Assessing Integration Risk Consulting Service

Identifying and assessing integration risks are essential to the success of merger integration. There are many “usual” risks and many risks unique to any specific merger integration project.

Leadership is typically most concerned with future financial performance, future operational performance, key personnel, customer retention, and potential cultural risks and conflict.

Organizational culture and cultural change are particularly challenging. Critical cultural change issues must be addressed head on – quickly and clearly. No tiptoeing or equivocating on this one!

Assessing integration risk is accomplished in weeks rather than months!

Consulting Approach and Deliverables

Working with your team, we provide our deep merger integration experience and expertise, including best practice tools, techniques, and methods, to facilitate high-intensity, short-duration, sprints to rapidly and accurately identify and assess merger integration risks.

Deliverables include:

A structured deep dive into the most common integration risks.
Capture of integration risks and contingency plans.
Identification of the critical “Day 1” activities and risks.
Identification of key risk mitigation strategies.

Cultural due diligence, operating style analysis and cultural assessment.
Identification of cultural integration strategies.

Who from your team should participate?

Positioning the integration team for success typically includes a balanced mix of decision makers responsible for leading the post-merger integration as well as functional personnel within each layer of the organization who are expected to play a key part in the integration plus any additional stakeholders that can provide additional insights into expected integration risks and cultural integration concerns.