Hi, this is Greg Kielstrom. Welcome to season three of the Agile World, where we discuss customer

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book, The Agile Workforce, now available on Amazon and other retailers. My name is Greg Kielstrom,

and I'm the host of the Agile World podcast. Today we're going to talk about Agile M&A,

applying iterative processes and systems in place in order to better ensure the success of a

merger or acquisition. To help me discuss this topic, I'd like to welcome Chris von Bogdandy,

senior director at Slalom. Chris, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me, Greg.

Why don't you start off a little bit by describing what you do at Slalom?

I focus on M&A, and I focus supporting our clients from pretty much the time that the financial

due diligence has done, the deal has not yet announced, and so I'm focusing on the

operational diligence piece integration planning, and then I take our clients through a day one

of the acquisition all the way through when the integration is done. So I'm building out a team

for that, and all aspects of the integration, whether it's the technology piece, or it's setting up

the central integration management office, IMO, or supporting other functions like sales and

marketing of finance. Great. Well, yeah, look at looking for an attacking through this. Let's

start off by defining what we mean by Agile M&A. So how would you define it?

So I'm going a little bit outside of the traditional definition of Agile, like Scram module,

etc. So for me, integration is an iterative process where on day one of the close of the

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