the Integrated Company
Building the Integrated Company

Author: Malcolm A. Birkin

Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780566079504

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A practical, readable guide to management in the 21st century, built around a series of 13 detailed and scored questionnaires, containing over 240 individual questions, enabling the reader to assess every aspect of their business, from management focus to the behaviours of the workforce, against the Integrated Company model.

Due Diligence
Due Diligence

Author: Peter Howson

Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780566085246

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How can you be sure you are buying the company you think you are? Are you sure it is as good as the seller says? How can you be certain unexpected costs and obligations will not suddenly appear once you are the owner and responsible for them? Have you worked out precisely what you are going to do with it once it is yours? How best can you arm yourself for the negotiations? The answer to all these questions, and many more, lies with effective due diligence. Due diligence is one of the most important but least well understood aspects of the acquisition process. This book is a comprehensive manual on getting due diligence right. It is a uniquely comprehensive guide, covering all aspects of the process from financial, legal and commercial due diligence right through to environmental and intellectual property due diligence. There are also useful chapters on working with advisers and project managing the work. It also includes a number of checklists to help ensure that the right questions are asked. Written in a clear and accessible style, with plenty of case studies and from a no-nonsense commercial perspective, this book provides expert guidance for executives, senior managers and anybody else contemplating or working on an acquisition.

The Imagination Machine
The Imagination Machine

Author: Martin Reeves

Publisher: Harvard Business Press

Published: 2021-06-08

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1647820871

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A guide for mining the imagination to find powerful new ways to succeed. We need imagination now more than ever—to find new opportunities, rethink our businesses, and discover paths to growth. Yet too many companies have lost their ability to imagine. What is this mysterious capacity? How does imagination work? And how can organizations keep it alive and harness it in a systematic way? The Imagination Machine answers these questions and more. Drawing on the experience and insights of CEOs across several industries, as well as lessons from neuroscience, computer science, psychology, and philosophy, Martin Reeves of Boston Consulting Group's Henderson Institute and Jack Fuller, an expert in neuroscience, provide a fascinating look into the mechanics of imagination and lay out a process for creating ideas and bringing them to life: The Seduction: How to open yourself up to surprises The Idea: How to generate new ideas The Collision: How to rethink your idea based on real-world feedback The Epidemic: How to spread an evolving idea to others The New Ordinary: How to turn your novel idea into an accepted reality The Encore: How to repeat the process—again and again. Imagination is one of the least understood but most crucial ingredients of success. It's what makes the difference between an incremental change and the kinds of pivots and paradigm shifts that are essential to transformation—especially during a crisis. The Imagination Machine is the guide you need to demystify and operationalize this powerful human capacity, to inject new life into your company, and to head into unknown territory with the right tools at your disposal.

Strategic Thinking
Strategic Thinking

Author: Irene M. Duhaime

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-03-22

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1136663320

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There are many strategy books available in the marketplace for today’s student or business professional; most of them view strategy from the 10,000 foot level, while Strategic Thinking looks at this important business topic through a different lens. Written from the perspective of a manager, this book builds on theories of managerial and organizational cognition that have had a powerful influence on many business fields over the last two decades. As other books on business policy and strategy cover a broad range of topics, models, frameworks, and theories, the unique feature of this book is that it covers all this, but also focuses on how managers of business firms understand their business environments, assess and marshal their firms’ resources, and strive for advantage in the competitive marketplace. It examines the economic, structural, and managerial explanations for firm performance. Offering professors and business people who are intrigued by the ideas introduced in Peter Senge’s books ways to apply those ideas and principles in the classroom and in the companies in which they work, the book puts managers front and center.

Post-Merger Management
Post-Merger Management

Author: Kirsten Meynerts-Stiller

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2019-10-08

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1838674519

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This book pools the current know-how, and closes important knowledge gaps, to offer hands-on advice and practical answers to the many 'how to' questions relating to merger implementation. It provides a crucially important understanding of how to assess the chances of realising synergy potential and evaluate integration risks.

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology

Author: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour

Publisher: IGI Global Snippet

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 4292

ISBN-13: 9781605660264

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"This set of books represents a detailed compendium of authoritative, research-based entries that define the contemporary state of knowledge on technology"--Provided by publisher.

Post-Merger Management
Post-Merger Management

Author: Kirsten Meynerts-Stiller

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2019-10-08

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1838674535

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This book pools the current know-how, and closes important knowledge gaps, to offer hands-on advice and practical answers to the many 'how to' questions relating to merger implementation. It provides a crucially important understanding of how to assess the chances of realising synergy potential and evaluate integration risks.