From my current experience, I closely monitor these things:
- loss of agility in finance, HR, product development as you have to check back with the corresponding divisions of the new parent company to get aligment/green light for any kind of investment.
Worse: not being able to make independent strategic decision in these areas, but only follow orders
- restructuring of upper management that creates disquiet/uncertainty with in teams -> productivity sinks
- Parent company's sales force/marketing does not know how to integrate your product into their current portfolio/process. (Example, when a manufacturing company wants to "go digital", buys other company but their Sales has no idea how to sale digital products)
- focus shifts from "working on your product for your customers" to "integrate with their system/ their other divisions" who have no idea of your customer base.
- corporate politics takes over the decision making process
- general much more "process" creaping in, make you develop much slower. (but that does not have to always be a bad thing)
- loss of agility in finance, HR, product development as you have to check back with the corresponding divisions of the new parent company to get aligment/green light for any kind of investment.
Worse: not being able to make independent strategic decision in these areas, but only follow orders
- restructuring of upper management that creates disquiet/uncertainty with in teams -> productivity sinks
- Parent company's sales force/marketing does not know how to integrate your product into their current portfolio/process. (Example, when a manufacturing company wants to "go digital", buys other company but their Sales has no idea how to sale digital products)
- focus shifts from "working on your product for your customers" to "integrate with their system/ their other divisions" who have no idea of your customer base.
- corporate politics takes over the decision making process
- general much more "process" creaping in, make you develop much slower. (but that does not have to always be a bad thing)