Merger offers IS managers flexibility & less stressful integrating, downsizing, & outsourcing. Interview by Bill Childs.
A merger between two multi-million dollar IS firms in July 1993 created a company with $315 million in sales and a sharp focus on healthcare. National Healthtech Corp., parent firm of MRI, brought the focus to the deal. And Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services, a data services provider to financial, commercial and healthcare organizations, brought telecommunications and outsourcing expertise. Bill Childs, editor-in-chief, recently spoke with the two firms' principals--Richard A. Montgomery, CEO of National Healthtech Corp., and Steve Carpenter, senior VP of ACS and COO of NHC. Excerpts from their conversation follow.
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