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SUCCESSFUL RELATIONSHIP MANAGERS

 

In the 13 January Sourcing E-Mail Advisor, we made the point that companies need to plan for relationship management early in the transaction process, in order to facilitate a successful transition and set the tone for the first year. Once the transaction is concluded, it is essential to have the right relationship management leadership in place. What skills do such managers need to be successful?

Perhaps the most important thing we have learned from Y2000 is that we can successfully pull off a major project with a defined deadline and potentially catastrophic results for failure. However, in many cases, we did so by carefully defining a strategy that would provide success, and not biting off more than we could realistically chew.

COMPUTER ASSOCIATES ACQUIRES STERLING 23 February 2000 by Paul Harmon

On 14 February, it was announced that Computer Associates (CA) had agreed to acquire Sterling Software in a stock deal valued at $4 billion.