Coming out of the first year of the merger, what new opportunities should the new “Defining Entity” pursue in order to grow business?
EDS Market Strengths ➢ Heath care ➢ Insurance ➢ Communications ➢ Electronics ➢ Aerospace ➢ Defense industries
A.T. Kearney Market Strengths ➢ Manufacturing ➢ Consumer products ➢ Transportation ➢ Chemical pharmaceuticals
Combined Strengths ➢ Automotive ➢ Financial services ➢ Energy ➢ Retail
When companies combine/merge the whole objective is to gain new opportunities, gain market share, grow the business, to become more innovative and to improve product offerings, utilizing/sharing the existing resources and data. From the case
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I would then break them into territories two by two, manager to manager, bringing the other to customer meetings not only selling their original piece but the whole concept of our combined solutions. Utilizing the expertise of the other to gain the customers loyalty and commitment that we are the best company that can offer you more bang for you buck.
EDS acquired “one of the world’s largest and most respected global management consulting firms” (pg 524). This is on A.T. Kearney’s website “ A.T. Kearney is a global team of forward-thinking, collaborative partners that delivers immediate, meaningful results and a long-term transformational advantage to our clients and colleagues. Since 1926, we have been trusted advisors on CEO-agenda issues to the world’s leading organizations across all major industries and sectors.” http://www.atkearney.com. It would be an epic failure for both companies if EDS and A. T. Kearney could not make this merger work.
What sales management implications would the new “Defining Entity” face in getting the sales job done? As with every new merger, comes the combining of what the case referrers to as ego’s or individual company cultures. EDS has more international business then A. T. Kearney trying to merge on an international level would defiantly create several roadblocks. What maybe acceptable in one company, of course may not be
Economies of scale: Timken has started consolidating operations into global business units to reduce costs. They have expected annual savings of $80 million by the end of 2007 after Torrington’s acquisition.(case) As large size is usually expected to yield production economies if manufacturing operations can be amalgamated, marketing economies if similar distribution channels can be utilised, and financial economies if size confers access of capital markets on more favourable terms.(book).Moreover, by reducing the combined sales forces, Timken expected to realize significant purchasing synergies by giving much large volume to a reduced list of suppliers in exchange for price reductions. One analyst estimated that those
When a certain point is reached regarding a company’s success, a set of different opportunities arise and partnerships may unfold. However, with every possible strategy available, risks and benefits also come into play; without discarding any of them beforehand, every option is a strong candidate until a final decision is made. In this case study we will analyze the current business strategy pertaining
Merging with another organization has downfalls of destroying wealth from the merger. Considering the buying price is important when merging, spending too much on the merger will impound the value after the merger. Some mergers do not create wealth so capital is lost through the merger. There is no guarantee of financial gain and every formula considered with focus, just as with an acquisition. The final decision dictated by the variables. One company merging with another company takes the debt and losses of those companies in the new formed company.
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In my opinion, the best structure would be to merge the sales force because it would align with the mission and vision of the company. Indeed, the desired outcomes of the reorganization of the sale structure are to leverage any synergies created, reduce costs, maintain or improve customer service and reach, and to stay consistent with the mission and vision without affecting negatively the sales. Merging the sales force seems the more adapted solution according to the company’s objectives. However, I would also let the distributors’ sales force handle the small retailers in every industry and keep the large accounts for the internal sales team.
The main weakness of merging the two companies would be with the staff. There would be cultural changes, disengaged staff and moral decreases (Iveybusinessjournal.com, 2015). Reorganization would need to be done to
The acquisition of the management consulting firm A.T Kearney by an information technology firm EDS marked a significant move by
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Considering these facts, Honicker decided to leave senior management teams intact in the four companies and apply the necessary corporate changes. Honicker’s goal was to enable each company to provide their customers worldwide. Honicker had an EPM that worked well, and wanted to apply the same methodology or a modified version of it in each of the acquired companies, and to enable them to reach the same level of maturity in PM that Honicker had.
The change in management had direct implications for the outsourcing relationship. Dennis Stolkey, a Division Vice President with EDS’ Travel and Transportation Group (and the former account manager, for Continental), indicated that the outsourcing relationship between EDS and Continental had evolved through several stages. He recalled:
Sales: Sales are the units sales times the unit prices. These were because of the decisions made to have moderate production units and inventory that gave advantage of sales to our customers and even those of the competitors when they stocked out before the end of the year without having excess inventories. Andrews had sales volume increase in 2022, 2023, and 2024 as $203,475,173, $233,975,783, and $269,095,481, respectively. Relatively with the top competitor, Baldwin had $223,590,908, $444,898,919, and $242,259,180 in the corresponding years as Andrews. Andrews made more revenue from sales in 2024 against Baldwin with almost 10 % higher than Baldwin but Baldwin had more sales volume in 2022 and 2023 the sales volumes of
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We would like to have the first mover advantage and expand our footprint to regional markets