Thursday, April 17, 2008

IBM and the Art of Acquisitions | Xconomy

There's no way that an acquisition can be done without challenges. (Having my job go away when IBM acquired Rational, for example, hit a nerve.) Nevertheless, IBM is one of the few companies that does a good job with acquisitions. The Rational acquisition, I believe, was helped by the experience that Rational had in the past. It had done several acquisitions in a few short years and built a successful company and brand.
Posted by Karl Hakkarainen at 4:06 PM

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Yes, I do think your right there. IBM doesn't let acquisitions change IBM's intrinsic corporate environment, only add to them. Also, they seem to keep successful things in place well- as opposed to many corporations that seem to feel as if they need to change everything when they get their hands on a new business.

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