Executives from IT and operations often aren’t included in the due-diligence process for M&A, so companies may not know enough about the costs and practical realities of integration. Companies can’t accurately forecast the savings from merged supply chains, for example, without understanding what’s required to integrate IT systems. Yet McKinsey’s work on postmerger management found that 50% to 60% of the initiatives intended to capture synergies are strongly related to IT. Source: HBR
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