Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- IDC Opinion
- In This Study
- Situation Overview
- Figure: U.S. M&A Activity by Number of Deals over $50 Million in Value, 2002-2006
- Table: Top 10 M&A Deals Closed in 2006
- Table: Top 10 Acquiring Companies in 2006 by Number of Deals
- Figure: U.S. M&A Deals over $50 Million in Value by Sector, 2006
- Figure: Growth in the Number of U.S. Companies with More than 50 Employees, 2006
- Evaluating the Deal Opportunity
- Impact of Deal Type on Opportunity
- Horizontal Merger
- Table: M&A Postdeal IT Integration Spending Patterns by Deal Type
- Vertical Merger
- Conglomerate Acquisition
- Evaluating Deals by Company Characteristics
- Table: M&A Postdeal IT Integration Spending Patterns by Company Characteristics
- Industry Regulation
- Experience Acquiring Firms
- Value Chain Segmentation
- Industry Competition
- Deal Strategy of Cost-Cutting Synergies
- Commoditization of Business
- Identifying the IT Opportunities
- Table: Identifying Key IT Opportunities: Years 1-5 Postmerger
- Applying the Framework
- Table: Characteristics of the Bank of America Acquisitions of Fleet Bank and MBNA
- Figure: Bank of America Estimated IT Spending, 2003-2008
- Future Outlook
- Essential Guidance
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- Related Research
- Synopsis
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