Tom Casey, a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton specializing in information technology, discusses the importance of IT integration to merger success.

Casey explains why senior management tends to approach IT integration in a perfunctory, arms-length manner and makes suggestions for avoiding major IT integration mistakes.

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Gerald Adolph, senior vice president and head of the Mergers & Restructurings practice at Booz Allen Hamilton, explains on Mergercast by Booz Allen Hamilton why mergers are more successful today than they were over the past decade, when one-half to two-thirds of them failed.

Adolph attributes the change to a jump in the number of consolidation deals (rather than strategic deals), better pre-merger planning, and greater oversight from key stakeholders.

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