Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In big companies, management teams focus on achieving the right level of vertical integration. Today, your management team should be giving more thought to horizontal integration. Customers' expectations have been raised by the handful of sellers, such as Amazon, Virgin Atlantic, and Apple, that manage to provide integrated experiences that are so distinctive and pervasive as to be branded—that is, uniquely associated with their names.

Horizontal Integration 8

Horizontal Integration Outsourcing Engineering Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

The current cohort of acquisitions goes well beyond the typical defensive, synergy-driven, horizontal integration that marked previous M&A spurts. However, back-office functions might be integrated. A symbiotic integration starts as a preservation model except that there is a greater interdependence between the strategies of the two companies. No operational integration is necessary. Joe Beck/Unsplash/HBR Staff.

Due Diligence 10

Due Diligence Horizontal Integration Retail Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

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. Design has emerged as a new forcing function in the historical cycle of business integration.

Horizontal Integration 8

Horizontal Integration Retail Review Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

The biggest opportunities for these companies are simplification and horizontal integration projects. A second new component of the IT function should be dedicated to this category of work: the Enterprise Integration Group (EIG). EIG is responsible for enterprise architecture, the center of expertise for simplification and integration methods, process and program management.

CIO 8

CIO Enterprise Architecture Horizontal Integration CTO 8