The numbers may make sense on paper, but it’s people, not paper, that make an organization thrive.  Capturing the synergies from combining two organizations requires careful planning and expert management of the human aspects of integration. 

It’s common knowledge that a third of mergers fail and 80% never fully deliver the expected results.  Acquisitions are similarly difficult to get right.  The majority of underperformance is not the fault of poor financial analysis, but because leaders don't pay enough attention to, nor invest enough energy in, the human aspects.  If the conventional approach doesn’t work, what’s next?

Lime works with clients before, during and immediately post merger or acquisition.  We partner with the financial and operational due diligence teams to provide an in-depth profile of the human-driven performance levers of both organizations.  Then we help accelerate integration of merged or acquired organizations so the new entity can get up to full speed, fast.