Mergers and Acquisitions

The Theory of Missions™ is a registered trademark of Organizational Analysis Corporation.

Mission design technology has never been put to better use than during the transition of one business's ownership to another.

As a result of our many years of experience in the business system, we have concluded that companies reflect the values of their leaders, their strategies and their management styles.

While this may seem apparent to many, we have found that this factoid is often overlooked when companies acquire others. As a result, transitioning a recently acquired company too often devalues both entities temporarily if not for the duration of the relationship.

We believe contributing to this situation is the fact that the level of research performed prior to the acquisition maybe insufficient. Due diligence usually serves as the cornerstone for the analyses performed. In most cases, this simply does not produce enough information to determine whether or not the company's existing structures will support the long-range success of the acquiring mission.

We believe that external support for active mergers and acquisitions programs (M&A) can provide favorable cost/benefit ratios. Looking beyond the usual P/E ratios, total revenues, new profits, and the usual financial yardsticks leads the progressive M&A program manager to the realization that significant additional benefits can be obtained by new organizational strategies, increased efficiencies in operations, and serendipitous combinations of technologies.

Executives who conduct thorough analyses of not only the financial and physical resources, but the company's position in the market, how it defines itself, the values to which it subscribes, the strategies it employs, how it manages its business and creates the culture through which it operates, how it plans, and finally how well those plans are carried out, are fully informed upon purchase. Moving into a relationship with less information increases the downside risk of a successful venture by several orders of magnitude.

Through the use of OAC integrated mission definition, diagnostic and assessment, design, planning and execution methodologies, we can increase the probabilities of success in all stages of the merger and acquisition process.

OAC's M&A services are available through five areas, including:

M&A Assessment
M&A Design
M&A Planning
M&A Implementation
M&A Follow-up

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