Appropriate for use in business policy and strategy courses. The vice president of integration of Healthways reviews the value-driver-scorecard template to be used in managing the integration efforts of the company's most recent acquisition, Axia Health Management LLC in December 2006. He must ensure a seamless integration of Axia and its five distinct business units spread across the United States. Before his arrival, the decision was made to delay integrating the company until the end of 2007. Midway to that goal, it was clear that some parts of the company should be integrated early. He now has to determine what part of the original plan to accelerate and what can wait.
