Acquisition Integration Blueprint
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Tasked with integrating multiple companies’ tech stacks after an M&A and not sure where to start?
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Overwhelmed with outlining the game plan to merge dozens of systems and tools and migrate large teams of users
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Looking for executive guidance from experienced operators that have led many M&As?
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Want to set up a new, unified business infrastructure with a strong foundation and prepared for more growth?
Features
Acquiring a company is hard, and successfully integrating it into a seamless, unified business is even harder. The biggest risks in an acquisition integration happen before implementation ever begins.
Inexperienced teams jump straight into user migration and system consolidation. Smart teams get their ducks in a row with a business solution design, so they minimize surprises, overengineered patchwork bandaids, and expensive reworks. OpFocus’ blueprint for acquisition integration is a proven methodology and framework that aligns stakeholders and expectations, assesses your current state, designs for your future-state operating model, and creates a prioritized blueprint before implementation begins.
Business and Operational Assessment
We help you evaluate select business areas to understand both companies' current state and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, scalability, and growth.
Technology & Data Review
Our experts assess your Salesforce org architecture, GTM tech stack, integrations & data flows, data quality and governance, and a desired area of focus, such as marketing & sales automation tools, customer success platforms, or quote-to-cash mechanisms, so your new integration plan isn’t built on past assumptions and hidden complexity.
GTM or QTC Process Design
Major changes in your go-to-market motion with your latest acquisition, or an overhaul of your quote-to-cash functionality required with a new suite of products and pricing? Select an area of redesign and let our functional experts upgrade your processes.
Systems & Data Re-architecting
The bread and butter of any acquisition integration is bringing your teams, tech stack, data, and reporting together. We lay out what we’ll need to consolidate, integrate, and normalize, and the effort required.
Opfocus’ Methodology for Acquisition Integration Success
Executive Alignment and Discovery Workshops
Discovery by functional areas to understand current business state and desired, consolidated future state optimized for efficiency and growth.
Tech Stack and Data Flow Review
Evaluate data model and key integrations across selected functional areas in both companies to identify the optimal combination of tools.
Rearchitecting and Advisory Workshops
Conduct workshops to drive alignment on major processes in need of consolidation, such as go-to-market model, prospect to opportunity conversion, or quote-to-cash mechanisms.
Operational Blueprint
Provide functional design recommendations and documentation and step through suggested approaches with key stakeholders for input and alignment that covers the tech stack, redesigned processes, and data strategy.
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