TY  - CHAP
U1  - Konferenzveröffentlichung
A1  - Albayrak, Can Adam
A1  - Gadatsch, Andreas
T1  - Managing Mergers and Acquisitions or Post-Merger Cookbook for CIOs and IT Management
T2  - The proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation : University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 17-18 September 2009
N2  - Mergers and acquisitions take place all over the world and in many industries, typically motivated by corporate politics. While IT management is often not involved in the decision-making, it has to solve a wide range of problems in the post-merger phase. Indeed, merging two or more companies implies not only merging their core businesses, but also creating a new and efficiently integrated IT organisation from the individual ones, since persistence of the current IT organisations usually does not make sense. In addition, corporate management frequently imposes constraints, e.g., cost reductions, on the IT infrastructure. The principal critical success factor when merging IT organisations is the uninterrupted operation of the IT business, because a service gap is neither acceptable for in-house functional departments nor for external customers. Therefore, the IT rebuilding phase has to focus on IT services that facilitate the processes of functional departments, support processes, and processes of customers and suppliers, so that any transformation work is transparent to internal and external customers. In this article we describe a real-world but anonymous case study. Our goals are to highlight the points important for merging IT organisations, and to help decision-makers, particularly in the areas of IT organisation and IT personnel. We focus on the arising organisational and non-technical issues from a management perspective, i.e., the CIO's view, and provide checklists intended to help IT managers to address the most pressing issues. To assist CIOs surviving in the post merger phase, we give check lists for merging IT organisations, check lists for merging IT human resources, check lists for IT budgets and reporting, and assess activities in a merger scenario. IT hardware, software and IT infrastructure as well as running IT projects are not considered in this paper.
KW  - IT organisation
KW  - Information Systems
KW  - Post-merger phase
KW  - IT management
KW  - Mergers and acquisitions
Y1  - 2009
SN  - 978-1-906638-44-3
SB  - 978-1-906638-44-3
SP  - 1
EP  - 9
ER  -