Agile Business Architecture and Mergers & Acquisitions

The EA Principals Agile Business Architecture and Mergers & Acquisitions (“M&A”) course provides you with the knowledge and understanding to plan, prioritize, deliver, and manage your corporate M&A strategy successfully bridging collaboration between IT and business stakeholders for a smoother integration between the acquirer and the acquired using the methodology shown in this book entitled “Practical Guide to Agile Strategy Execution”.

This course will allow you to become more customer-driven and more effective with your M&A strategy planning and integration using agile business architecture.

This course includes 5 sessions to be offered in 2 days from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM Eastern time. Each session is about 2 to 4 hours long and includes a slide deck of at least 120 slides, with diagrams, videos, quizzes, and survey questions. This course also includes 3 examples of at least 100 slides each in PDF format. The first example will be about elaborating a due diligence plan to investigate potential acquisitions. The second example will be about the business and IT integration plan and delivery once a targeted company is acquired. As for the third example, it will be about exploring the planning and architecture that should take place on the acquired company’s side. Each session will be recorded.

Course Outline

Here is the table of content for each one of the five sessions of this course.

Session 1 – About Mergers and Acquisitions

Introduction to the Concept of Mergers and Acquisitions
M&A Strategies
Screening Candidates
Hostile Takeovers
Projected Synergies
Value of the Transaction Methodologies
Key M&A financial ratios
Payment forms
Business Due Diligence
IT Due Diligence

Session 2- A Summary of Business Architecture

Business Design and Strategies – the Basics
Providing Customer-Driven Value
Product Architecture
Finding Participating Stakeholders
Finding Required Business Objects/Information Concepts

Capability Mapping
Assessing and Prioritizing Capabilities
Aligning Applications to Capabilities

Session 3- Due Diligence (Theory and Example)

Assessing the business capabilities of the acquiring company (identifying strengths and weaknesses)
Business Evaluation for each Targeted Acquisition
IT Evaluation and Recommendation for each Targeted Acquisition
Business Due Diligence on Acquired Company
IT Due Diligence on Acquired Company
Recommendation on Completing the Acquisition (or not)

Session 4- M&A Integration (Theory and Example)

Assessing the business capabilities of the acquiring company (identifying strengths and weaknesses)
Assessing the business capabilities of the acquired company (identifying strengths and weaknesses)
Selecting Application(s) to Keep, Decommission, or Enhance
Selecting Database(s) to Keep, Merge, or Enhance
Integration Initiatives/Projects and Business Outcomes
Scenario Elaborations
Project Financial Analysis
Building a Final Integration Roadmap (short term vs longer term)
Agile Delivery (Theory and Example)

Session 5- Planning and Architecture by the Acquired Company (Theory and Example)

Assessing the best companies to be acquired by (identifying strengths and weaknesses)
Assessing the business capabilities of the acquired company (identifying strengths and weaknesses)
Selecting Application(s) to Keep, Decommission, or Enhance
Selecting Database(s) to Keep, Merge, or Enhance
Building a Draft Integration Roadmap (short term vs longer term)

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As a specialist training provider and active contributors to the Enterprise Architecture industry,

when you train with EA Principals you will receive genuine advantages other training

organizations are simply unable to provide:

Subject Matter Experts:

All our classes are curated and taught by industry experts with long standing careers in the disciplines that they teach.

Industry Knowledge:

EA Principals is one of the first training providers accredited to facilitate this training course.

Individual Attention:

We pride ourselves on having a high instructor to student ratio to ensure you receive as much individual attention as desired.

Cancellation Policy

A 100% refund, minus a 5% processing fee, will be given to students who drop or withdraw from the EA Principals, Inc. class no later than the 21st day prior to the announced scheduled start date. No refund will be given within 21 days of the published start date. Students missing a portion of a class, due to emergencies or unforeseen circumstances, will be able to attend the next class on the same topic for the days missed, without additional fee. Students need not re-register; however, they must notify EA Principals, Inc. (by email or telephone), so the registration fee for the makeup class can be waived and class logistics provided.

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