Mergers & Acquisitions Consulting
Maximise Synergy and Minimise Disruption in IT Integrations
Mergers and acquisitions bring significant opportunities, but they also pose considerable risks, particularly in IT integration. Without the right strategic guidance, businesses can face delays, data losses, and operational chaos. Saros Consulting offers specialised M&A advisory services focused on IT strategy, due diligence, and integration planning, ensuring your transactions deliver their intended value.
We help you navigate the IT and organisational complexities, ensuring that your integration is seamless and value-driven
IT Due Diligence
Merging IT environments during an M&A can present challenges such as compatibility issues, redundant systems, and data integrity concerns. At Saros Consulting, we conduct thorough IT due diligence to identify potential risks and opportunities across both organisations. Our approach includes creating strategic integration plans that address these challenges and ensure systems, applications, and data are seamlessly combined without disrupting operations. We help assess current IT infrastructures, define detailed integration roadmaps, and recommend best-fit vendors, for a smooth and successful merger.
Driving Operational Synergy
M&A activities can create uncertainty and operational disruption if not managed carefully. Saros Consulting works with your leadership and teams to plan for business continuity throughout the transaction. We guide you in establishing communication strategies, aligning stakeholders, and implementing phased transitions to minimise disruptions and maintain operational stability, even during significant organisational changes.
Successful Data Migration
Successful data migration is critical during M&As but fraught with risks like data loss, corruption, or unauthorised access. Saros Consulting offers advisory on planning and executing secure data migrations that maintain data integrity and comply with regulatory requirements. We provide strategic oversight on data governance, mapping, and validation processes, ensuring that your data assets are effectively transferred and aligned with your new business structure.
Effective Governance Frameworks
Establishing clear governance structures during an M&A is crucial to avoid confusion, misaligned priorities, and conflicting decisions. Integrating two organisations often means blending different governance models, hierarchies, and decision-making processes. Saros Consulting provides guidance on designing effective governance frameworks that promote clarity. We advise on establishing joint committees, redefining roles, and ensuring alignment between IT and business leaders across both organisations to facilitate a smooth governance transition.
How We Can Help You
The IT components of an M&A are often the most complex and critical to the overall success of the deal. Saros Consulting focuses on the strategic IT aspects of M&A, from integration planning and data migration to governance and risk management. We provide independent advisory on navigating the IT and organisational complexities, ensuring that your integration is seamless and value-driven. Our expertise ensures that your IT systems are seamlessly aligned, secure, and fully integrated, enabling your organisation to realise the full value of the merger while minimising disruption and maximising operational efficiency.
Case Study
Certa
Maximising Efficiency in the Energy Sector
One of Ireland’s largest energy companies was going through transformational change through the confluence of numerous energy brands and product diversification. This transformation has resulted in several large projects key to strategic success as well as numerous operational improvement initiatives driving business efficiencies. Through the process of rebranding, the management team recognised the need to establish project management as a practice to enable a more structured approach to managing multiple projects simultaneously as the organisation integrates and grows.
Case Study
Certa
Low Project Management Maturity Level
With the increased number of strategic and operational projects, several key challenges were identified, this included visibility of total capacity versus demand of key resources, consistency in project execution processes, alignment of projects to strategic priorities, effective project planning, control and reporting, and levels of project management knowledge / skills within the business.
Saros Consulting was engaged to assist address these challenges and embed project management as a practice through developing a project delivery capability that aligns projects with corporate strategy through an effective execution lifecycle.
Case Study
Certa
Low Project Management Maturity Level
With the discipline of Project Management being relatively new to the organisation, we focused on implementing the basic elements of a sound project management practice, some of which included: Determining the maturity of existing project management practices within the business and the unique characteristics of the organisation in relation to managing change. Creating a project management framework based on the organisation’s project management maturity, to act as a guide to project decisions and enable a consistent approach to project prioritisation, planning and execution. Introducing a fit-for-purpose project governance structure to provide direction, make decisions and ensure projects are visible and routinely reviewed. Establishing a Project Office to manage the PM processes, tools and templates, and provide support to the project governance structures. Working collaboratively with the leadership team in reviewing, aligning and prioritising projects to strategic objectives to ensure teams work on projects that move the organisation forward. Continuously engaging the leadership team to ensure active and visible sponsorship of the project management practices.
Case Study
Certa
Project Success
Saros approach led to project success with the following results: Enhanced visibility of capacity and demand, enabling improved prioritisation of projects. Successful implementation of a fit-for-purpose project management framework and project management tool. Establishment of a Project Management Office. Successful delivery of several post-merger integration projects. Increased Project Management knowledge and skills across the business. Improved planning, execution and control of projects. Significant increase in the utilisation of the project management framework and project management tool among management teams.
