His point was also that technology is about a lot more than an organization's software hardware and networking plumbing. Technology is now such an intricate part of how business runs that someone from that side of the organization needs to be involved in the planning and execution of mergers and acquisitions.

With firms having different applications and often different telephone and email systems, just for starters, is there any other way to sucessfully execute M&A without a clear view of those systems and how they will work together or be integrated?

In a way, technology has become too important to leave simply to the technologists.