Speed Dating in M&A: It Does Make Sense!
Submitted by Melissa Follis on Wed, 07/18/2018 - 15:13Balancing Competing Initiatives
By William Blandford, Managing Director at Blandford Associates and Member of The Board of M&A Standards
"Speed Dating" is defined as an organized process in which participants have one-on-one conversations, typically limited to less than ten minutes, for the purpose of getting to know others. I have used this "Speed Dating" process to identify and address the complex relationships among competing initiatives (referred to as interdependencies) with functional integration teams for acquisitions, especially in more complicated cases.