Xansa (A)
Subject
Accounting, Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Authors / Editors
Lingblad M;Birkinshaw J
Biographies
Publication Year
2002
Abstract
This case describes the current strategic challenges facing Xansa, a medium sized IT Services Company headquartered in the UK. Under its former name, FI Group, the company had grown successfully during the 1990s as a major supplier of IT outsourcing services. Faced with a changing marketplace, FI Group had undertaken a series of bold acquisitions in the late 1990s. Now, in mid-2000, the company faced the challenge of integrating these acquired companies in an uncertain marketplace, while also considering its future growth options outside the UK. A further challenge was how to do all of this without damaging the distinctive culture and organisation that had made the company so successful over the last decade.
Topic List
Strategy, Mergers & Acquistition, Strategic Change
Industry
Computer/IT Services
Publication Event Date
2000
LBS Case Number
CS-02-007
Location
London - UK
Publication Organisation Size
Medium
Project Funder
Leverhulme
Available on ECCH
No
