When you consider that 2 out of 3 mergers fail to meet business goals due to business cultural issues, it’s clear that it is long overdue to use more than ‘gut instinct’ and embrace talent analytics.

• Confidentially, easily, quickly, gather talent analytics on employees, executive and leadership teams at both companies.
• Anticipate business culture differences.
• Analytics will help to answer whether or not acquired company has talent characteristics to achieve company strategy?
• Due Diligence and Post-Merger Integration processes can both benefit highly from talent data to help merge and integrate talent in new organization.
• Provide data point to help integration team understand if leaders are aligned (or not) with new initiatives.
• Create post merger integration programs designed to accomplish business goals and talent helping to accomplish those goals.
• Create effective communications strategy to optimize acceptance by merged leaders and employees.

Garth Rose Consulting Group partners with Talent Analytics Corp to help businesses link their talent strategy with their business strategy.