Pay more attention to people during M&A activity
17 August 2010
The expected upsurge in merger and acquisition activity, coupled with increasing job insecurity in the UK as a whole means that now, more than ever, executives involved in M&A activity need to pay early attention to human capital. Addressing people issues early in the due diligence process pre-empts problems before they have the potential to derail the integration or become a larger problem further down the line.
Lane4 have developed a merger integration model based on our M&A work with clients such as Safeway/Morrison and Thomson/First Choice. The model helps organisations to achieve and sustain high performance during major organisational change by focusing on five distinct phases of the M&A process, organisational readiness, due diligence, integration planning, integration management and review.
To read Adrian Moorhouse's article, from the Financial Times Non-Executive Directors' Club in full, download below.
2010-08-17