Supporting Information System Integration Decisions in the Post-Merger Context
Consolidation of organizations and assets through Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) is one of the strategies for organizational growth. However, despite the big popularity, the results of M&A initiatives are questionable. The main idea behind M&A is to create a new organization by combining...
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Riga Technical University
2023-04-01
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| description | Consolidation of organizations and assets through Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) is one of the strategies for organizational growth. However, despite the big popularity, the results of M&A initiatives are questionable. The main idea behind M&A is to create a new organization by combining several existing organizations. This new organization is created through a transformation process often called a post-merger. A significant part of the post-merger process is the integration of information systems. The success of post-merger information systems integration is the result of successful integration decisions. This study focuses on the problem of how a novice organization in post-merger initiatives can handle complexity in the decision-making process of post-merger information systems integration with its internal resources, without involvement of an external expertise, but with a support method to compensate the lack of expertise for informed decision-making. The extended decision-making process can be divided into three phases – identification of necessary decisions, decision-making, and decision implementation. This study focuses on the first two phases. For each of the phases, a specialized sub-method was developed, focused, respectively, on the identification of necessary decisions (AMILI) and decision-making as a choice between possible integration options (AMILP). Supporting tools were also developed for each of the sub-methods. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-2dfc285cfd1b45b2970a8ac1ac0be89f2024-12-05T09:56:31ZengRiga Technical UniversityComplex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly2255-99222023-04-01034306110.7250/csimq.2023-34.023101Supporting Information System Integration Decisions in the Post-Merger ContextKsenija Lace0Department of Artificial Intelligence and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Riga Technical University, 6A Kipsalas Street, Riga, LV-1048Consolidation of organizations and assets through Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) is one of the strategies for organizational growth. However, despite the big popularity, the results of M&A initiatives are questionable. The main idea behind M&A is to create a new organization by combining several existing organizations. This new organization is created through a transformation process often called a post-merger. A significant part of the post-merger process is the integration of information systems. The success of post-merger information systems integration is the result of successful integration decisions. This study focuses on the problem of how a novice organization in post-merger initiatives can handle complexity in the decision-making process of post-merger information systems integration with its internal resources, without involvement of an external expertise, but with a support method to compensate the lack of expertise for informed decision-making. The extended decision-making process can be divided into three phases – identification of necessary decisions, decision-making, and decision implementation. This study focuses on the first two phases. For each of the phases, a specialized sub-method was developed, focused, respectively, on the identification of necessary decisions (AMILI) and decision-making as a choice between possible integration options (AMILP). Supporting tools were also developed for each of the sub-methods.https://csimq-journals.rtu.lv/article/view/6801mergers and acquisitionspost-merger integrationinformation system integrationdecision-making |
| spellingShingle | Ksenija Lace Supporting Information System Integration Decisions in the Post-Merger Context Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly mergers and acquisitions post-merger integration information system integration decision-making |
| title | Supporting Information System Integration Decisions in the Post-Merger Context |
| title_full | Supporting Information System Integration Decisions in the Post-Merger Context |
| title_fullStr | Supporting Information System Integration Decisions in the Post-Merger Context |
| title_full_unstemmed | Supporting Information System Integration Decisions in the Post-Merger Context |
| title_short | Supporting Information System Integration Decisions in the Post-Merger Context |
| title_sort | supporting information system integration decisions in the post merger context |
| topic | mergers and acquisitions post-merger integration information system integration decision-making |
| url | https://csimq-journals.rtu.lv/article/view/6801 |
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