Mergers & Acquistions:
Growth without growing pains

The number of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in business and government continue to grow each year. While offering remarkable benefits, they pose serious management, culture and integration challenges.

SiloSmashers provides a range of services to make M&A transitions fast and smooth – and help you ensure Peak Performance® and maximum value from your newly integrated organization.

Collaborative Transition Process

Our accelerated, structured approach to complex M&As focuses on:

• Preserving value from legacy organizations and assets
• Obtaining bottom-line results to create the Peak Performing Enterprise envisioned in the merger or acquisition

 
Drawing on SiloSmashers core capabilities, our innovative Collaboration Transition process includes:

• Executive Alignment and Strategy Formulation – creating a common understanding and vision of the new organization
• Communication – stabilizing the organization and gaining stakeholder buy-in
• Culture Assessment and Alignment – identifying and defusing potential trouble spots and defining the behaviors needed in the new organization
• Value Driver Analysis – focusing management on identifying and implementing the best opportunities for creating value from the combined skills, capabilities and assets of the merging organizations
• Transition Planning – collaborating with key managers in developing detailed transition plans for implementing the value drivers
• Organizational Assessment and Design – developing the optimal organizational design for achieving the goals of the M&A strategy and the benefits of the value drivers
• Workforce Assessment – ensuring that you have the right people with the right skills to achieve the mission and strategic goals of the new organization.
• Project Management – providing a project management office to establish a disciplined process for overseeing implementation and tracking success
• Metrics – developing and implementing performance metrics for measuring the success of the M&A

Collaboration Is Critical

The recognized expertise of SiloSmashers in collaboration and facilitation is invaluable to effective M&As. Integrating and realigning two distinct cultures, workforces, organizations and IT environments is a transformational process that requires the support, talents and ideas of everyone involved.

SiloSmashers solutions enable you to build the integrated – and motivated – team needed to drive your M&A’s success.