Merging Corporate Cultures — Blog

Aligning for M&A Success: The Power of Cultural Awareness and Early Integration Conversations

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are more than just strategic and financial moves aimed at goals like shareholder liquidity, diversifying revenue streams, increasing market share, achieving economies of scale, or entering new markets. M&A transactions deeply affect the people involved in both organizations, making it crucial to address the “human issues” with intention and care. This is vital to the overall success of the transaction.

This blog explores the critical aspects of merger integration planning, highlighting why it’s important to start these conversations before signing a letter of intent.

Yahoo Finance Visits CC

We are happy to share a fantastic video presented by Yahoo Finance entitled "How ‘conscious’ capitalism can be profitable and positive for the community" where Kip Tindell and Brittnay Merrill Underwood speak of the benefits of a conscious mindset in both business and social enterprises.

PE Heading in a New Direction

To succeed in a world where variables such as leadership, talent, culture, and reputation rival traditional financial performance and industry analysis, the industry needs new comparative benchmarks and tools to help make the intangible tangible.

Good Business

At EPOCH Pi we believe that in today's and even tomorrow's marketplace company's who have a purpose that includes doing some sort of good for the World and have a vision that includes focusing on that purpose, can not only do good, but they will have a higher probability of doing well financially.

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B Corps come with a Purpose, result in Profits

As more than one million fans gather in our great city to celebrate the Cavs victory, we celebrate the teams victory, the cities progress, and the state's social enterprise movement! After several years of study, the Ohio State Bar Association endorsed legislation that would create a new form of corporate entity in Ohio — the benefit corporation.

Millennials and Investment Bankers

Millennials and Investment banking seem to fit together a bit like a square peg in a round hole. Information about this new generation tells us that they take it all in and look at the big picture of life.

Making a Merger Work

An article posted in theMedical Device Business by mthibault on February 2, 2016 entitled Making a Merger Work, speaks specifically to mergers in the medical device and diagnostics industry, but the wisdom shared can be applied to all businesses.

The Culture Barrier - Can it be Broken?

We love that there are more articles on culture and integration issues published by the major consulting firms. That’s progress. This is an interesting piece from BCG who was writing about conscious business behavior long before it was in the popular press.

Is Culture Fit Really that Important?

In this article posted in Hoffpost Business's Blog, they reference studies that indicate that 70 - 90% of mergers and acquisitions result in what is considered a failure. And of those according to a McKinsey survey, 25% of executives say that the absence of a "culture fit" was the key reason why so many mergers fail! So the answer is yes.

M&A Success = Managing Employees

"Delivering a vision of seamless merger success requires discipline and expertise, apart from creating a culture of accountability and enthusiasm." Within this evolving climate, business leaders and managers must find better ways to integrate diverse corporate cultures without compromising on their primary goals.