Post‑Merger Integration Playbook
A comprehensive 90-day playbook for post-merger integration. Cover operations, people, technology, and customer success to ensure a smooth transition and maximize value creation.
## Why Most Acquisitions Fail to Create Value, and What You Can Do About It The numbers are not flattering. McKinsey, BCG, Bain, and EY-Parthenon have all run their own versions of the same study over the last twenty years, and they keep arriving at the same answer. Between half and two-thirds of acquisitions fail to create real value for the acquirer. In the SME bracket, where integration teams are thin or non-existent and post-close advisors are usually long gone, my own experience puts the failure rate closer to seventy percent. The reason is rarely overpaying, although overpaying happens. …