Mergers and acquisitions: success starts with transparency

January 10, 2019

Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity is rapidly on the rise. The value of global M&A deals was predicted to increase from $3.66 trillion in 2017 to $4.4 trillion in 2018.1 At the same time, failure rates for M&A deals are alarmingly high according to an article in the Harvard Business Review, 70-90% of M&A deals are “abysmal failures. ”Why is there such a gap between what we expect from M&As and what we actually get? Many executives pin the root cause of M&A failure on IT integration.

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