Posted by Riva Gianluca on January 30, 2002 at 11:09:31:

In Reply to: KM, Business and Mergers: A question posted by Martyn R Jones on January 30, 2002 at 05:50:41:

Hi Martyn,
usually a merger is the attempt to unify complementary skills. It's true that is not always that easy. Maybe the two companies were strong in different fields of IT (for istance one in groupware and the second in Database) and the merger is an attempt to complement these abilities. Sometimes they try to complement different functional strenghts: perhaps one is strong in IT and the second in marketing, for istance. Again, it may be an attempt to gain knowledge around two different markets (if the companies don't operate in the same nation). If none of these explanations is true, I may begin wondering if the operation is very sound...
Kindest Regards

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