Post-Merger Integration Consulting
The deal closed. Now two companies have to run as one.
An acquisition is announced as one company. Operationally it arrives as two: two sets of processes, two technology landscapes, two cultures, and teams unsure which way of working will survive. Excelerate's post-merger integration consulting works on that operating side. A Transformation Architect™ leads the integration across processes, systems, organization, and culture as one program, so the value in the deal shows up in how the business runs. Excelerate prices integration work on a fixed fee tied to a defined scope and outcome.
What Our Integration Consulting Covers
The work between the closed deal and a single operating company.
Integration alignment. Leaders from both sides agree on the objectives, the decisions that come first, and how the teams will work together through the transition.
Current-state discovery. Interviews, process documentation, and artifact reviews across both organizations, so the integration plan starts from how work actually runs today.
Operating model and organization design. One structure, one operating model, and clear roles in place of duplicated ones.
Process integration. Future-state processes that replace redundant ways of working, mapped and agreed across the combined teams.
Systems and technology consolidation. Requirements, vendor evaluation, total cost of ownership, and the business case for a shared platform.
Culture, change management, and training. Values and behaviors work, communications, and training plans that carry people through the transition.
Integration program management. One accountable leader across every workstream, holding the plan, the milestones, and the decisions.
Post-Merger Integration in Practice
After acquisitions in retail, financial services, and MedTech.
A food retail holding company after a series of acquisitions. Its banners ran on siloed, redundant technology, so the benefits of scale never arrived. Excelerate interviewed more than 30 stakeholders, documented current-state processes with more than 50, built more than 20 process maps across five banners and an inventory of more than 300 opportunities, then led the platform selection with a seven-year total cost of ownership analysis. The client signed with the recommended merchandising ERP vendor, which is now integrating the banners onto a shared platform.
A financial services organization with five resource centers inherited from several acquisitions. Excelerate helped design the future state that brings the centers under one consistent operating model, facilitated values and behaviors workshops, and delivered a 90-day training roadmap for the transition.
A global medical technology company after several acquisitions. Content and knowledge had fragmented across the business. Excelerate reviewed more than 240 artifacts, interviewed 30 stakeholders, and turned a fragmented process into one current-state view the company used to plan its future state.
“Your ability to manage complex change—integrating multiple brands and securing buy-in across both groups—turned a challenging process into a collective success.”
—Ryan Williams, Head of Sustainability, Peet’s Coffee
The Transformation Architect's Difference
Turning a closed deal into one company that runs.
Drawing the combined org chart is the easy part. The hard part is the operating decisions underneath it, made across two teams who each believe their way works.
One leader across every workstream. Integrations stall at the seams between workstreams, so one Transformation Architect holds all of them.
Both companies in the room. We build the integration with people from both sides, so the result is shared rather than imposed.
People carried through the change. Change management, communications, and training are part of the plan from the first week.
A fixed fee. The price is set before the work starts, so the integration has a defined scope and a finish line.
With Excelerate, an integration ends with one company, not two companies sharing a logo.
Post-Merger Integration Consulting FAQs
What does a post-merger integration consultant do?
A post-merger integration consultant helps two organizations become one operating company after a deal. At Excelerate that means aligning leaders on integration priorities, documenting how each side works today, designing the combined operating model and processes, consolidating systems, and leading the change management and training that carry people through the transition.
Do you handle due diligence or deal advisory?
No. Excelerate's integration work is on the operating side: processes, systems, organization, culture, and change. We work with the plan your deal team sets.
How is post-merger integration consulting priced?
On a fixed fee tied to a defined scope and outcome, agreed before the work begins. If the work takes longer than estimated, Excelerate absorbs the difference.
Which industries do you integrate in?
Excelerate's integration work spans retail and CPG, financial services, MedTech, software and technology, and nonprofits, where acquisitions and department consolidations leave duplicated processes, systems, and teams.