Mergers & Acquisitions Integration Handbook: Helping Companies Realize The Full Value of Acquisitions

Index

Accounting and finance

complexity of

executing integration plan and

financial information documents

Acquisitions, defined

Agreement (employment) documentation

Audience, communication with. See Communication planning

Benefit plan documentation

Book, organization of

Business case

challenges of integration and

complex activities and

for integration support

integration success and

to improve performance

Business growth, talent assessment criteria and

Business management, talent assessment criteria

Business plans

due diligence and

executing integration plan and

Bylaws

Change management, culture and

Charters

due diligence phase

setting up an integration project charter

Chief operating officers (COO)

Clean-room planning

Closing dates, pre-planning for

Collaboration software

Communication planning

complexity of

executing integration plan and (See also Execution)

feedback for

generally

information transfer and cultural integration

matrix

objectives

pre-planning phase and

principles

process

See also Marketing

Company politics, avoiding

Complexity, assessing See also Integration assessment; Risk assessment

Conflict resolution

Consultants, working with

Contingent liability documents

Contracts, due diligence phase

Corporate books and records

Costs to achieve (CTAs)

Cross-functional dependencies

Cross-selling

CTAP. See Cultural integration; Talent assessment process

Cultural integration

communication planning and

complexity of

culture and change management

executing integration plan ...