Merger & Acquisition Planning, Integration & Cultural Due Diligence

Failure to build a shared culture and common way of working is one of the top three causes of failed merger or acquisition integration.

Global Integration can help you build the people capabilities to make your new, more complex merged organization work.

Our particular contribution can include:

• Best of both workshops to identify and honour the strengths of the legacy corporate cultures and to systematically identify what we want to protect or share from the merged or acquired organization.

• Training in cultural due diligence: how to diagnose and identify corporate and national cultural gaps between organizations, and how this may have an impact on merger and acquisition integration.

• Building common ways of working for merger and acquisition integration teams

• Coaching on how to make the best impact on the new partner organization

• Updating the management skills of the new organization to cope with new levels of complexity.

Case Study: Newell Rubbermaid

Growing primarily from a trail of successful acquisitions, the European arm of global manufacturer Newell Rubbermaid was quickly becoming a series of smaller, locally run companies. As Group President, Rubbermaid / IRWIN Group for Europe & Asia Pacific, Karl Kahofer identified a need to form highly effective single companies out of these diverse, smaller acquisitions.

Read more about what Global Integration has done for Newell Rubbermaid

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Whether you are planning a merger or acquisition or working on the integration of an existing one, contact Global Integration. You'll be pleased you did!