Mergers & Acquisitions

You are up for a challenge, where convincing the management teams of the importance of the steps you know are needed becomes the biggest part of your job. That's my honest assumption of the situation. Until now you've seen enough of these to conclude ...

You have been brought on to be the CM for the merger of 2 medium sized companies (arbitrarily less than 5000 employees each). Assume no one in either management team has ever been through this before. Where do you start? What are your key questions? ...

In divestitures, if the company being divested invests in the employees whose jobs will be redundant and provides counselling, re-training and placement assistance, morale remains good enough to get through the divestiture without too much disruption. ...

Hi Frank - In recent experience - I have found that one of the most interesting things I have observed is challenges with sponsorship. Indeed, it could be argued that in many organizational changes there are challenges with active/visible sponsorship, ...

Where does the Change Management function sit in your organization? Is the Lead a contractor or employee? To whom do they report? Is it matrixed? Is it a position on the Org chart with a career path? Do you see Change Management as a position ...

Is merging documents, SOP's and other various documents typically come within the purview of your Change effort? ------------------------------ Frank Gorman, Former ACMP Board Member, Transformation Consultant ------------------------------