Strategy execution · mergers, acquisitions and carve-outs
Merger announced, or carve-out signed. Plans ready on day one.
Are we capturing the deal synergies, and which integration workstreams have quietly slipped?
The gap
Every handoff rebuilds what the last stage already knew.
A deal closes with a thesis, a synergy model, and an integration plan. Then two organizations, each with its own habits, get back to work. The dependencies now run between companies, and they surface as surprises. Priorities set at close quietly give way to how each side has always done things, and the erosion only shows at the synergy review.
The future organization is planned before close by a closed deal team, in slide decks and spreadsheets. On day one those plans have to be rebuilt into something hundreds of people can work from, and the reasoning behind them gets lost in the move.
The thesis lives in the deal model, and neither company keeps a system of record for what was decided at close.
What Tangible Growth is
Tangible Growth is that system of record: software and a methodology, built over a decade of doing this work by hand for large organizations. It holds the decisions you have made, connected to the teams carrying them and the dependencies between those teams. When the work drifts from what was decided, you see it while you can still act.
Strategic choices
The bets leadership made, which everything else traces back to.
Game Plans
How each team interprets its part in the strategy, how it works, and what it will not do.
Objectives and key results
With forward-looking confidence from the owner, not a status color computed after the fact.
Interlocks and commitments
What one team needs from another, raised and resolved instead of discovered late.
How it works
What changes for your integration
Plan the merged organization before you launch it
Start from the strategic choices behind the deal, so every integration workstream keeps its reason. With SAP Signavio, map the processes on both sides, then build the future organization step by step as Game Plans in a separate, confidential tenant that only the insiders can see at first. More leaders join as the circle widens and build their own plans, and the dependencies between the future teams are found and raised as interlocks before anyone depends on them. On day one, the people who will run the new organization step into plans that already exist, with owners and reasons attached.
One picture for both sides
At launch, communication is organized: Context Sharing explains why, what changes and what good looks like, and Individual Insights shows how the message lands, so you adjust where understanding is missing. After close, the integration holds together in one place: the deal thesis as explicit choices, the teams on both sides carrying them, and the dependencies that now cross company lines. When focus drifts back toward either company’s old ways, you see it in weeks.
The deal thesis is still measurable in year two
The integration team dissolves on schedule. The scorecard stays. Recorded at the start: the strategic choices the deal serves, the targets as objectives and key results, and who owns each one. Answerable two years later: which choice is behind, which gap never closed, who carries it now. For serial acquirers, what you learned in the last deal stays in the record and shapes the plan for the next one.
Carve-outs
Legal separation is a date. Operational separation takes years.
Legal separation is done. Which dependencies still tie us to the old company, and does the NewCo have a plan of its own for day one?
A carve-out is signed as a legal event. Then two organizations that shared processes, systems, suppliers and people have to stand on their own. The NewCo needs its own choices from day one, the remaining company has to refocus on what it kept, and shared services, systems and supplier contracts keep the two tied together for months, under transition agreements nobody sees whole. And operations have to keep running while the NewCo holds on to the supplier and customer relationships it needs to survive.
Tangible Growth records the separation thesis as explicit choices for both sides, so every separation workstream keeps its reason. What still ties the two together is recorded in each organization’s own plan, with owners and dates, until each one ends. And the NewCo gets a running start in its own confidential tenant, insiders first, then more leaders as the circle widens, so they arrive at day one with their own Game Plans instead of a blank page.
Where integration leaders use it
- Integration planning before close
- Synergy program delivery
- Operating model unification
- Ways-of-working and culture alignment
- Technology and systems consolidation
- Serial acquisition integration
- Carve-outs, spin-offs and de-mergers
- Operational separation after the legal date
Proven where it is hardest
SAP Signavio’s own story is an integration story. Facing a complex post-merger integration, organizational hypergrowth, and aggressive growth targets at the same time, it ran its strategy execution on Tangible Growth. The publicly documented outcomes: monthly releases, shorter cycles, and teams that understand the strategy they execute. Since April 2026, SAP Signavio and Tangible Growth are strategic partners.
SAP Signavio outcomes from the public case study at okrmentors.com (2026). Partnership per the joint release, PR Newswire, April 2026. Product views show example data.
What it stands on
- Truth from the source.
- Owners declare their own confidence, forward-looking and blame-free, and dependencies are raised by the people who feel them. Nobody reports on anyone else, so the picture stays current.
- Your data.
- ISO 27001, GDPR, SSO and SCIM. The instance is yours, and only the people you put in it can see anything in it.
- Your partners.
- The platform works with the consulting partners and system integrators you already have. Their output stays connected after the engagement ends.
Experience Tangible Growth
A half-hour hands-on tour of an enterprise in the middle of an integration, steered by the questions you bring. If it is not a fit, we will say so.
Also available through SAP: find Tangible Growth on the SAP Store.