How can Chief Enterprise Architects take a leadership role in M&A?

Morgan Stanley recently predicted that 2024 could be a hot year for M&A, with a 50% increase in deal volumes compared to 2023.

?PWC cautiously concur, suggesting a possible uptick in the last half of the year, despite the poor start.

?Our current Gartner? report, Quick Answer: How Can Chief Enterprise Architects Take a Leadership Role in M&A? and our recent blog Why CIOs need Enterprise Architecture to cope with M&A initiatives are, therefore, timely. They both support the view that Chief Enterprise Architects should be involved in the due diligence process prior to the deal closing.

The Gartner? report?sets out how a CEA can create an EA Service specifically to provide M&A support, and how they can sell the service to the M&A Leaders, who may be unaware of the opportunity to use this internal resource to improve their chances of success.

?Access the Gartner?report in full here:

https://enterprise-architecture.org/complementary-gartner-thought-leadership/

Contact us to discuss how the Essential EA Management Tool can support analysis of the IT Assets of both organisations, highlighting synergies and differences to enable understanding of problems and opportunities to improve the chances of success.