Accenture study: IT enables 60 percent of post-merger transactions, crucial in the realm of M&A. IT and business executives have significantly different views about integration, authors say. Culture is not a factor to be anticipated in a merger, they say; integration of two IT cultures does not appear to be significant. But IT “cultural integration” is an important if unequally acknowledged success factor in integration, study finds. In the U.S. and Europe, IT executives were twice as optimistic as business executives, they said.”]

