Client Story: $3.3B Acquisition - Post-Merger Integration (Product Life Cycle)

 Customer Overview

Global technology hardware manufacturing organization acquired an organization for $3.3B. Acquisition strategy focused on bundling products to provide customers comprehensive solutions.

 Challenge

The newly acquired Global Business Unit was expected to take an “adopt & go” integration approach. 800+ stakeholders across product, supply chain & manufacturing operations, engineering, and go-to-market teams needed to define and adopt the parent organization’s product lifecycle, while ensuring decreased impact to manufacturing and sales.

 Solution

• Facilitated workshop to develop integration plan & establish stakeholder teams

• Analyzed parent company product lifecycle.

• Conducted a gap analysis between parent and subsidy processes and roles & responsibilities.

• Developed the governance process and governance approval matrix.

• Revised templates and documentation supporting the product lifecycle process.

• Established a change champion network.

• Developed and rolled out training.

 Outcome

• Over 400 people attended the live training

• The subsidy organization immediately adopted the new product lifecycle and utilized the lifecycle for multiple active projects in the development portfolio

Skills Mapping

✅Post-Merger Integration Leadership

✅Organizational Change Management & Adoption Readiness

✅Portfolio Management

✅Stakeholder Management

✅Process Optimization

✅Technology Implementations