Carve-Out Management Office

We can help you in managing the overall process of the carve-out identifying and controlling risks and critical situations.

Client challenges

• The time required to keep track of all the activities going on in the project
• Business as Usual to be managed while the carve-out is going on
• High and/or unknown carve-out risks
• Unquantified carve out costs
• Undefined level of integration of the target into the seller organization
• Employee retention
• TSA management

How we can help

• Prepare a high-level plan to be shared and agreed with all the stakeholders
• Asset sale preparation
• Establishing team, processes and work schedule to manage carve-out activities
• Communication program to support the transition period
• Identify risks and manage them

Key benefits

Clear reporting to Board on carve-out plans

• Risk mitigation
• Clearly defined governance model, with defined roles and responsibilities
• Defining what end-state look like for the target
• Key staff identification and retention
• Business continuity

Lessons learned

• Teams often not aligned with a clear common goal
• Poor mapping of TSA dependencies
• Ineffective management of TSA’s
• Missing /Postponing Milestones
• Under-resourcing of CMO
• Inadequate testing before “go live
• Lack of prioritization resulting in too many “unnecessary” changes