Tag: Culture

What does your acquisition integration plan look like?
by Kathleen Pytleski
in Strategy
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What does your acquisition integration plan look like?

The statistics are depressing. One out of 5 mergers create value. 80-90% of acquisitions fail. 50% of acquisitions actually decrease value. So with that, why would you even consider entering into this pothole? Yet, day after day, companies enter into new agreements to acquire something, merge with someone or to be sold and hope for the best. If you’re the seller and you don’t have...

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It’s that time of the year again…
by Kathleen Pytleski
in Business Planning
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It’s that time of the year again…

Well, it’s that time of the year again when people are thinking about strategic and business planning for 2014 and beyond. Numbers are being crunched and most people are either being overly optimistic in their planning or sandbagging. You know who they are, those eager-beavers and those lay-in-the-weeds types. Of course, not every company’s process is the same. But I can tell you from experience,...

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