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Today's Best Companies are Horizontally Integrated

Harvard Business Review

With every degree of verticalization now made possible by information and communications technologies, the right scope of operations for any given firm is an open question. Meanwhile, what they really respond to is a brand experience that is coherent and consistently pleasurable.

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Design as a New Vertical Forcing Function

Harvard Business Review

From Microsoft’s latest radical reorganization and subsequent purchase of Nokia’s devices unit to Google’s acquisition of Motorola , it’s clear that after decades of horizontal integration, high tech is in an age of increased verticalization. What is driving this change?