Mergers and acquisitions
Accelerating integration with clarity and control, helping leaders make intentional decisions from pre-close through synergy tracking
The M&A landscape today
Mergers and acquisitions are powerful accelerators of growth and capability. Yet delivering on the promise of a deal is harder than ever. AI, automation, and continuous transformation have reshaped how organizations operate, raising the stakes on every workforce decision.
Each deal carries overlapping structures, competing priorities, and complex people risks. Intentional M&A is not only about combining two businesses. It is about aligning purpose, structure, and people with evidence.
Leaders need visibility and foresight to move fast without losing stability, so that immediate integration pressures build the basis for long term transformation capability.
Streamlining M&A: How you can optimize deal integration
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Common M&A challenges
M&A has always been complex. In a world shaped by rapid change, the challenges multiply. Every integration introduces new data, new structures, and new expectations.
- Disparate data: Workforce information sits in different systems, making evaluation and integration slow and uncertain.
- Manual processes:Spreadsheets and email chains add risk, delay, and human error.
- Synergy and change tracking:Leaders need accurate, ongoing visibility into whether projected synergies are being met and where changes in the target organization are emerging.
- Security and confidentiality:Before close, two organizations must collaborate while maintaining strict control over sensitive data.
- Risk and uncertainty:Limited insight into workforce shape, cost, role alignment, and cultural fit reduces deal value and increases integration risk.
- Business disruptions:Internal teams carry the workload of integration while managing daily operations, raising pressure across the organization.
Introducing Orgvue
Orgvue is the workforce transformation platform that helps organizations deliver M&A with speed and evidence.
The platform combines AI driven intelligence with scenario modeling, giving leaders the clarity needed to act intentionally at every stage of the deal lifecycle. It brings data together across both organizations, identifies overlaps and synergies, and shows the impact of decisions before they are made.
- Centralized and trusted data
- Advanced scenario modeling capabilities for all deal phases
- Alignment across departments and functions
- Faster transformation with reduced risk
- Real time synergy and change tracking
Why does Orgvue work for M&A?
Choosing Orgvue means managing M&A with confidence and control. Instead of fragmented information and manual effort, teams work from a unified platform that connects strategy to structure and accelerates decision making.
- Accelerated delivery: AI-supported modeling speeds up insights, decisions, and integration so value is realized sooner.
- Increased control: Manage the entire M&A journey on one platform, from synergy identification to post close tracking, grounded in accurate workforce data.
- Minimized risk: Secure and centralize sensitive information while managing permissions with precision.
- Enhanced collaboration: Stakeholders work together in real time on trusted, de risked data.
- Advanced tracking: Monitor synergies and workforce changes over time to understand impact, hold leaders accountable, and keep integration on course.
Henshaw Assistant
Ask, and your data answers
Henshaw Assistant brings your data to life, giving you instant clarity on your workforce.
Ask questions like:
- Which capabilities span multiple functions?
- Which roles are present in both the acquiring and acquired companies? And where are these roles located?
- Which function has the largest gap to target based on our current model?
features and benefits
How it works
Orgvue streamlines the entire M&A lifecycle and keeps your data connected from due diligence through integration.
Due diligence and current state analysis
- Evaluate the target organization and understand workforce risks and synergy opportunities
- Bring data from multiple sources into Orgvue and resolve quality issues
- Compare structures, spans, size, and health metrics across both organizations
- Define roles and access control for sensitive information
View key organizational health metrics across both organizations
Overlay and map retained roles into job taxonomy
Mapping and levelling
- Compare job levels, salary bands, and other critical fields with clear side by side views
- Map roles into a shared job taxonomy
- Automate recommendations where possible to streamline the leveling process
Integration and separation modeling
- Build Day 1 and future state structures
- Drag and drop teams or individuals to simulate different scenarios
- Make detailed design decisions at the individual level, including temporary or transitional roles
- Review compensation changes and validate structural adjustments
- Export results for leader review and offer letter preparation
Submitting changes to both organizations for approval, before moving forward
Track cost month over month, cost change by department, as well as by joiners, movers and leavers
Synergy tracking and monitoring
- Incorporate synergy targets into design and planning
- Track actual headcount and cost changes against milestones
- Monitor implementation over time to maintain alignment and manage deviation early
Customer story
An accelerated integration of two global media companies
200k+
Employees
200k+ employees assessed and re-deployed in the process
60+
Upskilled employees
60+ upskilled internal employees to run the process
The process was complex, mostly because of the large volume of data and the sheer number of stakeholders involved… but we managed to get it done quickly, securely and risk-free.
VP, Organizational Design
Business goal
- Successfully merge two of the largest global media companies following a $70bn acquisition.
- Build the new organizational structure and move to the new model, while minimizing cost and reliance on third parties.
Solution
- Integrated and centralized data from both businesses securely in Orgvue.
- Built the new organizational design and moved more than 200,000 employees into positions based on their skills and competencies.
- Set up a standardized rollout process across globally distributed HR teams.
- Trained a center of excellence team of more than 60 people to manage the process and monitor progress.
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