Bringing a strategy to life – and accelerating value creation – often requires new skills, expended market access, and stopping some things while starting others. Transactions are a key lever, but more than half of deals destroy value. What does it take to unlock potential?​The fusion of two or more companies is an inflection point in their shared history. Bringing together two organizations, each with its own processes, structure, culture, and management – is profoundly complex.​To succeed, a Post Merge Integration must achieve four fundamentally different objectives:1. Maintain momentum in the ongoing businesses2. Maximize and accelerate synergies and value creation3. Build the organization and align the cultures to drive the new company forward4. Use the combined capabilities to advance the company’s competitive position​When companies and cultures come together, fresh challenges are sure to arise. Every merger or acquisition has a significant impact on and opportunity to enhance business performance. Execute poorly and you’ll struggle with wheel-spinning decision making, operations that sputter, processes that don’t quite work, and employees who live with the challenges of inefficiency and cultural friction every day of their work lives.​We help our clients succeed by combining deep industry and business strategy knowledge with comprehensive value delivery capabilities and expertise, thus accelerating and maximizing value creation throughout the deal and the PMI process.