People-Centric M&A – From Employee Experience to Integration Excellence

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 08:45:00 +0300
Business / economics, Science, Working life

The Nordic financial service provider Rantalainen Group is using People Risk Analytics™ to enhance its M&A integrations at both operational and strategic levels. A seamless flow of actionable insights starts from each employee’s emotions and perspectives during integrations. This approach extends to the strategic landscape of the entire post-merger integration process, fostering fast, inclusive, and sustainable growth.

Rantalainen Group’s Senior Vice President of M&A, Kimmo Martikainen, emphasizes the significance of people in their rapid inorganic growth: “The value of our business and acquisitions is in people and their clients. To succeed, it’s crucial not only to respect the often contradictory employee emotions but to understand their reasons and consider them in your actions. It all comes down to the viewpoints: What does this integration mean for me? Is there a future for me? Do I belong here?”

To gain this critical understanding, Rantalainen Group has used People Risk Analytics™, a science- and AI-driven Finnish-Swiss innovation, in over a dozen M&A integrations since 2022. This digital process asks employees three key questions at multiple stages during each integration. Its advanced emotion, behavior, and M&A intelligence reveals people risk levels, uncovers root causes, and offers action recommendations. These insights enable decisions and actions to mitigate employee turnover and productivity loss, while cultivating inclusive integrations and remaining attentive to the issues and opportunities employees experience.

Unlocking Operational and Strategic Benefits in Post-Merger Integrations

The newly available features of the solution extend the benefits of these insights from the operational to the strategic level of the post-merger integration (PMI) process.

Martikainen explains: “By aggregating our data and results, we can now see valuable insights not only in different phases of a single integration but also across multiple integrations. For example, it reveals the most typical people risk factors in our integration process and how they evolve. At what stage of the change process should each issue be addressed? Are some issues fading away? What are the most significant factors that drive retention and productivity, and how can we emphasize them? Are we missing key opportunities to engage people or overlooking crucial threats that could lead to losing them? When you see the answers to these questions through your own data and visual illustrations, it really wakes you up.”

By utilizing this solution and collaborating with the developer of People Risk Analytics™, NayaDaya Analytics Inc., Rantalainen Group is gaining a competitive edge for its ambitious growth.

“What makes People Risk Analytics drive our M&A integration excellence is its seamless use of data, analytics, and actionable insights at both operational and strategic levels. The solution builds a clear, comprehensive view of the human factor in our integrations in a business-critical and sustainable way, making it possible to learn from both successes and mistakes like never before,” Martikainen says.

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Further Information

Petri Järvinen, CEO, Partner, NayaDaya Analytics, tel. +348 45 238 5537, petri.jarvinen@nayadaya.com

Timo Järvinen, Co-Founder, Value Creator, NayaDaya Analytics, tel. +358 40 505 7745, timo.jarvinen@nayadaya.com

Kimmo Martikainen, Senior Vice President, M&A, Rantalainen Group, tel. +358 40 555 8081, kimmo.martikainen@rantalainen.fi

Rantalainen Group is Finland’s leading expert organisation in the financial management and payroll administration services business. Its 25,000 customer companies have the expertise of more than 1,700 top experts. Rantalainen offers comprehensive and modern financial and payroll administration services, as well as versatile expert services in areas such as taxation, CFO services, BI reporting and HR. The company serves more than 60 locations in Finland and Sweden and provide each of its customers with personal expert support. Discover more at https://www.rantalainen.fi/en/