9. • More Customers for your Services
• More Services for your Customers
• Added Capacity and Capability
• Expansion into new Territory
• Increased Cost Efficiencies
• Defense, Duress, Distress
Why Acquisitions?
10. • Identify acquisition candidate.
• Begin negotiation.
• Complete diligence evaluation.
• Complete negotiation.
• Close on transaction -- deal team celebrates!
• Pass out transaction bonuses! (Woohoo!)
• Hand off to “Operations.”
• ASSUME performance.
Typical Acquisition
11. • 50-70% failure rate – WHY?
• Assume it will ALWAYS:
be harder than you think,
take longer than you think,
cost more than you think, and
generate less than you think.
• JPO Rule: Success = T+50%, C+30%, R-20%
“Whoops! What Happened?”
14. “In Business Culture, people issues are the
most significant challenge.”
• Organizational Cultural Differences 50%
• Human Capital Integration Issues 35%
• Financial Reporting Integration Issues 23%
• IT/Systems Integration Issues 21%
• Lack of Employee Engagement 16%
• Leadership / Management Retention 16%
Source: Economist Intelligence Unit
Most Significant Transaction Issues
15. • Glaringly apparent that culture is important!
Everyone reluctant to jump into an ECA
without knowing what results would be, but
you never actually know until you do it.
• ID clashes between culture archetypes,
orientation, language, symbols of authority,
respect for management / leadership, and
compliance.
• Characterizing culture is not an outcome,
but an integral piece of integration process,
and should be key in diligence efforts.
Executive Culture Assessment
17. • Identify acquisition candidate.
• Begin communication and negotiation.
• Initiate Executive Culture Assessment.
• Initiate Integration planning.
• Complete diligence evaluation.
• Complete negotiation.
• Close on transaction -- deal team celebrates!
A-typical Acquisition
18. • Pass out transaction bonuses … ~!
• Implement Integration Plan.
• Hand off TRANSITION to “Operations.”
• Assume ASSURE performance!
A-typical Acquisition
19. • Functional:
- Focuses on cost-efficiency, “back-office” synergies
- IT, HR, Legal, Procurement, Treasury, Tax, HSE
• Strategic:
- Focuses on value, business expansion, “upside”
- New markets, regions, sectors, customers
• Compliance:
- Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC, FCPA, other regulatory
Functional vs. Strategic
20. 1. Integration isn’t a step; it’s a process.
2. Integration management is a full-time job.
3. Communication is critical.
4. Faster is better, even when it’s not perfect.
5. Success requires attention to culture.
Five Simple Rules
21. • Power and authority are better exercised
and received when those being directed feel
they have been heard.
• “People with power behave with the same
insensitivity and impulsivity as someone
with frontal lobe brain damage, making them
prone to act abusively and lose the esteem
of their peers.”– Dr. Dacher Keltner,
U/California-Berkeley
Empathy and Authority
22. • The more successful you become, the more
important it is to remain empathic.
• You can manage by mandate, but you can
only lead by example.
• The higher you rise in your career, the more
fundamental the fundamentals become.
“What does this mean for YOU?”
23. • Culture is addressed early on.
• Best people are selected to lead combined
entity.
• Integration focuses on value.
• Leaders communicate extensively.
• Measures of success are established and
tracked.
• Integration plans are in place before deal is
closed.
Top 10: Reasons Why Integrations Succeed
24. • Approach is tailored to the deal’s strategic
rationale.
• Management is in place before deal is
announced.
• Majority of employees are focused on base
business.
• Speed is valued above perfection.
Source: Bain & Company
25. • Appoint a strong executive to clearly lead the
integration process.
• Compress change duration by taking bold
strokes early.
• Provide real incentives to reach targets.
• Set out credible milestones and maintain
pressure for progress.
• Move quickly regarding personnel changes.
• Build robust plan detailing integration activity.
Top 10: Integration Best Practices
26. • Emphasize transfer of critical capabilities to
capture value.
• Ensure senior management involvement in
integration activities.
• Adopt best practices in key functions from
either company.
• Get task forces with people from both
companies interacting soon.
Source: Booz, Allen & Hamilton
27. For every $1 spent on SAFETY, $3-6 is saved.
Those who discount SAFETY simply haven’t
paid the price for NOT doing it … YET!
SAFETY is a culture. Do it for:
• Conformance – your customer asked you.
• Compliance – your regulatory obligation.
• Convenience – it’s easier than recovering
your reputation when you don’t!
• Contribution – it adds to your bottom line!
Some Notes on SAFETY
30. • The following slides were not presented in
San Antonio, but add to the topic.
• Questions and comments are welcome:
OFC: 832-532-7852
jpoxer@mcdhp.com
http://www.mcdhp.com
31. • Integration is a process, not a phase.
• Integration management is a distinct
business function.
• Decision delays re: career-affecting aspects
immediately drain value.
• Meld functions and culture by addressing
new opportunities together.
Source: GE Capital / Harvard Business Review
Lessons Learned
32. • Humans Are Underrated, Geoff Colvin (2015)
• Emotional Intelligence, Dan Goleman (1995)
• Good to Great, Jim Collins (1991)
• “Making the Deal Real – How GE Capital
Integrates Acquisitions,” by R. Ashkenas, L.
DeMonaco, S. Francis; HBR (Reprint 98101).
• “The Impact of Culture on Mergers &
Acquisitions,” by G. Gitelson, J. Bing, L.
Laroche; CMA Management, March 2001.
Additional Resources
33. Screen for Intelligence.
Interview for Attitude.
Select for Capacity.
Train for Skill.
Compensate for Performance.
Promote for Leadership.
A-typical Interview / Hiring / Training Process
