Beyond the Deal Blog:  Post Acquisition Integrations that Create Unprecedented Value

The Beyond the Deal Blog is geared to continually develop and renew a unique approach to create extraordinary value through acquisitions.  This approach is in our book, Beyond The Deal.   We work to use the BYD Blog to fill out and more fully explore key integration issues that are central to the post acquisition integration community.  The BYD Blog welcomes your interest and inputs to make that conversation as rich and useful as possible.

Why a Beyond the Deal Blog?

The BYD Blog explores how you can:
• Leverage M&A’s as strategic springboards for unprecedented performance and value creation gains
• Achieve those gains, with timely and updated information about how to make a major M&A work for you, from strategy setting through integration and culminating in your newly combined company
• Gain a network of sources and colleagues to help you meet the goals for an overall successful integration, not just on the “deal”
• Go beyond the focus on financial and physical resources by taking into account the intangible assets that are increasingly what makes the difference in enabling exceptional outcomes
• Put together the facts of your integration and develop responses to ever changing conditions, some expected and some very surprising
• Establish an expertise center for integrations

To accomplish these goals, the BYD Blog looks into:

• Appraisals of trends and issues in M&A’s
• Commentaries on developments in the field
• Interviews with leading players involved in acquisition integrations and
• Mini-case studies of both those organizations that use the full range of organizational capabilities for quantum leap outcomes, as well as firms that have not

We need to hear your comments about what your issues and concerns are.  There will be many exciting conversations shared here.  Participating in these conversations will enable you to generate unprecedented gains from your post acquisition integrations.