McKinsey: The five types of successful acquisitions

This community seems to frown on consultants and the Big Four a lot. How do we feel about McKinsey research and white papers like this?

F McKinsey and their consulting lot.

The company I was at prior hired our CEO from McKinsey and what a joke that turned out to be. All yakity yak and no action.

He kept talking about scaling up, and hiring people so that we could scale the business. We ended up with more C levels than actual staff. We just wanted to ship features and stick to a working game plan, but he ended up fucking that all up with all his excel spreadsheets and power point presentations. One minute we are this, the next we were this other thing.

He nearly analyzed the company into the ground. Thank god he got fired, unfortunately it was after I quit (because of him).

I'm sorry but this is consulting BS. Any acquisition could be framed under one or even several of these types.

I remember reading the giddy business articles on HP+Compaq being a "transformational" merger and we all know where that went.