IT Merger Project

When your company acquires or merges with another company, the merger of IT assets and systems becomes a large and time-sensitive project that can easily overwhelm leanly-staffed IT teams. There are many strategic and tactical risks that threaten your employees’ productivity and morale during a sensitive period. Moyo Group has experience in planning and leading IT merger projects to produce the needed results on the required date. Our complete teams include expertise in IT strategy and leadership, project management, IT architecture, system administration and end user/desktop support with expertise across a broad range of technologies. Our team members are permanent full-time employees, not contractors we have hired for the project. This reduces the overall risk by ensuring that we know the abilities of each individual are experienced in working together as an effective team. You can also take advantage of our experience by leveraging our templates for many of the plans, forms and communication templates we have developed for previous projects. And since we are very familiar with the constrained budgets of emerging and mid-sized companies, you can count on our ability to perform the project efficiently with a right-sized approach.

Our IT merger projects often include:

  • Working with executives and business process owners to identify requirements and get project buy-in
  • Creating a company-wide detailed project plan and budget
  • Anticipating breakdowns and creating contingency plans
  • Creating a test plan
  • Creating a communication plan to make sure all stakeholders and roles are sufficiently informed
  • Developing roles and responsibilities, including business users needed to test systems, clean data, etc.
  • Assessing the technologies and systems that should survive and those which should be retired
  • Designing the “to-be” IT architecture
  • Detailed plan for application migration/consolidation
  • Detailed design of the IT infrastructure including server room layout, workstation wiring
  • Creating an hour by hour execution script, with dependencies, for the final cutover
  • Backing up all data
  • Staffing the small army of people needed for the cutover process
  • Running the final cutover with expert communication and coordination skills
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