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J. Neely, a senior managing director for M&A at Accenture, is cautiously optimistic about his area for the coming year, and it’s perhaps no surprise that he says companies that succeed will be those that, yes, you guessed it, lean in on AI as a tool to boost decision-making.
Neely says companies that thrive the most will be those that embrace AI and focus on their tech investments.
Watch particularly the role of technology in acquisitions, and especially generative AI and agentic AI, “which is actually an incredible opportunity for companies to think about how to do deals better, including the process of doing deals,” he said in an interview with the WSJ Leadership Institute.
“But I think more importantly that the real icing on the cake, and maybe the cake itself, is actually how to sort of leverage that technology, and create more value in doing deals,” he says.
“Agentic gets really interesting if you think about why integrate and then transform. When you actually might be able to think about how do we integrate to a new best practice just out of the gate. If you're going to think about how to bring two organizations together, you probably should be really thinking about what's the role of agents in that, and how can we actually make our economics stronger by combining human plus machine,” Neely says.
For recent reading on M&A and deals, including Paramount’s bid for Warner (see below), read on:
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