Divestitures and Spin-Offs

Chapter 1. Preface.- Chapter 2. Taming the Elephant - Introduction to Divestitures.- Chapter 3. Being a "Prepared Seller" and Identifying the "Right Buyer".- Chapter 4. Upping the Ante - Enhancing Deal Value.- Chapter 5. Defining the Deal Timeline - Balancing Legal, HR, IT and Finance.- Chapter 6. Slicing the Pie - Asset Allocation in Divestiture.- Chapter 7. Financial Aspects of Carve-Out.- Chapter 8. Clean Financial Separation.- Chapter 9. Building the Arsenal - Setting up an Effective Separation Team and Governance.- Chapter 10. Working under the Tent - Confidentiality and Restricted Information Disclosure.- Chapter 11. Getting Ready for Announcement - Kickoff Planning.- Chapter 12. Building the Execution Roadmap.- Chapter 13. Managing the People Side of Divestiture - Retention and Motivation.- Chapter 14. Shaking Things Up - Reorganizing.- Chapter 15. Legal Entity Operating Structure.- Chapter 16. Managing Banking and Treasury Implications during Divestiture.- Chapter 17. Legal andTax Aspects of Divestitures.- Chapter 18. Accelerating Divestitures through Minimal Rebranding.- Chapter 19. Managing Customer and Partner Transitions during a Separation.- Chapter 20. Managing the Application Separation Lifecycle.- Chapter 21. Simplifying IT Infrastructure Separation.- Chapter 22. Managing IT in Divestiture - Orchestration, Instrumentation and Measurement.- Chapter 23. Testing - Making the IT Separation Foolproof.- Chapter 24. Cutover - Getting Ready for the launch.- Chapter 25. Command Center - Setting up Round the Clock Monitoring during Cutover.- Chapter 26. Protecting the Organization during Vulnerable Times.- Chapter 27. Transform as You Separate.- Chapter 28. Managing Data Separation and Migration during a Divestiture.- Chapter 29. Real Estate and Site Separation.- Chapter 30. Transition Service Agreements (TSA): Approach to de-risk divestitures.- Chapter 31. Contract Separation - Early Identification and Negotiations.- Chapter 32. Expediting TSA Exits to Enable Strategic Transformation.- Chapter 33. Managing Separation Costs, Stranded Costs & Dis-synergies.- Chapter 34. Cost Reduction through Outsourcing.- Chapter 35. Separation Management Office - Leading Practices.- Chapter 36. Summing it all up.- Appendix A: Divestiture Playbook Overview.- Appendix B: Glossary.