An exclusive Accenture research initiative demonstrates that
effective IT integration has a clear and positive impact on the financial
success of a merger or acquisition.   Our experience with hundreds of leading companies over
the past decade has repeatedly shown that integration and stabilization of the
Information Technology (IT) capability is a critical activity during a merger
or acquisition.
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Trust to help them through their merger process.
Now, this experience has been validated through an exclusive research
study into post-merger IT integration. Through interviews and analysis of
approximately 60 post M&A integration projects in North America and Europe,
we have identified what we hold to be the "keys to the kingdom"—a set of
practical and achievable imperatives that can lead to faster and more effective
integration of the IT capability, stabilizing its services and leading to
faster support for the business.
"Keys to the Kingdom" offers valuable insights into the success factors
for M&As. Although many studies look at M&As based on financial
measures, this study has validated an identifiable correlation between IT
integration success and overall merger success. Respondents who reported more
effective IT integration in three key areas—IT planning & management, IT
operations, and application delivery—were more likely to describe the overall
merger integration as a success. More important, as measured by our financial
rating scales, which included Return on Sales, Return on Assets, and Return on
Net Worth, more effective IT integration led to realizing more value from the
merger on the whole.
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