2020-09-29T10:00:00-05:00 to 2020-09-29T11:00:00-05:00
Essentials for IT Effectiveness Across the Entire M&A Lifecycle
Pick your metaphor for IT M&A…the “long pole in the tent”; critical path; synergy trap; sinkhole, disaster. You’ve heard them all. Don’t you think it’s now time to hear more about how to get IT M&A right than wrong? Join this expert IT M&A panel for a lively discussion of what works, the lessons learned, and practical insights for truly successful IT M&A at each phase of the M&A lifecycle. Topics include:
- Building and Sustaining IT M&A Readiness
- Phase 1: Strategy and Targeting - Getting “read-in” right from the start; getting a seat at the table
- Phase 2: DD: IT priorities for Diligence
- Phase 3: Pre-Announce. Strat Framework, Discovery
- Phase 4: Pre-Close. Preparing for Day 1 Requirements
- Phase 5: Post-Close. Day 100 planning / execution; governance
- Phase 6: Long-term Value Creation: IT Roadmap, IT optimization/consolidation; supporting key business initiatives
Based on and extracted from the M&A Leadership Council’s newest online training program, the Art of M&A IT Effectiveness, you will learn practical take-aways for your executive and deal team, your IMO/DMO, work-stream leaders, and of course, your IT team!