IT represents the largest investment, most potential risk and complexities, and also bottom-line business benefits in the execution of a successful integration. Because IT touches all other functional areas, an M&A integration cannot be completed until all the elements of the IT integration have been addressed. It is important that key M&A integration project leaders become more knowledgeable about managing and leveraging this critical component in the overall M&A integration; business activities and priorities must be linked with those in IT throughout the process. Based on the tight linkage needed between the business integration leaders and their senior IT partners, we recommend joint attendance of both at this deep dive IT integration session.
