{"id":58,"date":"2005-07-08T09:49:47","date_gmt":"2005-07-08T08:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epix35.com\/gillisjonk.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2015-01-29T17:07:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T16:07:16","slug":"not-so-fast-rethinking-merger-rationale-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/epix35.com\/gillisjonk.com\/not-so-fast-rethinking-merger-rationale-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Not so fast &#8211; Rethinking Merger Rationale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Value Chain fragmentation offers new opportunities for making merger integration efforts more effective. Instead of integrating entire companies, it becomes possible to adopt a differentiated approach towards the different parts of the Value Chain according to their strategic contribution.<\/strong><br \/>\nTraditionally merger integration worked on the premise that companies had to be integrated as quickly and smoothly as possible. When the vertical integrity of the Value Chain is no longer a given however, a lot of freedom is created for taking a much more differentiated approach. Why integrate functions you might want to outsource anyway? Why integrate something which can and will be partnered with 3rd parties anyway?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/epix35.com\/gillisjonk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/EA2005Not_So_Fast.pdf\">EA &#8211; Not so fast &#8211; rethinking merger integration<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Value Chain fragmentation offers new opportunities for making merger integration efforts more effective. Instead of integrating entire companies, it becomes possible to adopt a differentiated &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,54,53],"tags":[43,42,38],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-valuechains","category-various","tag-merger-integration","tag-mergers-and-acquisitions","tag-strategy-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/epix35.com\/gillisjonk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/epix35.com\/gillisjonk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/epix35.com\/gillisjonk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/epix35.com\/gillisjonk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/epix35.com\/gillisjonk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/epix35.com\/gillisjonk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"http:\/\/epix35.com\/gillisjonk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/epix35.com\/gillisjonk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/epix35.com\/gillisjonk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/epix35.com\/gillisjonk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/epix35.com\/gillisjonk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}