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Acquisition integrations are when the parent company takes over the target (acquired business), right? Well… not exactly.  There are different approaches used to merge, or integrate an acquisition. Here’s an overview of them, looking at it from our specialty of working with lower-mid and mid-size businesses (i.e. those with less than 1000 employees).

You’ve completed an acquisition, have an integration plan ready to go, and Day One has arrived: you’re ready to tell the world about the deal and the bright new future.  Let’s tell everyone, right? Not so fast… not everyone wants to hear the same message. Different groups of people have different perspectives and different interests. You need to create a Communication Plan to tell different audien...

When you acquired a business, you had an intention, a strategy, of what you wanted to do with it. For example, you wanted take advantage of a very specialized team and the product that they develop, so that you can increase sales revenue.  Acquiring a business is a set of intensive stressful activities that culminate in closing a deal. However, in many ways, buying a business is the easier part of...

Karl talks about the importance of pre-qualifying your sales prospects, and creating intelligent lead campaigns to maximize your closing efficiencies 

In this weeks segment, Karl talks to Terry Toomey on the status of business resources that are designed to help businesses grow and thrive, especially in rural America.

Business Class News has partnered with The Industry Hub to help new and existing businesses grow and scale.  Each month in 2023, BCN will showcase businesses that are either growing or just launching.  The Industry Hub will share tips and advice on how to succeed in business.  We will be giving you an advanced preview to an interactive program that is being launched, which has been developed for a...

Karl spoke to Janie Bordner, Executive Director of New Horizons and talked about the amazing vision and mission of the organization. Janie talks about their goals, and objectives and also about the amazing Celebrity Chef Smackdown event they are holding to raise funds so that they can achieve them. You can get more information by visiting their website Celebrity Chef Smackdown Event - https://newh...

Entrepreneurs designing solutions utilizing technology can get feedback, recognition and $20K from Tech Titans and enterprise companies on the cutting edge. In a new Grand Challenge, entrepreneurs submit an application which will be judged by representatives of technology companies, and finalists will be showcased for a virtual pitch in front of a panel of celebrity judges on Thursday, October 13,...

In this segment  extract Don Springer talks about the purpose of a board. You have got a board and you are doing a good job, but how do you raise our professionalism as board directors? How do we improve board composition? How do we focus on strategic vs. operational issues? How do we refine our board succession plans?  How should we use technology for our boards and our business? How do we improv...

We’ve got a board and we’re doing a good job, but how do we raise our professionalism as board directors? How do we improve board composition? How do we focus on strategic vs. operational issues? How do we refine our board succession plans?  How should we use technology for our boards and our business? How do we improve our M&A capability? How do we extend our network? How do we improve our ri...

In this segment of Link'd AM we focus on philanthropy and how non-profits can really benefit from having a team working with them to realize the potential.

The SMU Cox Graduate Entrepreneurship Club, founded in 2000, is a student-led organization dedicated to promoting innovation within the SMU community. The Cox Graduate Entrepreneurship club fosters opportunities for student club members to achieve their goals of starting and launching a viable business, exploring venture capital interest, supporting a startup, or inspiring entrepreneurial thinking...

Karl speaks with David Vincent, VP Product Strategy and Customer Engagement at Appsian, a Global ERP Security platform that monitors various levels of threat detection, controls and ensures that its customers are audit ready to be compliant in this very important part of a business - data protection. David talks about how businesses need to think not only of the protection of their customers data...

Be Visionary: Strategic Leadership in the Age of Optimization is a self-help, business leadership book that demonstrates to existing and aspiring leaders the positive impact of applying flexibility, creativity and decisiveness to achieve results - even in uncertain times. More importantly, this book helps leaders to understand that while business operations optimization may have value in certain c...

The White House recently urged private companies to bolster their cyber defenses, citing evolving intelligence suggesting the Russian government is exploring “options for potential cyberattacks” targeting U.S. critical infrastructure. Karl talks to Puranda Das,  the CEO and Co-founder of Sotero ( www.soterosoft.com ) and they discuss the challenges that CTO's and Security teams face when migr...

Karl talks with Valecia Harris, the current President of the Cox Graduate Entrepreneurship Club, and they talk about the SMU Business Accelerator Program. Both Business Class News and kNEXTis are proud to be media sponsors of the program. The previous SMU Business Plan Competition will now be replaced by the new Cox Graduate Entrepreneurship Club (CGEC) Business Accelerator Program. This program w...

Karl spoke with Finch Fulton, the VP of Policy and Strategy  at Locomation, and they had a fascinating conversation around their business model, and how it fits with the topics Business Class News has been showcasing - The Future of Our Workforce.  Finch Fulton joined Locomation in February 2021. He previously served at the US Department of Transportation under Secretary Elaine Chao from 2017-2021...

On this segment of Link'd AM, Karl talks with Mike Bright, Ph. D. who is Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Grove City College in Grove City, PA.  Grove City is a small (2500 students), Christian, liberal arts college with a strong commitment to balancing the liberal arts, science and technical degrees.  Karl and Dr. Bright talk about the current state of engineerin...