SUCCESSFUL MERGERS ACQUISITIONS AND STRATEGIC ALLIANCES GANCEL C. Księgarnia

Successful Mergers, Acquisitions and Strategic Alliances

How to Bridge Corporate Culture

Charles Gancel, Irene Rodgers and Marc Raynaud are managing partners of ICM, Inter Cultural Management Associates, an international management consulting firm that helps executive boards, managers and teams bridge cultures and successfully manage change across cultural boundaries.

The authors have worked with companies across Northern, Continental and Eastern Europe, the United States, Canada, Africa and the Far East. They have an extensive client list including:

Air France, Airbus, Alcan, BSN, Cables Pirelli, Chronopost, Delta, Electricite de France, EADS, ExxonMobil, France Telecom, Gaz de France, Genzyme, Heineken, Hewlett Packard, IBM, L'Oreal, Matra, Norsk Hydro, Rexam, Rubbermaid, sanofi-synthelabo, TotalFinaElf, Thomson Broadcast, Union Chimique Beige, Valeo, Vivendi Universal and Volvo.

All three authors speak widely on the topic of mergers and acquisitions. Recent conference events include Management Centre Europe, The Conference Board, Conference Centre Hong Kong, IABC International Conference and ESSCA Business School. They also regularly publish articles in a range of European newspapers and journals.

WHY DO THE MAJORITY OF MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS AND OTHER ALLIANCES FAIL TO ATTAIN THE SYNERGIES AND FINANCIAL GAINS PREDICTED AT THE START?

The impact of cultural differences on a company's ability to generate value in times of mergers, acquisitions, and alliances is no longer up for question. Difficulties can emerge from national, corporate, business or functional cultures. This book is your essential guide to understanding, analysing and acting on cultural differences.

The book provides a unique and pragmatic diagnostic model - the Culture Bridging Fundamentals (CBF), which provides practical help to senior executives and their advisors. It is based on 18 years' experience consulting with Fortune 500 companies. The result is a proven approach to achieving the positive predicted outcomes of an alliance.

The model provides managers with a diagnostic tool and a common language allowing them to pinpoint the different operational issues that exist within organisations with different corporate culturds. These issues surface more sharply when national cultural differences are involved, but they also arise in alliances between different companies within the same country and the same sector.

Featuring interviews with senior executives across Europe, America and South East Asia, the book provides anecdotes and critical incidents to illustrate the CBF model and its benefits. It also proposes an overall approach to managing post merger or acquisition integration and change processes. In particular, this book will help readers to:

set out a strategy for their change/integration process
significantly reduce the change/integration cycle time
ensure the change/integration process continually supports business objectives
better manage the "emotional" dimension of such events thus reducing the incidents of internal conflicts
reassure key people in the early stages thereby helping to retain the company's best talent.

228 pages

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