According to the statistics, mergers in general have
had a proven history of failures. Furthermore, as
supported by the literature, the major reasons of
failure are IT integration, cultural integration,
governance, and business process. There
is no structured process or methodology present for
managing mergers of equals from an IT perspective.
The reason for the absence of such a structured
systematic approach is that few companies go through
the process often enough to develop a pattern and
hence a systematic approach. This research is trying
to reduce the failure rate by managing...