Summary: J Neely, Partner at Strategy&, discusses the execution-related risks inherent in all transactions - the nine deadly sins of mergers. More than two-thirds of the transactions that fail do so at the execution stage. The keys to avoiding this fate are understanding the nine deadly sins and establishing a program integration team early in the merger process that can address them. Originally published as: Execution-related risks inherent in all transactions, Booz Allen Hamilton, 2006.
