Exploration & Production - Organizational Issues
Organizational issues: The largest challenge
The success of the merger will ultimately be determined by the effectiveness of the combined organizations.
This seemingly simple statement belies the many difficulties that will be encountered as the cultures of two organizations come face-to-face. “That’s how things are done around here” will be the refrain heard many times as workers struggle to find common ground in business processes, policies, practices, and organization roles and responsibilities.
Research has proven that 85 percent of the performance issues that are encountered in large, complex organizations are attributable to people, the way people work, and the emotional and political dynamics that are inevitable in large organizations.
MTG has 30 years of extensive experience in facilitating post-merger integration with some of the best-known companies in the oil & gas industry. We know the oil & gas industry and we have significant experience in helping large-scale organizations achieve and sustain performance excellence.
Among the many organization-related issues that must be addressed are: Redundancies, organization structure, physical site rationalization, consolidation of operations, asset rationalization, business process standardization, functional integration, leadership roles and policy, to name but a few.
