Allied Management Consulting and Accounting is a publicly listed company that provides a range of management consulting and accounting products. Following a recent merger with a smaller company, the accounting department that you work in is being merged with the same department from the smaller company. You are to be Project Manager for this project.

The purpose of the merger is to achieve some economies of scale and re-skilling outcomes, employees from the other company are to be moved from their current work-site (on the other side of the city) and relocated onto the same floor as your current work group at Allied.

There are currently 23 people working in your department. There are 12 employees that need to be integrated from the other company. It has been determined that the final, integrated department, will have a total workforce of 31 employees. This will require the selection of 4 employees to be made redundant from the integrated work team.

While your work-group is fairly advanced in the use of computer systems, the other company kept a lot of paper records. These paper records require rationalisation and conversion to electronic copies. The timeline of the project is 18 weeks.

Your project team will manage the integration of 12 employees from the other company, including the up skilling training required for them to use your work systems, and the electronic conversion of the paper records.

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To effectively manage this merger and integration project you can follow these steps 1 Project Initiation Stakeholder Analysis Identify all stakeholders involved in the merger and integration This inc... View the full answer