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Today's Best Companies are Horizontally Integrated

Harvard Business Review

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. Decades of tweaking levels of vertical versus horizontal integration have left deep impressions on organizations.

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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.

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

Harvard Business Review

The biggest opportunities for these companies are simplification and horizontal integration projects. EIG is responsible for enterprise architecture, the center of expertise for simplification and integration methods, process and program management. IT management Information & technology'