EVP For Platform Companies Preparing For Inorganic Growth
Building a Scalable Foundation for Success
Scaling through acquisitions offers platform companies immense opportunities to expand operations, enter new markets, and strengthen competitive positioning. However, managing multiple add-ons while maintaining operational continuity and achieving synergies is a complex challenge. At EVP, we provide the expertise, tools, and strategies platform companies need to confidently grow through M&A.
How We Support Platform Companies
Establish Integration Management Offices (IMO)
We help platform companies build IMOs designed to streamline the integration of add-ons, ensuring consistency and scalability for future growth.
Assess Integration Readiness
Using our iCAT (Integration Capability Assessment Tool), we evaluate your company’s ability to manage acquisitions and identify areas that require attention before taking on new add-ons.
Leverage Integration Essentials
Our IMO-as-a-Service (IMOaaS) includes pre-populated playbooks, dashboards, and frameworks to guide every aspect of your integration process, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks.
Improve Integration Performance
With our iPAT (Integration Performance Assessment Tool), we analyze past integration efforts to uncover strengths, address gaps, and create actionable strategies for future success.
Align Systems, Processes, and Cultures
We facilitate alignment across key functions such as IT, HR, and operations, ensuring seamless integration while preserving each brand’s unique identity and strengths.
Prioritize Actions for Scalable Growth
Our strategies prioritize integration activities that deliver the greatest impact, enabling platform companies to scale efficiently while mitigating risks.
Why Choose Us?
Focus on Scalability
Solutions that enable platform companies to build a repeatable, scalable integration strategy.
Proven Playbooks
Pre-populated playbooks and dashboards designed to guide integration efforts.
Tailored Tools
Access to powerful tools like iCAT and iPAT for readiness assessment and performance optimization.
Expertise in Platform Growth
Decades of experience helping platform companies manage complex integrations, having completed more than 120 M&A transactions.
Services for Platform Companies
Integration Planning
Integration Execution
Ongoing Advisory Services
Case Study
Integrating Multiple Newly Acquired Companies
The objectives included forming a weekly IMO and Steering Committee, adapting our pre-populated playbooks into Asana, developing KPI and reporting mechanisms, applying agile project management, and training an in-house resource to eventually manage the IMO.
Ready to Scale Confidently Through Acquisitions?
Position your platform company for success with the tools and expertise to manage complex integrations seamlessly. Let us help you build a foundation for scalable, repeatable growth.