M&A Integration Technology: What Actually Works
from M&A Science
Jim Buckley, VP M&A Integration at Coursera | Todd Manley, VP of Corp Dev Integration at Intel | Carey Pugh is Sr. Director, M&A Corporate Integration at Ansys | Mahesh Ganesan, Sr. Director, M&A Integration at UKG Someone asked a Microsoft general manager what platform the company used to run its integrations. His answer: "We use Word and PowerPoint." Jim Buckley's rule today is stricter: "If something exists somewhere other than that single source of truth, it does not exist in our world." Four integration leaders from Intel, Coursera, Ansys and UKG compare what actually works. Todd Manley explains why a tool with too many knobs and dials gets abandoned, and why he thinks AI is still in the early innings for running a full integration program. Mahesh Ganesan walks through how he briefs functional leaders midway through diligence, so the people doing the work after close have the context they need. Carey Pugh names a common trap: integration tools that take data in but still send you back to PowerPoint. The panel ends on where value leaks: tribal knowledge, key people, and the lost art of the post-mortem. Jim's single source of truth for diligence, workstreams and the integration plan is the problem DealRoom Integration was built to solve. Diligence findings carry into integration worklists, and each finding has an owner that can be linked to the task that resolves it. That way context doesn't drop at close. See how it works: click here.
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