We draw on our core competencies in consulting, systems integration and outsourcing to help clients derive maximum, long-term value from MA&D programs.

Like all major projects, each successful merger, acquisition or divestiture needs to be planned, managed, and well structured. Few organizations have sufficient large-scale program management resources and skills to address these large and complex projects. We do. Our Merger, Acquisition and Divestiture (MA&D) Services draws on our core competencies in consulting, systems integration and outsourcing to help clients derive maximum, long-term value from MA&D programs. Our solid track record in MA&D is packaged into a single suite of services to provide the people, skills, tools and methods to deliver results-driven operational transformation.

MA&D Key Features

MA&D is a chance to make radical changes, create a new business model and optimize IT that will enable you to respond more quickly and positively to new market opportunities and competitive threats. We are noted for its change management expertise and the ability to help customers deploy models to take advantage of synergies. We are also a recognized global leader in the execution of large-scale IT optimization projects. We challenge you to question the way your organization does business - how it interacts with customers and suppliers, how it markets, manufactures, delivers and supports its products.

Our Merger, Acquisition and Divestiture Services are designed to help clients derive maximum, long-term value from MA&D programs by:

• Supporting the entire project through a specialized MA&D framework using CSC core competencies, tools, methodologies and resources
• Identifying and leveraging soft synergies with candidate acquisitions to achieve fast and maximum value
• Rapidly and seamlessly separating systems and data following a divestiture
• Re-assessing the entire business model and IT, to shape a completely new, more agile and efficient organization to consistently improve bottom-line results.

The key benefits gained from using CSC's MA&D services include:

For mergers:

• Comprehensive and pragmatic business and IT support, from pre-event planning to post-event optimization and rationalization
• Identification of potential synergies, in terms of people, process and IT.

For divestitures:

• Seamless separation of systems and data
• Streamlined infrastructure and processes.

Our MA&D approach

Our approach is built on more than 200 merger, acquisition and divestiture experiences. We take a proven, pragmatic approach that is driven by client needs and designed to deliver business results. Experienced professionals with an intimate knowledge of your industry sector will work closely with your organization to:

• Set and deliver realistic expectations for people, processes and IT
• Define and deploy a course of action appropriate for the type of MA&D: consolidation, combination, transformation or preservation
• Plan and implement the transition to an optimized business model and infrastructure
• Manage, operate and evolve the new applications and infrastructure.

A task force with appropriate industry, business and systems integration expertise will work exclusively on your project throughout its life, assisted by our Catalyst methodology and specialized MA&D tools, such as our SHAPE Transformation and MA&D Decision Matrix.