M&A Information Technology Best Practices (Wiley Finance) - Hardcover

Roehl-Anderson, Janice M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1118617576 ISBN 13: 9781118617571

Publisher: Wiley, 2013

Synopsis

Add value to your organization via the mergers & acquisitions IT function 

As part of Deloitte Consulting, one of the largest mergers and acquisitions (M&A) consulting practice in the world, author Janice Roehl-Anderson reveals in M&A Information Technology Best Practices how companies can effectively and efficiently address the IT aspects of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. Filled with best practices for implementing and maintaining systems, this book helps financial and technology executives in every field to add value to their mergers, acquisitions, and/or divestitures via the IT function. 

• Features a companion website containing checklists and templates
• Includes chapters written by Deloitte Consulting senior personnel
• Outlines best practices with pragmatic insights and proactive strategies 

Many M&As fail to meet their expectations. Be prepared to succeed with the thorough and proven guidance found in M&A Information Technology Best Practices. This one-stop resource allows participants in these deals to better understand the implications of what they need to do and how

About this title

About the Author

JANICE M. ROEHL-ANDERSON is a Principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP, coordinating key components of the M&A IT–related services area. She has been responsible for leading some of Deloitte's most complex global mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and initial public offering projects from a technology perspective. She has written numerous books on controllership and information technology and successfully passed the CPA exam.

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Praise for M&A Information Technology Best Practice

"Jan Roehl-Anderson and colleagues have done a superb job creating a guidebook for executives in an area where limited information exists how to leverage the IT function during a merger, an acquisition, or a divestiture. The book examines current trends and is loaded with practical examples. The book and related website are brimming with valuable blueprints, checklists, and case studies."
VALERIE BORTHWICK former Senior Vice President, Oracle Consulting

"Every once in a while, you come across a book that provides real-world, practical advice on an important business topic M&A Information Technology Best Practices is one of those gems. The twenty-plus years that Jan and her team have worked in the M&A IT space have provided valuable experiences and insights that can benefit a broad audience. This is a must-read for every business and IT executive who has or will be involved in a merger, acquisition, or divestiture effort."
MARK WALSH U.S. M&A Service Line Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP

"One of the most crucial components of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures is addressing the IT aspects of the deal. M&A Information Technology Best Practices walks the reader through IT situations that may be encountered during one of these transactions. By using this text, the prudent manager can help mitigate a key deal risk while increasing the probability of achieving a successful transaction. Highly recommended."
STEVEN BRAGG author of Accounting Best Practices

From the Inside Flap

M&A Information Technology

Best Practices

The mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transaction process is fraught with pitfalls and roadblocks that must be carefully navigated with skill and care to achieve the goal of one new, improved organization from two separate, distinctly different companies. Of all these pitfalls, the one that frequently poses the biggest challenge is how to plan for and execute post-merger information technology (IT) systems integration.

Refreshingly free of jargon, M&A Information Technology Best Practices serves as a guide to mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures for executives and their direct reports. Featuring contributions from industry leaders, this volume details ways to facilitate successful deals by appropriately leveraging the IT function throughout the transaction.

The best practices highlighted in this comprehensive manual offer need-to-know information concerning the IT aspects of deals, the role of IT during those deals, how business and IT strategy can be aligned during a deal, and key components of how IT needs to manage its operations during a deal.

With a companion website containing checklists for due diligence, integration and divestiture planning, and a detailed framework for a playbook on how to execute a deal from an IT perspective, this essential guide to IT best practices for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures explores:

• IT's role in mergers and acquisitions
• Aligning business and IT during mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures
• M&A IT strategy, approach, and governance
• IT due diligence leading practices
• IT infrastructure aspects of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures
• M&A IT and synergies
• Cloud considerations for M&A IT architecture
• Data implication of M&A
• Third-party contracts in M&A
• IT risk, security, and controls in M&A
• The role of the CIO and CFO
• Managing the people side of M&A IT
• IT program governance
• How to avoid an M&A failure

Its heavy reliance by executives in today's business environment makes IT a priority item in the M&A agenda. Filled with plain-English guidance, checklists, and cases, M&A Information Technology Best Practices is a playbook for M&A IT results.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118617576
• ISBN 13: 9781118617571
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576