Delivering real improvement 

RIRR - Delivering acquisition integration

Imperative - parent companies need to deliver tangible benefits from the acquisition of another organisation to justify the purchase.

Challenge - improvement needs to be initiated fairly quickly after the acquisiation while the new organisation is receptive.

Key question - how can an improvement programme be initiated early before the operation and culture of the new organisation can be realistically understood?

Response - by preparing integration programme teams which can be launched day one with the first major task being to deliver a business change plan in the first ninety days.

Hartswood Management helps its clients to meet these challenges by providing the following capabilities:

• General management of the acquired business.
• Development of integration proposals for all business activities.
• Rationalisation of the product portfolio.
• Preparation and presentation of the business case.
• Development and management of the integration plan.
• Management of the transfer of activities between sites.
• Factory closures.

Hartswood Management case example - delivered £1.9M profit benefit through consolidating the manufacturing facilities of an acquired business into a division of the parent company.