Link: https://www.ardoq.com/blog/ea-secret-weapon-for-m-and-a
From The Digital Transformation Blog
Mergers and acquisitions are a vital way for businesses to grow and maintain their competitive advantage. Carefully chosen and managed acquisitions provide organizations with new technology, talent, skills, and knowledge that they wouldn’t have been able to access otherwise.
Yet for all the potential that successful M&A can provide, it is estimated that half or more deals fail to deliver their promised benefits (as high as 70-75%, according to The M&A Failure Trap). Considering the millions of dollars that can go into these deals, the data suggests they frequently amount to a costly mistake.