Acquisitions: Getting it right in Silicon Valley February 21, 2008

Join Don Yakulis, Sr. Director SAP, & Jim Arena, Sr. Director Business Objects, as they discuss Silicon Valley companies like Cisco, Agilent, Google, SAP and Business Objects and how they look for the best methods to integrate technologies and matured companies to leapfrog competitors in a significant execution gamble. Depending on the study, a full 65-75% of mergers ultimately fail to meet the promised benefits. During the presentation you will learn the results of a series of best practices sharing meetings with senior and mid-level executives at these companies. You will learn how they view different acquisition types and how their integration planning and execution changes.

We will also share our own experiences in integrating companies and what strategic and practical challenges executives and program teams have faced well and lessons learned.

What you will learn and take away from this session:
* What do the best companies do to anticipate and increase their success rate against the Deal yardstick?
* What expectations and investment from senior leadership is absolutely essential to get the strategic value, based on leading practices?
* How do the best companies align and sustain focus against expected and unexpected marketplace, organizational, political and time pressures?

ASP Members and Affiliates $25; Non-member Guests $35; Students $25; All On-Site $40.

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