{"id":1657,"date":"2013-02-07T15:52:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T15:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2013-08-10T19:09:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T18:09:50","slug":"two-out-of-three-acquisitions-do-not-achieve-original-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/from-our-ma-consultants\/two-out-of-three-acquisitions-do-not-achieve-original-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Two of three acquisitions do not achieve original goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/maconsultantmini.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-40\" alt=\"m&amp;a consultant\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/maconsultantmini.jpg\" width=\"97\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a>Two of three acquisitions do not achieve original goals: important to take hard look at what is needed to get ready.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Extract from HBR Blog Network &#8211;\u00a0Ron Ashkenas: <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"articleBody\">\n<p><em>Are acquisitions part of your company&#8217;s growth plan? Odds are the answer is yes. In the first half of 2012, thousands of merger and acquisition deals were announced globally, worth more than $900 billion. And this was a slow year. Predictions are that 2013 will be even more active as companies that have stockpiled cash look to invest in new growth opportunities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2012 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved.<br \/>\n<strong>More &#8230;<\/strong> <a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/ashkenas\/2013\/02\/are-you-really-ready-for-an-ac.html?\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/ashkenas\/2013\/02\/are-you-really-ready-for-an-ac.html?\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/ashkenas\/2013\/02\/are-you-really-ready-for-an-ac.html?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of three acquisitions do not achieve original goals: important to take hard look at what is needed to get ready. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[40,43,41,42,94,95,15,44,45,106,107,109,70,73,71,72,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3561,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/3561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}