By Brandon Klar, MHSA, Senior Manager, GE Healthcare Camden GroupAn effective integration plan not only aligns operations and maximizes the collective system resources, it also serves as a roadmap and a vehicle to cultural integration. Recognizing the need to balance both quantitative and qualitative inputs in the identification of the ideal strategies for each unique system integration plan, leadership should follow a proven5-step methodology to create a plan that is realistic, achieveable, and sustainable for the system.