Posts Tagged ‘Metre22 Blog’
Does Your Innovation Center Create a Barrier to Success?
Sometimes what you want—and what you spend considerable time and money trying to achieve—is not what you get. This is especially true of innovation. The need to “be more innovative” has captured the attention of executives in almost every industry. And these executives have responded by building lots of innovation infrastructure within their companies. They…
Read More5 Signs You May Have Outgrown Your Structure
What Google’s Re-Org Teaches us About Strategy and Org Design Google recently announced a significant organization restructuring, creating a new holding company called Alphabet. The reorganization separates Google’s core internet business from smaller, ancillary growth efforts like their Life Science business (glucose-monitoring contact lenses) and Calico, an R&D effort focused on aging and related diseases.…
Read MoreAcquired? Don’t Let Your Behaviors Impede Integration
In our experience, realizing deal progress and creating value during a merger or acquisition is largely driven by the combined firm’s ability to make decisions and remove uncertainty quickly. However, a fair amount of the probability for deal success hinges on how people behave. This isn’t just true for how the buying company’s leaders act…
Read MorePursuing an Acquisition? How You Behave Makes a Difference
Too often even the most strategic, well-structured transactions that are appropriately valued get into trouble soon after the deal is signed. Integration grinds to a halt, frustrations rise and tempers flare. In our experience, realizing progress and results during a merger or acquisition is largely driven by the combined firm’s ability to make integration decisions…
Read MoreMaking Merger Day One a Success
As companies who are acquiring or merging approach their Day One – which we suggest defining as the first 1 to 5 days after transaction close – we think it important to remember that “opening moves cast long shadows” and can have impacts for months to come. Here are our views on a few potential…
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