Mergers and acquisitions shake everything at once: roles, reporting lines, expectations, and identity.
At BusinessTechné, we help founders and leaders understand their next steps and navigate the business and cultural shifts that determine a successful M&A.
The integration period has several challenges for both the old and new company. Yet the biggest is what do we do with the founder? A founder’s support in transitioning the old to the new is invaluable. How they do that, is an art. We help founders understand the shift in their identity and roles and determine a roadmap where they can use their historical knowledge to serve the new organization’s leadership and their team.
Founders often struggle with their loss of power and position in these integrations. We help them find a voice and a productive path forward. Founders who understand their unique opportunity to successfully integrate their company into a new organization finish well what they began when they started their business.
Culture is the thread that either pulls two organizations together or slowly unravels them, and it is why nearly 70% of all M&As fail. Research shows that companies that manage culture intentionally during integration are far more likely to meet their integration goals. While due diligence identifies cultural alignments and differences, the resolution of them is vital to the success of the new organization.
Running a business is challenging enough. Integrating a new organization strains everything. Differences in culture can disrupt daily operations through miscommunication, misaligned values, and breakdowns in trust. Our approach creates a roadmap for cultural alignment so leaders can guide their teams through change with confidence, compassion, and direction.
We help leaders, post due diligence, identify strategies to provide alignment of cultural predictions, norms, values, and operating principles.
We enable leaders to identify essential priorities and align practical workflows and team interactions to create efficiency and effectiveness when making changes in the organization.
We provide stability through change by helping leaders clarify roles, expectations, responsibilities, and organizational structure to serve the new organization's agenda.
Every M&A brings unique challenges. We partner with leaders to clarify, influence priorities, and navigate essential changes to organizational story, cultural impact, and brand promise as they step into new, unchartered territory.
“Companies that manage culture effectively in their integration planning are around 50% more likely to meet or exceed their integration targets across both cost and revenue synergies.”
– McKinsey & Company — The Importance of Cultural Integration in M&A