Mergers and acquisitions represent a significant investment for organizations and the intense change that results can adversely affect delivery of ongoing business. The post-combination environment provides opportunities for developing new synergies by combining and maximizing each partner's market and operation strengths, but it is often difficult to realize these benefits when two cultures are combined.

Beyond the Blues in action

Successful post-merger integration is a matter of identifying these new and inherent opportunities, and developing a plan to capitalize on them. This allows the new organization to implement new practices, processes, and culture changes that would have been difficult or impossible had the combination not occurred.

MetaSystem Consulting Group's post-merger integration process often includes experiential work such as Beyond the Blues. The JP Morgan Chase and Bank One merger is a great example of how this experiential work can (link to below case study) move the newly created organization forward towards success as quickly as possible. This allows the new group to realize the synergies and strategic advantages that were the initial catalysts for the merger.

We help your new organization recognize its potential by:

• Facilitating the cultural transformation by identifying differences and reconciling them
• Building new teams
• Clarifying reporting lines, workload, rules of engagement, policies, roles and responsibilities, communication systems, work processes
• Defining best practices
• Building cross-functional relationships
• Identifying and addressing issues