IT Integration Value Leakage
Practitioner validation survey
Every serious layer of a transaction has a discipline that measures it. The IT layer has consultants. This survey asks practitioners where the value actually goes.
It is a joint research instrument, written with the Institute for Mergers, Acquisitions & Alliances, and it feeds an open working note on instrumenting the IT layer of M&A integration.
- About 12 minutes
- 28 questions
- Anonymous
- Aggregated reporting only
What it measures
Value leaks out of the IT layer in three distinct classes, and they are separated by when the value was lost. The instrument tests whether practitioners recognise that taxonomy, and which class costs the most.
The deal model was built on a false baseline of the IT estate.
The value was real but mistimed, delivered too late to be captured.
The value was real and on time but unwatched, so erosion was invisible until it was expensive.
What you get for taking part
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A benchmark against the practitioner population
Sent to you when the findings are published. You will see where your organisation sits against peers who have done a comparable number of deals, which is the comparison that actually matters here, because deal count predicts integration maturity far better than sector or company size do.
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Early access to the draft standard, and the ability to comment on it
The findings feed an open, peer reviewed working note being developed as the seed of an IT layer for the Global M&A Standard. Respondents are invited into the comment round.
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A rolling benchmark, and a dated edition each year
The instrument stays open continuously, so your answers join a benchmark you can see as soon as it is available. A dated edition is snapshotted and published annually with a stated number of respondents. Nothing is gated behind payment and nothing is sold.
The instrument is complete and in final review. This page carries the link the day it opens.
How your answers are handled
Responses are reported anonymously and in aggregate, and are never attributed to an individual or a company. The survey asks for no name, no employer and no deal.
An email address is requested only if you tick one of the optional boxes at the end, such as receiving your own benchmark or joining the comment round. It is held only to deliver the items you ticked, and it is never joined to your answers in any published finding.
Open text answers may be used as anonymised examples in the working note, and only if you separately tick the box giving permission to be contacted about it first.