This book will provide the answers to the questions that senior level executives have about what are M&As and the steps involved. It provides basic guidelines and lessons for going through an M&A for the first time. It explains what the key events, processes, and issues that a buyer or seller must consider during a merger or acquisition. By using this book, executives can avoid costs and sometimes fatal mistakes and maximize the financial and operational value of the deal to their companies. Cha...
EAI and Web Services: Cutting the Cost of Enterprise Integration
by Martin Butler, Teresa Jones, Ian Charlesworth, Lois Hamilton, John Holden, Maxine Holt, Emma Jagger, and Tim Jennings
Unlock the Power of Partnerships to Achieve Exponential Growth In Partnering Success: The Force Multiplier to Achieve Exponential Growth, Theresa Caragol and the AchieveUnite team present a groundbreaking approach to building strategic alliances that drive innovation and success. This book guides readers through the transformative impact of trust, collaboration, and genuine partnerships in the modern business landscape. Through personal anecdotes, client experiences, and real-world case studie...
Have you ever wondered about the enigmatic world of consultancy and whether it might be the right fit for you? If the title 'consultant' has ever piqued your curiosity, then this book is your passport into that realm. Drawing from firsthand experience, the author takes us on a journey from initial skepticism to eventual admiration for consultants. With a memorable encounter as the pivot, she recalls an old colleague's dismissive description of consultants: "They ask you for your watch and then t...
Mergers and acquisitions are a fundamental part of the business landscape, yet over half fail to deliver on their objectives. Leading the Deal is the first essential step in boosting the probabilities of success, providing unique new insights into established strategies, and detailing the key psychological leverage points that allow leadership teams to effectively harness 'people power' in the M&A process. Leading the Deal supports leaders at each step in the M&A journey and reveals a clear pa...
A twenty-first-century update to the modern business classic . . . For more than fifteen years, this handy guide has provided entrepreneurs and small business owners with a simple, step-by-step plan for buying or selling a business-without their own special team of lawyers and accountants. Written by leading business attorney Robert Klueger, this up-to-date guide now includes everything you need to know about recent tax law changes, as well as an entirely new chapter on limited liability comp...
Providing practical application of best practices employed in the divestiture process, Corporate Divestitures provides you with detailed guidance on how your corporation should handle a divestiture. It provides a structured approach that emphasizes disciplined execution and illustrative documents and application aids that can be adapted for use in real-world situations.
To use a cliché, we live in a volatile uncertain complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world. Organizations simply cannot afford to try out new strategies in reality and correct mistakes, once they’ve occurred. The stakes are too high. Thus emerges the utility of this technique across functions like financial planning and risk management. Financial models help a business manager simulate the future and see the impact of their change, without risking costly setbacks of real world trials and errors. Maste...
This book provides managers and executives with the necessary tools and strategies for leading a company or division buyout. Successful management buyouts (MBOs) are the pinnacle of business success today and a great way to earn an ever-increasing stake in the American dream. Buyout explores the details of the entire buyout process and empowers managers to seize their destiny and take charge. Managers learn how to:Find a company to purchaseDevelop a business planNegotiate with the sellerWin th...
Media Mergers
The recent surge in media mergers has set off a wave of stories that all hit very close to home. In some cases, the news organizations themselves become news. The formation of communication conglomerates raises profound questions for reporters' lives and work, such as: What is the best way to cover stories of high profile and complexity? Will the new giants broaden both the definition of journalism and the opportunities for journalists to practice their craft? What are the prospects for the new...
The fascinating and complex evolutionary relationship of the monarch butterfly and the milkweed plant Monarch butterflies are one of nature's most recognizable creatures, known for their bright colors and epic annual migration from the United States and Canada to Mexico. Yet there is much more to the monarch than its distinctive presence and mythic journeying. In Monarchs and Milkweed, Anurag Agrawal presents a vivid investigation into how the monarch butterfly has evolved closely alongside the...
The Deal Paradox
by Dr Anna Faelten, Michel Driessen, and Professor Scott Moeller
The Deal Paradox explores what successful dealmaking looks like in the age of digital transformation, drawing on interviews with top dealmakers and M&A experts sharing their stories, triumphs, and challenges. Taking a dynamic storytelling approach, The Deal Paradox navigates the transition from traditional and ingrained methods to new techniques, showing how AI, big data, and machine learning can be used to generate new opportunities and enable diversity. It walks through the attributes and...
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS (The International Library of Critical Writings in Business History)
This important volume is a collection of the most significant research in business history on mergers and acquisitions. As well as laying the empirical groundwork for all future analyses, the articles selected are those which have changed our assumptions concerning the nature and role of mergers in the development of the modern corporate economy. The legislative attempts in North America and Europe to reverse the trend towards business concentration have also generated much scholarly work. Going...
Techniques for Successful Management Buy-outs (A Hawkesmere report)
by Ian Smith
Ian Smith's Techniques for Successful Management Buy-Outs identifies the various stages of management buy-outs, highlighting commercial calls to be made, stating benchmarks where appropriate and offering practical guidance on preparing for a management buy-out, sourcing funders and pricing MBOs, negotiating legal agreements and additional considerations for public sector deals.
Business Model Innovation (The Annals of Business Research)
There has been growing interest on business models among academics and practitioners in recent years, as business model describes how an organization creates, distributes and captures value and, therefore, can be considered the DNA of the organization. Recently, factors related to digital transformation, the vital role of sustainability and social aspects, along with an increasing globalization, have pushed towards radical transformations in business models. This book aims to further our knowl...
"Every CEO and Corporate Director who has been in the path of the 'WOW! GRAB IT!' acquisition locomotive should read this book!" -- Charles R. Shoemate, Chairman and CEO, Bestfoods With global acquisition activity running into the trillions of dollars, the acquisition alternative continues to be the favorite corporate growth strategy of this generation's executives. Unfortunately, creating shareholder value remains the most elusive outcome of these corporate strategies. After decades of rese...
Strategies for Writing a Restructuring Agreement for Both Creditor and Debtor (Executive Reports)