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Today's Best Companies are Horizontally Integrated

Harvard Business Review

Customers assume you can cobble together an offering without defects at low cost. Today, your management team should be giving more thought to horizontal integration. Decades of tweaking levels of vertical versus horizontal integration have left deep impressions on organizations.

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A Board Director's Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

IT has been primarily used to significantly increase productivity and reduce communication and coordination costs as measured in money and time. The biggest opportunities for these companies are simplification and horizontal integration projects.

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Why Companies Are Using M&A to Transform Themselves, Not Just to Grow

Harvard Business Review

The current cohort of acquisitions goes well beyond the typical defensive, synergy-driven, horizontal integration that marked previous M&A spurts. What will it cost to make it all happen? How to make your company more nimble and responsive. But there’s more to it than that.