ECI has helped companies make a smooth transition after merger and acquision. Our studies have shown that the number one reason merger or acquisions fail is because the culture is never fully integrated. Company leaders often think that because they have introduced the cultural expectations to the new company members, that is sufficient for a well integrated culture to emerge.
People change when the pain of change is less than continuing to do things as they always did. So, in the case of cultural integration, some work needs to be done to disable old habits and preferences of the merging organizations, either to come to new consensus on what the culture will be, to impose one of the cultures on the whole organization, or to begin again to devise a new culture. There are no in-between strategies here, folks. This is one you have to make a decision around and then put the plan in place to make it happen. Read more…
