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- Sep 4
In recent times, the yearly number of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) increases steadily. Especially in saturated markets like the banking industry, another wave of consolitation can be observed, likely to be catalyzed by the financial crisis.
M&A are mainly driven by business goals like, e.g.:
A significant number of merger projects do not reach their expected goals or fail completely. Still, recent empirical studies indicate continuing low success rates. IT plays a major role in the Post-Merger Integration (PMI) but is often underrepresented in the merger planning phase leading to problems whilst the transformation. Scientific literature states specific success factors for a merger (for example: a clear business vision, coordinated and holistic planning of business and IT, consistent decisions, stakeholder management) which we aim to adress with an Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) approach.
Therefore, we aim to combine methods and knowledge from academia (e.g. EAM Pattern Catalog) with market standards (e.g. TOGAF) and practical experiences from EAM projects.
The aim of the M&A research project is the collection and academic refinement of practical experiences in large IT transformation projects. Our special focus lies on projects in the context of mergers and acquisitions in the banking industry.
Therefore, we intend to conduct a series of case studies in different companies. At the same time we would like to facilitate the cross-enterprise knowledge exchange between EAM and M&A experts. We expect to gain valuable insights by combining state of the art in practice and academia to explore an interesting use case for Enterprise Architecture Management.
Currently we are looking for industry partners who would like to participate in this project. Thereby a cooperation could range from analyze and evaluate M&A information to build and assess a specific M&A solution.
