What's the biggest challenge in M&As?
Regulatory hurdles
Cultural integration80%
Valuation discrepancies20%
Technological assimilation
Others (comment below)
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Regulatory hurdles
Cultural integration80%
Valuation discrepancies20%
Technological assimilation
Others (comment below)
Sales/Marketing23%
Competitive Analysis35%
Product Innovation23%
Training8%
Business Forecasting6%
Other (please note in the comments)1%
Lack of clear strategy2%
Siloed stakeholders27%
Insufficient resources48%
Internal resistance to change12%
Inadequate technology6%
Something else (comment below) 2%
No selling.
No recruiting.
No self promotion.
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Each organization tries to show the best side of it. In doing so, there are significant risks that figures are inflated, dreams are quantified into future inflows and the valuation is not correct. Secondly, the negatives are either hidden below the positives or they not highlighted appropriately.