M&A as a Strategic Option [Kindle Edition]

This book is written to support companies in their aim to create new business through mergers and acquisitions (M&A). The strategy-oriented book provides insights and tools from the recognition of a new business creation opportunity to its implementation through M&A.

The book generates new information and new insights into new business creation through mergers and acquisitions:
•How to support strategic planning and decision-making related to new business creation
•How to incorporate uncertainty into the planning processes
•How to view M&A from a strategic perspective
•How to implement M&A
•How to integrate new business opportunities successfully
In addition, the book introduces methods and tools to support the management of new business creation through M&A in practice:
•A tool for Business Opportunity Evaluation
•A tool for M&A Risk and Opportunity Analysis
•A tool for Integration Task Tool

The book is aimed at all managers and people involved in strategy and business development, investment planning and the M&A process, from business-unit to board level. It gives strategic insights on both the corporate and the business-unit level, and offers tools for M&A teams and managers involved in the concrete integration work.