I wanted to share our latest podcast, an interview with Ian Wakeford of the London Stock Exchange Group. LSEG is a serial acquirer of businesses that operate in the ‘weeds’ of the financial services sector, providing technology based solutions for existing challenges, innovating around product set across the capital markets and developing a truly global reach and capability for investors.
LSEG has always been acquisitive! Despite a few missteps in the early 00s, it has grown inorganically in a very mature market, surrounded by large and highly capable competitors.
Ian talks about the challenges of leadership focus, tech debt, integration consistency and people / change. It’s definitely worth a listen.
Let me know your thoughts.
https://theagilegorilla.com/podcast/2024/8/29/18-the-challenges-of-serial-acquisition
Categories: C suite leadership, Change management, Communication, Functional Leadership, Implementation, Mergers & acquisitions, post acquisition integration, Post merger integration, Prioritisation, Regulations, Strategy, Transformation
Tags: Behavioural change, change management, communications, Complexity, culture, customer experience, Customer retention, Decision making, internal communications, Merger integration, Mergers and acquisitions, relationship management, stakeholder management, strategy implementation
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