The Complete Professional Playbook for Functional Integration
If you’re leading or managing integration inside a merger or acquisition, this book is not optional — it’s essential. Unlike typical M&A books that focus on strategy, negotiation, or leadership philosophy, Functional Integration in Mergers & Acquisitions operates where real integration inside the functions.
FinanceHRSalesTechnologyOperations and AdministrationCustomer ExperienceLegal and ComplianceProcurement and Supply ChainOperational ExcellenceInnovation and R&DOrder Fulfillment and DeliveryMarketing and CommunicationsThese are the workstreams where value is captured — or lost — during every M&A deal. This field guide gives CEOs, integration leaders, functional executives, and private equity operators a complete professional blueprint for sequencing, executing, and stabilizing integration across every functional area.
Inside, you’ll
✅ The 7-Stage Professional Integration Framework ✅ Functional Integration Playbooks across every major business function ✅ Structured workstream models for real-world integration execution ✅ Synergy, risk, and sequencing models to guide complex decision making ✅ Practical templates, tools, and metrics for functional integration governance
This is not a book of theory. This is your functional integration operating manual—written for real-world M&A execution.
Whether you’re leading your first acquisition or managing a complex integration portfolio, this field guide gives you the structure, clarity, and professional discipline to integrate companies with confidence.
The selling price on this book implies premium content, reviewed and edited by competent peers. This is 300 pages of incomplete sentences and lists of bullet points. It's an outline for a really long book that never got finished. Sure there are paragraphs of complete thoughts, which restate that every department is critical to a successful merger. Glad I had work pay for it.