Inside this book, you’ll find…

• Three root causes of most M&A failures (Chapter 1)
•  Ten lessons we should all learn from the history of mergers and acquisitions (Chapter 2)
•  What every manager should know about the odds of succeeding in mergers and acquisitions today (Chapter 3)
•  Six reasons that acquirers become enamored with acquisition targets, and overpay for them (Chapter 3)
•  Seven “best practices” of today’s most successful business acquirers (Chapter 3)
•  Advice from C-level executives in M&A-built companies about what works, what doesn’t, and why (Chapter 3)
•  How to avoid the most commonly cited problems that drain financial performance from M&A transactions (Chapter 4)
•  How to assess your company’s preparedness to benefit from M&A – whether the M&A is in your company’s past or its future (Chapter 6)
•  How to align leadership, business processes, and information systems to capture earnings and market share (Chapters 7 through 9)
•  How to utilize a strengthened platform of leadership, processes and systems to accelerate and heighten the benefits of future mergers and acquisitions (Chapter 10)

….and a special bonus feature for busy executives who need to home in quickly on the most pertinent information: An executive summary of each chapter is contained in the book’s introduction, enabling the reader to turn immediately to topics of greatest interest. Enterprise Optimization Is filled with powerful, detailed examples from A&D, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Financial Services, and Telecommunications industries showing exactly how to drive M&A activity directly to bottom-line financial performance!

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