Merger Integration Playbook overview

Manages post-merger integration execution across all functional workstreams -- standing up an integration management office with workstream leads, conducting Day-1 readiness assessments for IT, HR, finance, and operations, executing system-consolidation plans for overlapping tools and platforms, harmonizing compensation and benefits structures, migrating customer accounts and contracts to unified systems, aligning engineering practices and CI/CD pipelines, tracking synergy realization against deal-model targets, and managing cultural integration communication campaigns. Produces integration milestone tracker and synergy realization dashboard. Excludes deal negotiation and due diligence.