What Really Makes Integrations Succeed: A PMI Expert's Honest Take

Clément Ducreux has spent over a decade leading post-merger integrations as an independent advisor. In this conversation, he gets specific about what that work actually looks like: how to move when synergy assumptions break down after signing, why protecting operations becomes its own failure mode, and how you build credibility fast when you have no institutional authority to fall back on. He also gets into the harder questions - watermelon reporting, disengaged sponsors, competing priorities, and the cultural signals that most integration plans miss entirely. No generic best practices. Just what he's learned from being in the room. Connect with Clément Ducreux:   / clementducreux   Find senior independent M&A and integration professionals: https://www.fintalent.com