Mergers & Acquisitions

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 ------------------------------

I had a bad experience with a lack of sponsorship. I was the CM with a team for the merger of 2 large companies from different parts of the US. There were huge differences in culture and teams started having clashes almost from Day 1. The problem was ...

Hello Marilyn, Thank you for emphasizing that culture is the most critical factor in the success or failure of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). I completely agree that aligning values and ways of working is often the toughest but most vital part of ...