M&A and Human Capital
The benefit of combining M&A and Human Capital.
Human capital is your company’s greatest asset.
The most important asset at your company isn’t something you can put your hands on. It isn’t equipment or physical plant, and it isn’t data technology or intellectual property. The most valuable part of your company is the people-the human capital-and any plans to move your business forward have to start here.
Yet today’s business leaders are often running a full time sprint just to keep up with the day-to-day demands of business. This means that the human capital-the single most important asset a company needs to take the next step in growth and innovation is often under used, or under developed.
A successful M&A consider the human element. Some of the most popular stories in the business press are about mergers and acquisitions. And why not? Unlike standard financial reports with numbers, analyses, and projections, M&As include a sense of personal drama, almost like a television mini-series. Will the combination actually happen? Who will be in charge? Will they live happily ever after? Who will win and who will lose?
What’s most interesting about all this deal-making is that the difference between success and failure is often not a matter of strategy, logic, or money, but rather of relationship, culture, politics, power and emotions.