Post-Merger Integration
Integration succeeds or fails in the records: product codes, customer files, charts of accounts. We join them, build the migrations and track the deal case against a fixed baseline.
Questions we help answer
- What has to work on day one so customers, staff and suppliers notice nothing?
- How do we combine two charts of accounts and close the month on time?
- Which customer and product records overlap, and which version do we keep?
- When can we retire the acquired company's systems, and what breaks if we do it too early?
- Are the benefits in the deal case actually arriving?
What we do
Day-one readiness
Billing, payroll inputs, banking, reporting, access, customer and supplier communication checked and working at completion.
Integration management office
A task system holding every workstream with owners, dependencies and acceptance criteria, and a benefits register baselined at completion.
Data and systems integration
Chart-of-accounts mapping, customer and product record matching, data migration and integration between platforms, built and tested by the same team.
Combined reporting
One management report for the combined business, reconciled to both ledgers during transition.
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How we approach it
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Map the collisions
We compare both businesses' records field by field and list every place where codes, customers, accounts or processes conflict.
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Migrate in reversible steps
Data moves are staged, reconciled after each step and recorded so they can be rolled back if the counts do not match.
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Track the deal case
Benefits are read from source records against the completion baseline and reported to the board on a fixed cadence.
Relevant industries
How an engagement with THEFOCUS starts
A first conversation is about your situation. If there is a fit, we propose a scoped diagnostic with a fixed deliverable before any larger commitment.
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A working conversation
Forty-five minutes with the person who would lead the work. We ask about the decision, the systems behind it and the deadline.
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A scoped diagnostic
Read-only access, a fixed timeframe and a written finding: what the records show, what it costs and what to change first.
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A plan you can act on
Changes, owners, measures and exclusions in writing. The same team then builds and measures, or hands over cleanly.
- One accountable team
- The people who diagnose also build the systems and measure the result.
- Partners chosen per problem
- Independent specialists join for the parts that need them, under one contract.
- Records before dashboards
- Orders, ledgers and logs are reconciled before any recommendation depends on them.
Questions executives ask
Can you join an integration that is already under way?
Yes. We start by reconciling the current state of both businesses' records and the benefits reported so far, then reset the plan where it needs it.
Do you handle the people side of integration?
We cover organisation design, roles and change adoption with our people and organisation practice. Employment-law questions remain with the client's advisers.
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