How to project manage, when you don’t project manage
From my experience as a legal secretary and a very hands-on executive assistant, I have supported multiple M&A integration, separation and due diligence workstreams. However, I had not led a project as complex, as time sensitive or as nuanced as a wind up and I found myself managing this project over the course of 5 months.
Successful M&A Communications – It’s all in the detail
While the Board and management and deal advisors may all be clear what the strategic rationale for the transaction is along the way, if this is not communicated to the wider business, particularly those responsible for the technical, cultural and operational aspects then all those strategic benefits may be erased and much of the deal value can be eroded.