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Adventures in M&A Wonderland

by Charles W. Butler and Gary L. Richardson

The rapidly changing domestic and international business environment has produced numerous mergers and acquisitions. Companies acquire or merge with other companies for specific business reasons, anticipating savings from the economies of scale associated with eliminating or integrating redundant systems. Since the prevailing business strategy is to grow both market share and global presence, M&As are often incubated and given life in a very short time frame. Thus, the challenge for today's CIO is how to proceed rapidly through the associated system integration. In order to accomplish this challenge, the CIO must:

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Adventures in M&A Wonderland October 2005

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