Post-Merger Integration Analysis
Two ways of doing the same work, compared before you choose.
Integration leaders, operating partners, and the functional heads who will run the combined processes once two companies merge.
Integration plans are usually drawn from two org charts and a stack of process documents. Cerenovus reads both companies' working records and maps each process side by side: matched steps, overlapping functions, duplicate systems, and the people the work depends on. Each difference links to the records behind it, so process owners can design the combined company from the work itself.
Questions this review answers
The questions integration leaders need answered before they commit to an operating model, a systems choice, or a new organization design.
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Where do the two companies run the same process in different ways?
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Which overlapping systems can be retired, and what work runs only in each?
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Which people does each process depend on, and whom must the combined team keep?
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Which controls must the combined process keep from each side?
What Cerenovus typically finds
Two companies can look alike on paper and still run differently. The records show where they differ, and what each difference means for the combined design.
Same process, different method
Both companies approve purchases and onboard customers, but with different steps, sign-offs, controls, and timing. Cerenovus lines each process up step by step, so leaders compare like with like before choosing one.
Steps only one company performs
An extra approval, a manual quality check, or a customer call may exist in one company only. Each is marked, so process owners choose to keep, drop, or merge it instead of losing it when the teams combine.
Duplicate systems with different jobs
Two ERPs or two CRMs can look interchangeable on a systems list. The records show what each one handles, including work the other company runs in spreadsheets and email.
Functions that overlap in name only
Teams with the same title often do different work. Cerenovus compares what each team handles and in what volume, so the combined organization is designed around the work, not the job titles.
Steps that depend on one person
In either company, one person may release every supplier payment, set up all new customer accounts, or maintain the pricing rules. Cerenovus flags each from how work routes, so the combined design can plan cover for them.
Workloads that peak in the same week
Two purchasing teams may look easy to combine until the records show both are busiest in the same week each month. Cerenovus measures volume and timing per team, so leaders size the combined team for its real workload.
5 steps from question to decision
Each analysis starts from the processes your integration team names and ends with a register of differences, each one ready for a process owner's decision.
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Set the integration questions and scope
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Connect approved sources in both companies
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Map each process side by side
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Compare teams, workloads, and key people
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Process owners decide each difference
What your team receives
Each deliverable links to its sources, so the integration team can check it, edit it, and use it in design decisions.
Side-by-side workflow maps
Each process in scope drawn for both companies as it runs today, with matched steps, steps unique to one side, systems used, and manual steps marked, beside the proposed combined version.
Difference register
Each step, control, or system difference between the two companies, with a keep, drop, or merge recommendation, the owner role, and the records behind it.
Organization maps for both companies
Both companies' shadow org charts, drawn from how work moves, with the functions that overlap across them and the people each combined process will rely on.
Process owners and integration leaders decide each combined design: which steps, controls, and systems to keep, who owns each step, and how the teams are organized. Cerenovus maps both companies and cites the records; your team designs and runs the integration.
Plan the integration from how both companies run
Cerenovus reads approved company data through read-only access and ranks what it finds by value.