... differences (Weber and Pliskin 1996) and workforce issues in-volving salary structures, technical skills, work load, morale, problems ofretention and attrition, and changes in IT policies and procedures ... to compatibility and redundancy of hardware and software, connec-tivity, and standards must be resolved. However, the integration of non-compatible systems is time consuming and cannot occur ... of Chase Manhattan, and Sandy Weill’s imaginative and opportunistic construction of Citigroupthough sequential acquisitions, each apparently well targeted and exe-cuted and creating an apparent...