Managing a corporate spinout is a challenge at the best of times. When it involves dozens of sites all over the world and over 40 legal entities as well as a tight timescale, that's probably enough to give any executive a severe headache. In this brief, we examine how the CIO of Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise managed the transition of parent company Alcatel-Lucent to new owner China Huaxin without losing a single business day.