Google’s Acquisition Bid for Groupon Takes Us to the New Reality On rare occasions a clearly spectacular and indicative acquisition bid gets underway. Google’s offer to Groupon for $6 billion is definitely in that very special number. A Groupon...
Seasons Greetings! I wish everyone a wonderful holiday season and an outstanding New Year in 2011! As you can see below, we are in a transition into a year of promising outcomes. Thanks for being part of the Beyond the Deal Newsletter community. We appreciate your...
Your newly emerging company should start with the capabilities it has been developing and then apply all six of the key springboards during integration implementation to transform it into a high performance, quantum leap company. The six springboards are: 1. Customer...
Dealing with Integration Issues in Southwest’s AirTran Acquisition Southwest Airlines is moving beyond its strategy of organic growth with its acquisition of AirTran. It went as far as it could go with the strategic model that it first sketched out in 1970 and needed...
M&A is Not a Strategy – Taking a Look at Intel We are indebted to Blogger Steve Cheney (Steve’s Blog: Thoughts on technology, business and strategy) for his very incisive statement concerning Intel’s recent major acquisitions of McAfee for $7.7 billion,...
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