IDG Contributor Network: Secrets to managing M&A

The need for speed to business synergy
CIOs have repeatedly told me in the #CIOChat that technology is easy. It is people and process that is hard. For this reason, it came as no surprise, people and process is where CIOs feel the race to M&A synergy is either lost or won.CIOs say that successful M&A is much more about people, process, and culture than it is about technology. Technology is seen by CIOs as a means to an end. M&A success, they stress, hinges on ‘soft assets&rsqu