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Global merger and acquisitions in the insurance Therefore, Cognizant feels it is necessary to focus
sector have reached all time record of 148.7 attention on issues such as
billion dollars in 2008, up 34 per cent from the
previous year. Strategic activity accounted for 97 ■ Development of a new management structure
per cent of total activity in the industry, as for the new, larger organization; especially over-
compared to 83 per cent in 2007. Insurance coming leadership problems in very large units
companies in the United States made the
■ Bringing together formerly separate units from
maximum number of acquisitions. US-based
both former organizations
insurers made acquisitions worth $71.6 billion, up
by 102 per cent from the deals in 2007. Deals ■ Allocation of clear roles and responsibilities in
worth over $10 billion each accounted for nearly the emergent merged entity
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■ Communication of the new strategic objectives Pre-merger Planning
and the new vision of the merged organization ■ Undertake Due diligence and Assessment of
■ Implementation of a new shared corporate integration effort
culture and management culture ■ Finalize the Insurance portfolio for re-alignment
■ Integration of the multiple IT organizations based on the list from ‘Target Assessment’
■ Reduction in redundancy and duplication of IT phase
systems ■ Identify possible change in company rating and
■ Harmonization of management compensation anticipate the rating agency reaction
and management incentive systems ■ Structure the deal to best monetize the assets
■ Overcoming of language barriers and country ■ Plan for Day One and conduct internal dry runs
specific cultural differences Planning for M&A
■ Overcoming of staff’s suspiciousness of the ■ Pair IT and business across merged entity to
other organization form cross functional teams to develop
■ Knowledge transfer among units that are to be detailed area wise integration plan & prepare
integrated for joint IT governance
■ Maintenance of customer and intermediary ■ Conduct joint dry runs and perfect execution
relationships during integration plans
■ Employees who fear being earmarked redun- ■ Enable communication to all stakeholders
dant ■ Provide BAU services (Helpdesks, Production
■ Impact on the existing corporate culture support, System availability, Scalability, etc)
■ Implement execution plans and programs cov-
Cognizant’s IT Integration Approach
ering functional areas, applications, data and
during M&A
infrastructure elements
Cognizant’s roadmap to support clients during ■ Enable fulfillment of regulatory and legal
Merger and Acquisition transaction has
requirements
structured mile stones and processes to
continuously raise the bar in order to execute ■ Complete Phase 1 of consolidation of book of
effectively. business, migration of data and customers,
product rationalization, infrastructure consoli-
Target Assessment dation
■ Identify and assess sources of synergy (cost ■ Enable cross-selling and up-selling
and revenue), costs for synergy extraction and ■ Refine and detail IT governance plans
accrual of long term benefits ■ Fine tune the execution plans
■ Analyze the existing system architecture
to decide if it is ready to accommodate the Execution
systems of the target organization. In an insur- Effective senior management team for execution
ance industry merger, this would also include
analysis of the fitment of various products in
■ Common Vision and Strategy Workshops
the portfolio of the merging companies ■ Experiential Learning Workshops
■ Assess existing staff skills and carry out ■ Creating effective governance groups
adequate resource planning, a product re-
New culture supporting new enterprise strategy
alignment exercise might also be carried out
■ Planning Participation
■ At the end of this phase, the IT organization
articulates the principles that would guide ■ Team Launch Workshops
the integration decisions, system integration ■ Coaching
strategy and approximate timelines for ■ Interactive simulations
achieving each milestone of integration
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Meet integration and business operation goals Unlocking Value
■ Implement the new organization design & IT ■ Integrate to unlock the true potential of the
governance plans assets through the synergistic combinations
■ Execute HR policies, procedures and processes identified from the ‘target assessment’ phase
that support the Guiding Principles ■ Unlock value based on optimal levels of appli-
■ Implement business processes that match cus- cation and infrastructure rationalization (in-
tomer, cost, quality and employee satisfaction line with business model)
goals ■ Achieve strategic business agility based on
■ Complete phase 2 of consolidation of book of plug and play IT and Business com7ponents
business, product rationalization, application ■ Stress test the strong foundation developed
integration and rationalization, Infrastructure for future M&A and strengthen as necessary
consolidation
Deliver on Targets
■ Implement the post ‘Execution phase’ plans
■ Complete Phase 3 of Application integration
and rationalization, and Infrastructure consoli-
dation
■ Enable automatic consolidation of Book of
Business based on Straight-Through-
Processing
■ Comprehensively implement IT Governance
plans
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Partnering Clients for IT Integration during M&A
General System consolidation System modernization strategy at ■ Reduced system complexity by rationalization
& modernization the enterprise level for multiple of number of policy administration platforms
Insurer companies with different business from 15 to 5 and claims platforms from 7 to 3
strategy
in US models and spanning across all ■ Reduced maintenance cost by around 15-25%
core insurance process
Infrastructure Integration of infrastructure ■ Reduced cost by more than 1 million USD spent
Large Life Integration and of acquired company and per month towards transmission services
Insurer in US systemizing corporate decommissioning the system ■ Increased productivity due to standardized
and institutional of acquired company tools and products enterprise-wide.
functions
Post-merger Optimization of the business ■ Anticipated cost savings due to suggested con-
General business operations insurance portfolio by reducing solidation of 12 products from 4 lines of busi-
Insurer consolidation the number of products and ness unto another existing business platform
platforms used across the business ■ Expected increase in cross-selling and
in US units and consolidate streamlined marketing due to consolidated
set of products and supporting platforms
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