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The high price of mergers and acquisitions
Comment Mergers and acquisitions appear to have become an unstoppable force in the IT industry in recent years. High-tech companies have wholeheartedly adopted the mantra that big is beautiful. But despite the activity's undoubted popularity there can be... [24 Nov 1998]
The telecoms mega-mergers: Do end users really benefit?
Comment Are the mega-mergers in the interest of the customer or just the telcos' shareholders? Mega-mergers aren't all about increasing stockholder value, though. Ovum's Matthews agreed that companies do stand to benefit from the mergers. [19 Oct 1999]
Goodbye to 2000: Bursting bubbles, mega mergers and teetering telecoms
Comment Yes, we escaped the worst the millennium bug could throw at us. Twice - on 1 January and again on 29 February - we breathed a collective sigh of relief when the Doomsday scenarios forecast failed to materialise. [20 Dec 2000]
Boardroom Despatches: Tell me something good about Oracle/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards
Comment Are the proposed mergers in the applications software business all negative in nature? Even if that weren't the case, consider this nugget: 90 per cent of 1990s mergers failed to deliver on their stated objectives. [11 Jun 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Joined up working
Comment Integration is supposed to be the magic dust that makes mergers work, the glue that allows best of breed purchases - you know the hype. Yet time and time again companies have entered mergers and take-overs with bold claims of huge cost savings and... [03 Dec 2002]
Devil's Advocate: The fate of AOL
Comment As rumours circulate that Time Warner may sell off AOL to another big-name internet player, Martin Brampton wonders if this age of mega-mergers is good for anyone in the long run. And most mergers are takeovers behind the polite front. [20 Sep 2005]
IT recruitment sector folds in on itself
Comment With tens of thousands of IT jobs lost over the past few months, recruitment specialists are gearing up for a wave of mergers and acquisitions. It's hardly surprising bad news, considering the litany of job cuts, dot-com closures and mega... [25 Sep 2001]
'My ERP supplier has been acquired - now what?'
Comment Given the recent abundance of mergers and acquisitions amongst the mid-market ERP vendors, IT directors managing an ERP system may feel uncertain about the future of their incumbent system. Customer retention is vital in mergers as customer... [05 Feb 2007]
Learn to love your network again
Comment After years of evolution through the ordered chaos of new technology roll-outs, as well as mergers, acquisitions and the need to marry disparate and dispersed offices and workforces, many businesses are unlikely to have the clearest picture of... [26 Mar 2007]
Make up your mind! IT on the Board or not?
Comment Yesterday we reported, under the banner 'IT chiefs locked out of takeover talks', how 50 per cent of mergers and acquisitions are carried out without consulting the IT department. Given one in five mergers are abandoned or delayed when IT is... [23 May 2001]
Retail CIOs aiming to ditch legacy of IT complexity
Comment There has been a raft of mergers and takeovers in the last few years, especially in the convenience store and DIY markets and Professor Joshua Bamfield at the Centre for Retail Research believes that the integration of back-office systems is where... [02 Jul 2007]
Retail CIOs aiming to ditch legacy of IT complexity
CIO Analysis There has been a raft of mergers and takeovers in the last few years, especially in the convenience store and DIY markets and Professor Joshua Bamfield at the Centre for Retail Research believes that the integration of back-office systems is where... [06 Jun 2007]
Tech can make or break a merger
Comment Here are five basic rules to help CIOs make mergers successful. Mergers can help drive corporate transformation and redefine competitive and technological cultures in an organisation. IT is vital to building and sustaining the operational success... [25 Sep 2007]
The Bloor Perspective: Oracle's 11i under scrutiny, FI's future with Druid, and IT in the mega-merger
Comment Some companies have an IT strategy which is designed to take into account future acquisitions and mergers, such as that adopted by the highly acquisitive Nations Bank in the US. Obviously we can see why companies have their mixed solutions, but... [23 Jan 2000]
Transatlantic Cable: Sign of the times
Comment News of mergers, big IPOs and multi-million dollar deals that were convincing people that - despite warning signs - things were still going well and that the promise of the internet revolution was real. [20 Jun 2001]
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