At Greater Risk for an IT Disaster? According to the Harvard Business Review, 60 percent of all mergers and acquisitions (M&A) end up destroying shareholder value. While much of this failure is caused by a strategic mismatch between the two organizations, smooth integration of the operations of the organizations – especially the IT infrastructure – is also critical to the long-term success of a merger. The airline industry offers a case in point, where customers, regulators, and industry analysts are left wondering if the string of well-publicized IT outages that left thousands of passengers stranded are a side effect of…