The Combustion

Your company can do so much more than it is currently doing. As an outsider, we will not be biased by the heavy politics in the organisation. We will plunge to the root cause of the issues and help in the rebirth of the company into the Blaze stage. To achieve this, we will:
We will help you eliminate complacency and bring the vitality back into your organisation by:

Finance:

• Focus the Organisation and its Leadership on value creation
• Take the role of a Business Advisor and Integrator
• Help you with Financial and Commercial due-diligence.
• Work on the business to ensure compliance and effective control before, during and after acquisition and merger.
• Act as a custodian of Assets and Value Protection
• Prepare for and support the transition of Financial and Information Systems during mergers and acquisitions.
• Transition Cost – cost estimation and cost control
• Individual and company Performance Measurement linked to company objectives and priorities
• Identify the key value drivers that will make the newly formed organisation successful

Human Resources:

• Design and implement Reward System that incentivises performance and contribution.
• Help you set up the team’s infrastructure and fill the gaps in teams and competence with contractors.
• Create Cultural Alignment between the business units.
• Train, Coach and Mentor the teams to strengthen the company capability and competence
• Eliminate the fear and uncertainty in the organisation with an effective Communication Plan – accurate information flow to clarify why Merging is the best move, how the new organisation will feel and how it will affect their work.
• Establish a model to address people’s issues.
• Talent Retention and Development with the focus on transitioning the core competencies.
• Assimilate the acquired company key competencies into the new organisational portfolio of talents.
• Team Integration and Cultural Alignment: cultural mapping, organisational structure development and alignment between strategy, tactics and governance.
• Create healthy leadership team aligned with the vision and core values.
• Create practices for knowledge transfer and learning.
• Cultural Assessment: describing and evaluating the company’s philosophies and values for issues such as leadership styles, time horizons, risk tolerance and the value of individual work vs. teamwork.
• Create transition teams
• Align the right people with the right skills and knowledge to the common vision and purpose.
• Develop new Policies and Practices that suit the newly formed organisation.
• Manage the Learning Process – reward learning, provide responsibility for learning, set up learning driven career plans.

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Operations:

• Help you prepare and facilitate the transition of your operations during mergers and/or acquisitions.
• Help you integrate the newly acquired organisation, preserving the key attributes that made it attractive in the first place.
• Integration of day-to-day Systems and Processes to achieve key strategies.
• Programme manage the integration
• Create a System for fast resolution of issues brought by both organisations.
• Integrate the distribution to eliminate duplication of activities and costs.
• Help you maintain your energy and focus on your core business during the transition period, so you retain your customers.

Organisation:

• Examine all facets of the merger or acquisition ecosystem then re-evaluate in the context of the new organisation.
• Change the Organisational Behaviour by shifting the structures of power to focus the organisation on opportunities.
• Help you during and post-acquisition – establish governance, facilitate communication and prepare and implement detailed implementation plans.
• Help you identify the common purpose and the vision of the newly formed organisation to aid the integration.
• Create and evaluate the new Structure.
• Transition the core competencies of the acquired organisation.
• Redesign a Functional Structure for information systems which will sustain decentralised accountability, more effective incentive systems and resource allocation to encourage profitability and high performance (rather than complacency).  Management Systems Accreditations

IT Operations

• Technological Integration – IT and other systems.