Mergers and acquisitions?

[Harrison Owen]

Sure -- I have been with two major ones. First was ACCOR Hotels, and the
story of that one will be found in Tales from Open Space which you can find
on www.openspaceworld.com The article was written by Christopher Schoch. The
second was the creation of Corporate Express out of a half dozen different
companies. (written up nowhere)

You probably don't recognize ACCOR -- but that is the holding corporation
for Novatel, Sophatel, Pullman etc. Probably the biggest hotel chain in the
world.

The thing I noticed about working all this through in open Space was that
not only were nitty gritty issues like inventory, salary structure,
branding, etc dealt with -- but there was an ongoing cultural dialogue which
was probably more important. ACCOR is multi national -- Corporate Express is
American.

Harrison

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil
Culhane
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 1:14 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Mergers and acquisitions?

Does anyone have experience using OS as a facilitative tool for a corporate
merger of two
similar-sized companies (~100 each - if numbers matter)? Or anything
similar. The actual
merger, of course, is a fait accompli, so it's not "if" but "how" - how to
bring two
groups, two cultures, two up-until-now competitors together as one family.
What are the
issues that need to be discussed, what needs to happen to create synergies
and not go
through months of dysfunctionality?

It seems to me OS would be a healthy way to go about doing this - though I
may be wrong?

I'd appreciate hearing stories/thoughts.

Thanks,
Phil Culhane

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