Integration of Drax Technology and Drax Services

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Integration of Drax Technology and Drax Services
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Executive Summary
The following report is about the integration of Drax Technology and Drax Services. Drax
Technology is performing well as it adapts innovative ideas and creativity in delivering services.
Whereas Drax Services is not performing well, its survival was very difficult. To solve this issue,
Drax group decided to integrate both the companies and form a new organizational culture,
organizational structure, leadership style and financial statements. The change process is not an
easy task. Therefore, this report highlights change process and effective way of handling change
during integrations and mergers.
The report explains Kotter’s Change Model for managing change and how this model can be
applied. Apart from this the Johnson and Scholes’ Cultural Web Model helps in managing
cultural differences in an organization. Michael Fullan’s Leadership Model is the most suitable
model to build effective leadership for new company formed. This study describes the Change
Kaleidoscope Model and Lewin’s Model to facilitate the organization in planning the change
effectively and efficiently to move t owards the change objective.

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Reason for integration of Drax Technology and Drax Services......................................................5
Ways to integrate Drax Technology and Drax Services..................................................................6
Effective Management of Change Process......................................................................................7
Kotter’s Change Model................................................................................................................7
Factors that influence change..........................................................................................................9
Organizational Culture.................................................................................................................9
Johnson and Scholes’ Cultural Web Model...........................................................................11
Agile ways of working...............................................................................................................13
Michael Fullan’s Leadership Model.......................................................................................14
Power and Politics......................................................................................................................15
Change Management..................................................................................................................16
The Change Kaleidoscope......................................................................................................16
Lewin’s Change Management Model....................................................................................17
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................19
Recommendations..........................................................................................................................20
References......................................................................................................................................21

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Introduction
The report is about the integration of Drax Technology and Drax Services. It will highlight the
ways to develop future plans for the integrated company. The practice of organizational culture
differs from country to country. Since the usage of technology is different in both the companies,
its integration process will face challenges in developing a mutual system. Such integration
refers to the overall integration of all the functions including the financial analysis and
treatments. Leading and managing an integrated organization structure of Drax Technology and
Drax Services is explained in the report.
Drax Technology is an independent, dynamic and innovative giver of integrated alarm
management solutions, protection against fire and other life safety solutions for over 20 years. It
claims to be evolution rather than being a revolution (Draxtechnology, 2019). Its strategy is to
ensure sophistication, reliable and user friendly products to the customers. It designs products to
reduce the workload in a huge legislative environment. It is committed towards ensuring the
maximum level of protection for property and people and also assists the customers to comply
with the necessary requirements.
Drax Services is also an independent provider of all kinds of fire detection and alarm specialists.
It is uniquely positioned to give unbiased security advice and life safety techniques. It is a well
know organization for delivering fire-risk assessment and alarm systems in UK (Draxuk,
2019). Drax services keeps safety as its first priority. It takes pride in taking responsibility to
help their staff, visitors and customers. Its keeps its system approach very professional,
refreshing and knowledgeable. It has a multi-skilled team who applies their knowledge and skills
while working on sites hence, demonstrating money value (Draxservices, 2019).
The report will cover all the critical areas of integration, such as the different cultural web and
models used to combine Drax Technology and Drax Services. It defines how an ineffective
leadership can lead to the poor performance of the company. It specifies the agile manner of
working by improving performance, quality and productivity; and ways to apply form
appropriate leadership system to generate maximum profit. The shareholders interest lies in the
company, so it is important for the leaders to work for their betterment in order to attract more

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investors. Divisional conflicts can cause many harm to the company and disturb the entire
organization. The Lewin’s Model is applied to remove all the complexities that Drax is facing.
Leading and Managing the new organizational structure is a difficult task. Leadership quality
decides the performance and productivity. An effective organizational structure is equally
important as leadership is, as it governs the tasks and activities of employees, and assigns the
roles and responsibilities to carry out essential task. In the process of integration of two different
companies, change management is a must. With the analyzing, the change in the management
will help the organization to access the overall change impact. The implementation of changed
management will align the available resources and reduce the cost of change.
Reason for integration of Drax Technology and Drax Services
Drax Technology has presented very well in the past years, but since it is using the traditional
process in its business conduct; it is losing its place in the market. It has lost certain market share
in the present. Due to this failure the directors of the company refocused on its strategy and
positioning and have come to a decision of introducing Iot (Internet of Things), Artificial
Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML) in its business.
To facilitate new innovation and growth the company selected some staffs from both the
companies, that is, Drax Technology and Drax Services and asked them to participate in a
climate survey. The result of this survey was not that supportive in case of innovation,
productivity, and creativity. To solve this issue the KTP project was undertaken by Drax to gain
competitive advantage in this field, this requests for an integration. Within the relative part of the
context the innovation in the industry where it is required in the manpower to be more creative
where as there are departments which do not want any innovation to work with. In the process
of integration some impact is drawn on the financial statements as well.
Ways to integrate Drax Technology and Drax Services
Integration is a high risk event, it should be managed properly in order to achieve the integration
objective. Investing in leadership is imperative. A good leadership will enhance integration
results by creating a strong and more unified team; and take the new company to new heights.
But on the contradictory will create more burdens in the organisation.

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The following steps should be followed to integrate the two companies:
1. Start the process as soon as the deal of integration is announced
Before commencing any process the complexity and extra inputs in the process and the attitude
of the management will increase the work load shoulders of the promoters and workforce. The
risks and related precautions must be constrained in the joining of the two companies into one.
2. Selection of team members for Integration.
Choose highly skilled and motivated employees from Drax Technology and Drax Services to
form an integrated team. Analyze the work performed by the team members to determine their
strengths and weakness while performing under pressure.
3. Planning an appropriate structure for integration.
It is advisable to plan the activities in advance. Divide the integration activities into categories
like Manufacturing, Service, Human Resource, Legal Finance, Sales and Information
Technology (Azuara , 2016).
4. Creation of internal communication plan.
To build a smooth way for change, the culture and role should be redefined at all the levels
(Azuara , 2016). To avoid misleading assumptions of employees and staffs pre-communication
of integration of two companies must be communicated in a proper manner, explaining the role
that is expected from the employees. Else, it will create a chaos in the organisation.
With the intervene of the two managements in the same organisation will no matter result in the
better production and the collective manner in growth and development but will also make a
presence of the extra resources and will add in the extra cost and extra work burden on the
workforce.