Flawless post M&A
Integration
Flawless post
M&A Integration
The essence
Statistics abound on how Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures are more likely to fail than succeed. Integration Planning and Post M&A Integration quality, especially from an organisation and people perspective, is pivotal. Most leaders believe that cultural integration is at the crux of a post-merger integration, but our PMI framework suggests that there is more than meets the eye!
Employer branding suite
Craft Employee Value Proposition
At Carpediem, we help organisations articulate their unique EVP, aligning employee promises with brand values to foster engagement and commitment, ultimately making them employers of choice in a competitive landscape.
Employer Brand Activation
Carpediem's approach to Employer Brand Activation is effective and unique. It's a holistic integration of branding and HR. We hand-hold clients over the long term to ensure that the crafted Employee Value Propositions (EVPs) or Employee Promises are experienced strongly within the organisation. This dual emphasis attracts talent and fosters employee engagement and advocacy, making the brand resonate internally and externally.
Employee & Candidate Experience Design
Employee & Candidate Experience Design at Carpediem focuses on creating seamless and engaging journeys for employees and candidates. Integrating user-centred design principles enhances interactions at every touchpoint, ensuring a positive experience that reflects your brand values and attracts top talent while fostering employee satisfaction and retention.
Brand Ambassador Program
The Brand Ambassador Program at Carpediem empowers employees to become authentic advocates for your brand. By fostering a culture of engagement and ownership, we equip ambassadors with the tools and training to effectively communicate your employer brand, enhancing recruitment efforts and strengthening internal pride.
Recruitment Marketing
Performance Marketing at Carpediem focuses on strategically positioning your employer brand to attract top talent. By leveraging targeted campaigns and data-driven insights, we enhance visibility and engagement across various platforms, ensuring your organisation stands out in the competitive job market and resonates with potential candidates.
Campus Connect Programs
The Campus Connect Program at Carpediem is designed to help companies become ‘Employers of Choice’ in engineering and management colleges. Collaborating with universities facilitates meaningful interactions that expose students to real-world opportunities. These programs enhance your employer brand while attracting emerging talent, ensuring a skilled workforce ready for future challenges.
Internship Program
We design World Class Internship Programs that offer students and recent graduates a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a dynamic work environment. Participants receive mentorship, training, and exposure to real-world projects, equipping them with essential skills and insights that enhance their career readiness and make your company appealing to them as an employment destination
Alumini Connect Program
The Alumni Connect Programs at Carpediem foster lasting relationships between your organisation and former employees. Creating a thriving alum network facilitates valuable connections, mentorship opportunities, and knowledge sharing. These programs enhance brand loyalty, encourage referrals, and promote a strong sense of community among alumni and current employees.
Employer Brand Audits
The Employer Brand Audits at Carpediem comprehensively evaluate your organisation's recruitment and branding strategies. By analysing messaging, candidate experiences, and market positioning digitally and offline, we identify strengths and areas for improvement. This audit empowers organisations to refine their employer brand, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and enhancing overall talent attraction.
Employer Brand Workshop
Carpediem’s Employer Brand Workshops are interactive sessions designed to empower organisations in shaping their employer brand. Participants engage in collaborative activities to define their Employee Value Proposition (EVP), develop effective branding strategies, and learn best practices for attracting and retaining top talent in a competitive market.
Craft Employee Value Proposition
At Carpediem, we help organisations articulate their unique EVP, aligning employee promises with brand values to foster engagement ,
and commitment, ultimately making them employers of choice in a competitive landscape.
Employer Brand Activation
Carpediem's approach to Employer Brand Activation is effective and unique. It's a holistic integration of branding and HR. We hand-hold clients over the
long term to ensure that the crafted Employee Value Propositions (EVPs) or Employee Promises are experienced strongly within the organisation. This dual emphasis attracts talent and fosters employee engagement and advocacy, making the brand resonate internally and externally.
Employee & Candidate Experience Design
Employee & Candidate Experience Design at Carpediem focuses on creating seamless and engaging journeys for employees and candidates. Integrating user-centred
design principles enhances interactions at every touchpoint, ensuring a positive experience that reflects your brand values and attracts top talent while fostering employee satisfaction and retention.
Internship Program
We design World Class Internship Programs that offer students and recent graduates a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a dynamic work environment. Participants receive mentorship,
training, and exposure to real-world projects, equipping them with essential skills and insights that enhance their career readiness and make your company appealing to them as an employment destination
Alumni Connect Programs
The Alumni Connect Programs at Carpediem foster lasting relationships between your organisation and former employees. Creating a thriving alum network facilitates valuable connections, mentorship
opportunities, and knowledge sharing. These programs enhance brand loyalty, encourage referrals, and promote a strong sense of community among alumni and current employees.
Employer Brand Audits
The Employer Brand Audits at Carpediem comprehensively evaluate your organisation's recruitment and branding strategies. By analysing messaging, candidate experiences, and
market positioning digitally and offline, we identify strengths and areas for improvement. This audit empowers organisations to refine their employer brand, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and enhancing overall talent attraction.
Recruitment Marketing
Performance Marketing at Carpediem focuses on strategically positioning your employer brand to attract top talent. By leveraging targeted campaigns and data-driven insights, we enhance visibility
and engagement across various platforms, ensuring your organisation stands out in the competitive job market and resonates with potential candidates.
Brand Ambassador Program
The Brand Ambassador Program at Carpediem empowers employees to become authentic advocates for your brand. By fostering a culture of engagement and ownership, we equip ambassadors
with the tools and training to effectively communicate your employer brand, enhancing recruitment efforts and strengthening internal pride.
Campus Connect Programs
The Campus Connect Program at Carpediem is designed to help companies become ‘Employers of Choice’ in engineering and management colleges. Collaborating with universities facilitates
universities facilitates meaningful interactions that expose students to real-world opportunities. These programs enhance your employer brand while attracting emerging talent, ensuring a skilled workforce ready for future challenges.
Employer Brand Workshops
Carpediem’s Employer Brand Workshops are interactive sessions designed to empower organisations in shaping their employer brand. Participants engage in collaborative activities to define their
Employee Value Proposition (EVP), develop effective branding strategies, and learn best practices for attracting and retaining top talent in a competitive market.
M&A integration suite
Leadership Alignment
Purpose Vision & Values
Brand Preservation
Integration Planning
Organisational Design
Cultural Integration
Retention
Harmonisation
Communication
HR Integration
Success Measurement
Leadership Alignment
Purpose
Vision & Values
Brand
Preservation
Integration
Planning
Organisational Design
Cultural
Integration
Retention
Harmonisation
Communication
HR Integration
Success Measurement
Our success stories
HUL-TOMCO
Diageo's acquisition of USL
PVR acquisition of SPI Cinemas
UFO Moviez & Qube Cinemas JV's
Kirloskar acquisition of ISMT
Drake Beam Morrin
Glossary
Candidate Experience:
This is the sense candidates get from your company during the hiring process. A smooth, welcoming experience? They’ll remember. A frustrating, drawn-out ordeal? Yeah, they’ll remember that too.
Candidate Personas:
Think of these as fictional profiles of your dream hires. They’re based on real data, like job skills, motivations, and goals, and help you zero in on the kind of candidates who’ll be a perfect fit.
Corporate Culture:
Corporate culture is your company's personality. It’s the shared values, behaviours, and ways of working that make your organisation unique. It’s what employees feel when they walk in the door or log in from home.
Diversity & Inclusion (D&I)
D&I means creating a workplace where everyone, no matter their background, feels valued and included. It’s about embracing diversity in all its forms and making sure everyone has a seat at the table.
Employee Advocacy
When your employees are so proud of where they work that they can’t help but tell the world—that’s employee advocacy. Think of it as word-of-mouth marketing from the people who know your company best.
Employee Engagement
This is all about how much your employees care about their work and your company. High engagement means they’re motivated, passionate, and ready to give their best. Low engagement? Well, it’s probably time to rethink some things.
Employer Branding (EB)
Employer branding is about creating a positive and appealing image of your company as a great place to work. It’s designed to resonate with both current employees and those you want to attract in the future.
Employer Branding Metrics
These are the numbers that tell you if your employer branding efforts are paying off. Think retention rates, employee satisfaction, and application volume—it’s all about tracking the impact of your efforts.
Employer Value Proposition (EVP)
Your EVP is the answer to “Why work here?” It’s the unique blend of perks, career development, a supportive culture, and the all-important paycheck that makes people want to join—and stay—at your company. It’s what makes you stand out in the crowd.
Internal Branding
Internal branding is all about making sure your employees believe in your company’s mission, values, and culture. When they do, they’ll be your biggest ambassadors — inside and outside the office.
Onboarding
Onboarding is your company’s welcome party for new hires. It’s how you get them up to speed on the culture, expectations, and everything they need to hit the ground running. Done right, it’s the start of a beautiful relationship.
Recruitment Marketing
This is where HR meets marketing. It’s about promoting your company to potential employees just like you’d market to customers—showing them why your company is a great place to work before they even apply.
Talent Acquisition
Talent acquisition focuses on finding and bringing in the right people for your team — both for today and for what’s coming down the road. It’s not just about filling positions; it’s about building the future team that will drive your company’s success.
Workplace Wellbeing
Workplace wellbeing is more than just free snacks and a gym membership. It’s about creating an environment where employees can thrive—mentally, physically, and emotionally.
M&A Integration FAQs
Post-merger integration, or PMI, is the critical process of combining two businesses after a merger or acquisition. It involves merging various aspects like operations, systems, people, and culture to create a unified and efficient organisation. This process aims to unlock the synergies identified during the M&A deal and maximise the value creation for the new entity.
A well-defined PMI strategy acts as a roadmap, guiding a smooth and efficient transition for both companies. It minimises disruptions, fosters employee morale, and helps capture the projected synergies from the M&A deal. Without a clear plan, confusion, delays and missed opportunities can hinder success.
PMI consultants bring extensive experience and expertise to the integration process. They can help you:
- Develop a comprehensive integration strategy:
Leveraging best practices, consultants can guide you in creating a roadmap that addresses all critical aspects of the merger. - Manage complexities and mitigate risks:
PMI consultants can anticipate potential issues and develop solutions to overcome challenges throughout the integration process. - Facilitate communication and cultural integration:
Their experience helps bridge communication gaps and fosters a collaborative environment between the merging organisations. - Optimise the process for value creation:
Consultants can help identify and capture the projected synergies from the M&A deal, maximising the overall value for the new entity.
- Differing compensation and benefits:
Aligning pay structures, benefits packages, and leave policies across both companies involved in the M&A integration process can be a hurdle. - Talent management and redundancy:
The PMI process requires careful planning for talent retention strategies, addressing potential redundancies within the newly formed entity, and ensuring a smooth transition for all employees. - Cultural integration:
Fostering a unified work environment that embraces the strengths of both merging companies' cultures is crucial for long-term success. - Data harmonisation:
Combining HR data systems and ensuring accurate recordkeeping can be a significant task during the post-merger integration process.
Our 11-step M&A integration framework has been holistically designed to address all possible concerns related to the HR functions. Here are a few elements from the framework:
- M&A Integration Planning
- Cultural Integration
- Change Management
- Communication Strategy
- Operational Integration of HR
- Measurement of PMI Success
- Improved employee morale and retention:
Clear communication, fair treatment, and a smooth transition process can boost employee morale and minimise talent loss. - Increased efficiency and cost savings:
Streamlined HR processes across the merged entity can lead to operational efficiencies and cost reductions as part of the overall M&A integration benefits. - Enhanced employer brand:
A positive integration experience showcases a commitment to employee well-being and can attract top talent in the future. - Faster achievement of synergies:
Aligning HR practices can accelerate the realisation of the synergies identified during the M&A deal, maximising the value creation from the post-merger integration process.
Our pricing is tailored to the specific needs of your M&A deal. We offer free consultations to discuss your project and provide a customised quote.
- Experienced team:
Our team has a proven track record of success in guiding M&A integrations. - Collaborative approach:
We work closely with your team to understand your unique goals and challenges. - Data-driven strategies:
We leverage data and analytics to optimise the integration process. - Focus on value creation:
We focus on helping you achieve the synergies identified during the M&A deal.
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