Post-Merger Integration Project Dashboard
This is a practical guide to building a project dashboard for a post-merger integration project — a visual summary of the project’s key metrics and status, adapted to the realities of integrating two organisations after a deal.
What a Project Dashboard is
A project dashboard is a visual summary of the project’s key metrics and status. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Project Dashboard. On a post-merger integration project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for a Post-Merger Integration project
Post-Merger Integration projects live or die on integrating two organisations after a deal. A well-built project dashboard gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how post-merger integration projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- Status indicators
- Schedule and cost KPIs
- Milestones
- Top risks/issues
Post-Merger Integration-specific considerations
Tailor the project dashboard to the risks that most often derail post-merger integration projects:
- Systems and process consolidation
- People and culture
- Realising synergies
Example
On a real post-merger integration project, the project dashboard would be shaped by integrating two organisations after a deal. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — systems and process consolidation, people and culture, realising synergies — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.