By Joseph Byrum, CTO of Big House Enterprise. Originally published in Forbes Technology Council, March 24, 2026.
The integration battle determining synergy capture happens algorithmically in the first six months. The companies that engineer it now capture what the deal promised. Ronald Coase answered this in 1937. Firms exist because organizing activity internally costs less than coordinating through market transactions. Every acquisition reduces transaction costs by bringing capabilities under unified direction.
This is an excerpt. Read the full article on Forbes: Why Operational Integration Isn't Enough: How Algorithmic Fragmentation Kills Post-Merger Synergies.
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