Experience counts, whatever the scale
A succesful integration will bring together the best of both organisations. A well planned and executed IT integration will deliver substantial benefits. A large percentage of IT enabled synergies will take 18-24 months to fully realise. Long term efforts can include standardising and converging enterprise data and application platforms, eliminating organisational duplication and complexity. In the face of such complex projects it's understandable that senior management can gravitate towards efficiencies that can be achieved more rapidly. However challenging, post-merger IT integration always delivers significant benefits and no merger can truly work without it.
Xceed Consultants have played leading roles in some of the largest IT Integrations in the UK. With a wealth of experience from viewing numerous integrations across industries it's clear that senior management value working with people who have experience of complex integration activities. IT driven synergies deliver long-term benefits but require tremendous complexity to be achieved. The scale of one-off investment required can also be intimidating. Rationalising application portfolios, migrating customer data and products as well as building new capabilities that combine the best of both organisations are serious undertakings which carry operational, regulatory and reputational risk. Which is why it pays dividends to engage senior shapers and influencers who have been through it a number of times before and know what it takes to come out the other end with the benefits fully realised.
