What does off-market mean when selling a business?
There’s a whole section of the business sale market you might not be aware of. If you’re looking to buy or sell a business, it’s important you’re clued up. You might be surprised to hear that most businesses sold in the UK are sold ‘off-market’, which means they are never listed for sale publicly. The entire process - the viewings, negotiations, sale and takeover - are completed quietly and under cover.
How Change Management Can Help M&A Deals
If you aren’t, then you should be. It’s really important that you take this into consideration, because an unhappy work environment and the type of big changes that come with merging your company with another are responsible for the failing of a company - or at the very least its merger - on a fairly regular basis.
5 Steps On How To Manage Reluctance To Change In M&A
If you are currently going through a merger or acquisition, you might have some reluctance to change. This is because humans are hardwired to resist change, even when it is good for us. We really like things to stay the way they are, because we’re addicted to predictability.
How to measure the success of a merger?
Mergers are a big deal. If you’ve taken the plunge and decided to merge with another company, you’ve no doubt put a whole load of work into making it successful. But how do you measure if a merger is successful or not?
How Yorkshire Change Supports Successful Mergers and Acquisitions
If you’re expanding your business - or you are in a position to do so - well done. This is an insatiable and uncertain marketplace, and you have to be experiencing a certain level of success if this is even an option for you. You’re doing something right, and you should be proud of yourself.
How to help the IT department reduce cost by quantifying and demonstrating better performance
We are a nation moving towards a digital world, and with the continuous growth in technology - and thanks to ecommerce - most industries operate their business inside a circuit of globalised market systems. It is difficult now to even imagine a world in which IT did not exist, and everything was done by hand. Thank goodness for change.
How leaders can help change management run smoothly
Research informs us that the odds are against change management being successful. But there are some tried and tested methods we know make it work. Many organisations are looking to make a change, in order to create new beneficial operational ways to conduct their business. Leadership plays an important role in this, and can help with the smooth running of change.
6 steps to engaging employees through challenging times of corporate change
Corporate change can be very stressful and uncertain for all those involved. Understanding the importance of the role your employees need to play is hugely important. Having everyone on board with the change and striving for the overall aim is key to success. Engaging your employees through the most challenging times can be very difficult if you are not prepared for it.
Merging company culture – How to manage two companies coming together
Often, companies will join forces. The marketplace today lends itself to this, because some companies are finding the only way they can survive is by adding value, and so executives are pursuing mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures at an increasingly popular pace. That said, companies have lost value for shareholders.