Day 1, 100 days, and beyond
Post-Merger Integration
Sequencing, governance, and the workstreams that determine whether the value-creation plan survives contact with reality after close.
8 min · vc, corp-dev, corp-finance, strategic
The Day 1 Readiness Plan
What absolutely has to work on Day 1 of an acquisition — comms, payroll, access, customer contracts — and what can wait until Week 2.
8 min · vc, corp-dev, corp-finance, strategic
Building the 100-Day Integration Plan
How to scope, sequence, and govern the first 100 days post-close so that integration momentum survives the inevitable surprises.
8 min · vc, corp-dev, corp-finance, strategic
The Technology Integration Roadmap
Sequencing identity, network, core systems, and data integration in the post-close period — and why ambitious tech consolidation plans almost always slip.
8 min · vc, corp-dev, corp-finance, strategic
Cultural Integration Playbook
Why most cultural integration efforts fail by treating culture as a workshop problem, and what actually moves the needle in the first six months.
8 min · vc, corp-dev, corp-finance, strategic
Designing a Retention Plan for Key Engineers
How to identify, structure, and communicate retention packages for the engineers whose departure would derail the value-creation plan.
8 min · vc, corp-dev, corp-finance, strategic
The PMI Communications Plan
Sequencing internal, customer, and external announcements in the days and weeks around close — and the comms mistakes that cost integrations dear.
8 min · vc, corp-dev, corp-finance, strategic
Tracking Synergies Honestly
Why most synergy tracking devolves into theatre, and the governance model that keeps cost and revenue synergy realisation on the rails.
8 min · vc, corp-dev, corp-finance, strategic
Cross-Border PMI Considerations
The legal entity, tax, employment, and operating-model questions that cross-border integrations create — and the sequence in which to answer them.
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