Post-Merger Integration Strategy & Transformation

Problem Statement – a Banking Client organisation was under a significant time pressure to complete the Integration of the acquired entity in order to realise the Synergy Cost Savings in order to justify the acquisition-value to shareholders.

This global Financial & Banking Organisation engaged us to develop & implement its ‘Post-Merger’ Integration Strategy, and Planning & Execution. We conducted a full review of the Client’s business requirements, people skills & capabilities, operating models & processes, applications, systems & integration, infrastructure, networks, security, and data centre

We identified opportunities for improvement, designed a programme of work to underpin the rollout & delivery, organisational structure, people skills & capabilities. We carefully conducted a comprehensive “Strategy Review & Audit” and made recommendations for improvements. Our Specific responsibilities & activities, included (this is just a short summary):

  • Definition & execution of the Client’s ‘Vision Strategy & Roadmap’, aligning technology with the client business needs.
  • Effectively performed a 360-degree strategic reviews, presenting recommendations to CLevel Executives, and setup the agreed programme for successes e.g. People, Processes,
    Systems/Tools.
  • Developed Digital ICT Strategies e.g. Post-merger Integration, Cloud & Data Centre Transformation, and Service Transition
  • Focused on enterprise architect development of operating models, including Oshore Outsourcing centres.
  • Led the development of multi-cloud Infrastructure Strategy & Architecture and Transformation & Transition Roadmap and detailed delivery plans.
  • Developed & coordinated large-scale Bid/ITT, vendor selection behalf of the Client.
  • Managed Vendor Contractual delivery assurance to agreed Governance, Price, KPIs, Milestones and managed scope-creeps.
  • Leadership of large resourcing pools of 1000+ staff with global remit, including internal & external staffing & partners.
  • Managed global tier-1 vendors/partners e.g. Oracle, SAP, Accenture, IBM, Microsoft, Deloitte, HP, SAP, Oracle, etc.
  • Tracked multi-vendor delivery progress and reported at C-Level Exec Board and Executive Stakeholders.

Successfully delivered large-scale Technology Transformation encompassing: Integration & Transition activities, and technology migration & consolidation including Oracle/ERP
Applications HR, Finance, Ecommerce, CRM/BI, DBs, BigData/MDM, Data Warehousing & Business intelligence, and Transformed 12 x global Data Centres.