Make culture integration a part of mergers and acquisitions to:
Streamline the development and management of the new company.
Align your teams quickly and reduce the confusion that can set in after an acquisition.
Achieve business results, whether you’re assimilating the newly acquired organization’s culture or allowing it to continue independently post-merger.
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It’s up to the leadership teams of both companies to design a culture that ensures the new organization delivers desired results.
Gain insights on what’s key to a thriving culture:
Deliver clarity around your company culture: Avoid the lasting negative impacts of cultural misalignment.
Define the cultural framework—implementation, assimilation, correlation, or co-creation: Integrate culture to best fit the new organizational structure.
Establish shared goals: Address the needs of the combined entity while preventing conflicting priorities that derail results.
Assess company culture within the two organizations you’re integrating: Identify cultural gaps or disruptions that may emerge post-integration.
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