Our Approach
Assessing the financial side of due diligence is essential to any M&A process. Yet, a due diligence process that overlooks cultural fit almost certainly leads to a painful and unsuccessful acquisition journey.
At Quirk, we help leaders assess the cultural fit and improve acquisition integration. We provide a pre-acquisition analysis, which identifies misalignment, people issues and skills gaps across organisational cultures. We do this assessment in various ways, from overt engagement to discreet enquiries, depending on the sensitivity of the acquisition process.
Post-acquisition, we use our Quirk App and focus groups to get an even deeper understanding of the organisational cultures, then design and deliver a bespoke integration package that addresses the gaps – through L&D, workshops and ‘6 thinking hat’ sessions.
Our approach’s benefit is bringing both organisations together based on mutual understanding and reducing the time lag from acquisition to full performance.
What we Provide
As part of our acquisition packages, we provide structured culture and leadership due diligence and post-deal integration support that helps leaders surface people-related risk early and accelerate value creation after completion. As part of our packages Quirk can provide:
- Hard data on culture and leadership – for your business and the target – to pre-empt where it will go wrong when the two sides come together
- HR analysis to show where benefits, incentives, leave allowances etc are out of kilter, creating financial risk
- Integration workshops that smooth the cultural misalignments out
- Leadership training for both sides, helping to ensure minimal loss of key talent post-acquisition
- Advisory on best practice, based on our experience with over 20 M&A deals in the last 4 years
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One of the most critical risks when acquiring small and medium size businesses is people and understanding who they are. We now consider the Quirk People and Culture Due Diligence an essential part of every acquisition we do.
Dom Hawes
Group CEO, Selbey Anderson Group
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