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Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures
Congratulations. You have invested significant effort performing your strategic plan, had firms complete the due diligence, review regulations, value and structure the deal, announce to the Street, and make promises of synergies and benefits. Now you have the daunting task knowing a massive percentage of deals fail to meet objectives, there are contractual penalties if execution is late, and you still need to run the business! We understand your situation and have been here before. Blue Cloud Innovation leverages best-in-class proprietary models combined with common sense, bringing seasoned professionals to be your solution owner for this complex initiative. Together, we will keep your timeline a reality and ensure your team is ready to sustain the new operating model.
“Day 1” Planning (a.k.a. Deal Close)
BCI enables seamless mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures by concentrating on key areas: business operations, technology, and human capital. Whether integrating an acquired organization, divesting part of the company, or establishing an independent entity, our comprehensive planning ensures a smooth transition so that you meet the deal’s timeline and financial goals.
We help your leadership with a proactive steering committee, a detailed roadmap, and effective resource allocation. BCI ensures everyone understands this is a business project, not merely an IT task. Our solution owners navigate complexities, engage Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), quickly identify complexities for each element of scope and propose options .
BCI enables seamless mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures by concentrating on key areas: business operations, technology, and human capital. Whether integrating an acquired organization, divesting a part of the company, or establishing a new independent entity, our meticulous planning drives a smooth transition, aligning with both your timeline and financial goals.
Minimizing Customer Disruption: Our organized integration roadmap prioritizes customer service continuity, accurate financial reporting, and IT system stability. Key milestones, timelines, and assigned responsibilities keep your team focused on maintaining high standards throughout the transition.
Post-Deal Integration
Foundation for Success: Process precedes technology. Together, we will create best-in-class end-to-end flows that identify needed changes for processes, roles, and technology. These foundational flows will help us quickly identify risks so we can rate the probability and impact, plus define contingencies and mitigation strategies. The steering committee stays engaged with reviews and leverages for informed go / no-go decisions.
Empowering Your Workforce: Human capital is literally the lifeblood of your organization. BCI brings the needed talent to help with cultural assessments, training, ensuring shared values to align the workforce, and importantly leadership development for your current and future leaders.
Quantifying and Tracking Synergies: The strategic deal promised benefits, and BCI has proven templates to quantify and track synergies. This effort addresses often overlooked potential savings as well as robust queries that help you create sustainable mechanisms to manage the increased scale of operations. Aspects cover your supply chain, assets, technology, services and contracts, and roles across the organization.
Streamlining Technical Integration and Data Management: Technical integration and data too often become quagmires that halt momentum and challenge benefits of the deal. BCI brings decades of experience rescuing stalled efforts, and we can help you prevent issues from the beginning. BCI’s proprietary model will allow quick identification of the landscape of apps, licenses, providers, equipment, etc. and equally important provide a process to identify data incongruencies. These efforts even include regulated platforms that require validation - the strictest scenario. After identification and prioritization comes the challenge of executing these changes, and BCI will be with you every step of the way. Handling difficult situations like replicating custom code versus migrating to standard is common (hint: only customize if it brings a competitive advantage), while ensuring the steering committee is efficiently engaged. Clarifying which role is responsible for cleansing/maintaining data and which is the system of record per element are important steps in the process. These actions lead to robust unit, string, integration, and regression testing that proves your readiness coupled with training.
Ready to Go Live?
BCI’s best practices in contingency planning and hypercare protocols to ensure a smooth go-live transition. Our robust tracking mechanisms measure performance, ensuring you meet and exceed the deal’s promised benefits.
From early planning through go-live, BCI provides you feedback mechanisms to ensure the team, and all stakeholders, stay engaged. This proves essential for post go-live activities so that you are prepared for continuous improvement and will exceed the deal’s expectations.
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