Insights on employee engagement, people analytics, and organizational transformation
As global M&A activity continued to rebound through 2025, the cumulative impact of deal execution risk has grown as well. Most M&A leaders would agree that people and culture are critical to value creation—yet these risks are often assessed inconsistently, and mitigation plans are not specific enough to protect deal value. In our upcoming webinar on February 18, we’ll explore how to quantify people risk and build a clear business case for targeted mitigation.
Astu Labs, an accelerator of organizational AI capability, and NayaDaya Analytics, a pioneer in human-centered analytics, have entered into a strategic partnership. The collaboration ensures that AI transformations succeed not only as tool adoptions but by unlocking the full, shared potential of people and AI.
Conducting People Due Diligence is hard for both the buyer and the seller: the data you need is often subjective or simply unavailable, especially without access to employees. With our AI- and science-based People Impact Analytics®, we have diagnosed employee experience in M&A integrations for years. Building on recent innovations, our analytics now enables Due Diligence as well. On our webinar on November 25 to heard how to accurately measure, analyze and flag people- and culture-related risks and protect deal value before Day 1.
With our AI- and science-based People Impact Analytics®, we have been measuring employee experience in M&A integrations for years. Many of our findings challenge conventional wisdom. In our webinar on October 28, we opened up our wealth of insights and explored what people truly do — and do not — go through during an integration — and how you can respond effectively.
"AI is no longer the future – it’s here, rewriting how companies and organizations create value. But there’s a harsh truth: those who fail to unite people and AI will fall behind," writes Timo Järvinen, Co-Founder of NayaDaya Analytics Inc., the Finnish creator of People Impact Analytics®.
“In growth driven by acquisitions and integrations, a single-minded focus on unification and the big picture can destroy the very value of what is being purchased,” writes Timo Järvinen, Co-Founder of NayaDaya Analytics Inc., the Finnish creator of the game-changing People Impact Analytics®.
It’s widely recognized that great Employee Experience (EX) enhances Customer Experience (CX), driving both growth and profitability. In our webinar on June 10th, we shared how you can harness emotion-behavior science and artificial intelligence to manage people and culture impact during business transformations — ultimately boosting both your top and bottom lines.
As Mews, the fast-growing disruptor transforming hospitality platforms, accelerates its inorganic growth, the company needed to find effective ways to engage people and manage culture across global integrations. The chosen solution – People Impact Analytics®, powered by artificial intelligence and emotion-behavioral science – is already fostering an inclusive, empathy-driven integration process.
Our recent webinars on AI in M&A were a great success – we managed to engage hundreds of professionals in 28 countries. Given the strong interest, I wanted to share some key insights here: How can we leverage AI in the context of mergers and acquisitions, especially during the integration stage?
In our May 7, 2025, webinar we discovered on how Caverion Finland Division at Assemblin Caverion Group, a growing expert for smart and sustainable built environments, mitigates people risks and drives human-centered M&A integrations with People Impact Analytics®.
In our webinars on March 6th, 2025, we shared our insights and experiences in leveraging AI for M&A integrations and other business transformations. Our primary use case People Impact Analytics™ was briefly presented, our science- and AI-powered solution that helps companies identify and mitigate people risks. Beyond that, we explored what works – and what doesn’t – when applying AI in the context of M&A.
Our groundbreaking analytics for M&A integrations and transformations, powered by cutting-edge science- and AI-driven emotion and behavior intelligence, now has a new name: People Impact Analytics™.
“M&A integration is like a relationship, where success cannot be defined solely by whether one party stays or leaves. Achieving goals becomes even more difficult if common integration failures are simply blamed on cultural conflicts,” writes Timo Järvinen, Co-Founder of NayaDaya Analytics Inc., the Finnish creator of the game-changing People Risk Analytics™.
Watch our webinar on Oct 30, 2024, hosted by Midagon and NayaDaya Analytics, to learn how to build inclusive, productive, and rewarding relationships with acquisition targets during M&A integrations. Discover how game-changing People Risk Analytics™ delivers the actionable insights you need for success.
The Nordic financial service provider Rantalainen Group is using People Impact Analytics™ to enhance its M&A integrations at both operational and strategic levels. A seamless flow of actionable insights starts from each employee’s emotions and perspectives during integrations. This approach extends to the strategic landscape of the entire post-merger integration process, fostering fast, inclusive, and sustainable growth.
Watch our webinar on Sep 17, 2024, hosted by Deloitte and NayaDaya Analytics, to learn how to identify and mitigate people-related risks in M&A integrations. Discover how to leverage data-driven insights across all your integrations to continuously improve your PMI process.
"Data-driven empathy is the missing piece of M&A integrations," writes Timo Järvinen, Co-Founder of Finnish NayaDaya Analytics Inc.
While many mergers and acquisitions fail, especially due to people- and culture-related problems, solving this common and extremely costly issue should be the top priority for companies pursuing inorganic growth.
Since Caverion and Assemblin merged, the success of post-merger integrations in Finland has been supported by the solution from NayaDaya Analytics Inc. This science- and AI-based Finnish-Swiss innovation helps mitigate people-related risks and focus on the right issues.
Our webinar on June 27, 2024, we focused on inclusive and socially sustainable M&A integrations. To discover how to combine pragmatic people risk management with empathy, AI, and science-driven innovation, watch the free webinar recording.
"If you want to build socially sustainable integrations and transformations while tackling the people-related risks of employee turnover and productivity collapse, all you need is the willingness to focus on people. The right tools are already in place," writes Timo Järvinen, Co-Founder of Finnish NayaDaya Analytics Inc. Watch the webinar recording
"If you want to build socially sustainable integrations and transformations while tackling the people-related risks of employee turnover and productivity collapse, all you need is the willingness to focus on people. The right tools are already in place," writes Timo Järvinen, Co-Founder of Finnish NayaDaya Analytics Inc.
"Through our People Risk Analytics™, we've achieved something remarkable. By harnessing emotion and behavior intelligence alongside AI and science-driven algorithms, we have engineered a dynamic, responsive, and socially sustainable M&A integration playbook extension for people and culture," writes Timo Järvinen, Co-Founder at Finnish NayaDaya Analytics Inc.
Explore our cutting-edge, patent-pending solution that harnesses the power of AI, science, and M&A intelligence to prevent common failures and unlock excellence in post-merger integrations. The webinar was held on April 17, 2024.
Globally experienced M&A integration professional Thomas H Kessler interviewed Co-founder Timo Järvinen of NayaDaya Analytics on his podcast to explore the groundbreaking possibilities of science- and AI-driven People Risk Analytics™ in post-merger integrations.
According to Deloitte, "people and culture issues are the most common reasons for failing integrations". Unfortunately, these failures occur all too often. Huge investments and high goals are threatened and often damaged by employee turnover and productivity collapse. Through our game-changing NayaDaya® People Risk Analytics™, developed in collaboration with Deloitte, it is now possible to 1) identify people risk levels, 2) uncover their root causes, and 3) recommend actions to mitigate these risks and prevent people-related breakdowns in M&A integrations.
Transforming post-merger integrations, NayaDaya Analytics unveils its new People Risk Analytics™ for M&A. Leveraging science and AI, this method and technology revolutionizes post-merger integrations by addressing people-related risks and providing action recommendations with unprecedented precision.
Aiming for global growth, NayaDaya Analytics Inc. welcomes Petri Järvinen, returning from Singapore to Finland, as its new CEO and Partner. Co-founder Timo Järvinen will now focus on enhancing customer value through the science-based and AI-powered People Risk Analytics™. Alongside their innovative team and investors, the brothers have high expectations for their disruptive solution, built to prevent people-related M&A integration failures.
In the webinar recording on Feb 28, 2024, by Deloitte and NayaDaya Analytics, unlock the future of your post-merger success with a breakthrough in science, technology, empathy, and AI. Discover how a pioneering analytics tool delivers concrete action recommendations to minimize people-related risks and prevent M&A failures.
If you are executing integrations, leading transformations, or starting business critical projects in 2024, now it is the time to identify the people risks: employee turnover, productivity loss, and quiet quitting.
"If you want to avoid people-related failures in your transformation, M&A, or project, I encourage you to analyze those risks and correct any false beliefs about the existing surveys," writes Timo Järvinen, the founder of NayaDaya Analytics Inc.
The Finnish developer of the emotional and behavioral intelligence, NayaDaya Inc. has changed its name to NayaDaya Analytics Inc. The new name portrays the company's evolution, through science-based innovations, towards the unique people risk analytics and scalable robotics.
Many studies show that mergers and acquisitions often fail due to people and cultural reasons. Under the surface, there may be pain points that cause employee turnover and productivity loss. Through the 30-minute webinar you can find out how to reveal the employee turnover risk in mergers and acquisitions.
"Do we trust a process that has proven its superiority over millions of years or an obscure NPS metric that was invented 20 years ago?" asks Timo Järvinen, CEO of the empathy analytics company NayaDaya Inc.
Recommendation has become a common metric that is applied everywhere. It's not hard to see why. The implementation of NPS surveys is easy. It would certainly be great if people's understanding could be handled with a single number and its justification.
Deloitte, the world's leading M&A expert organization, and NayaDaya Inc., a people risk analytics company, tackle the central challenge of business acquisitions and integrations: employee turnover and falling productivity.
It is now possible to identify the root causes for the common pain points in mergers and acquisitions – employee turnover and falling productivity – in time.
According to the Harvard Business Review, as many as 70-90 percent of mergers and acquisitions fail. Deloitte, on the other hand, says that "most of the barriers to a successful integration are related to people and company culture".
Financial management service company Rantalainen Group, which is renewing its ownership base, is looking for rapid growth in the Nordic markets through acquisitions and integrations. Their success is supported by NayaDaya Inc.'s Empathy Analytics that identifies the root causes of employee retention. With the arrangement published in January, Rantalainen's new majority shareholder will be the Nordic private equity firm Norvestor. The growth targets are high.