Discover how horizontal integration can grow your business through mergers, acquisitions, and expansions to increase market share and competitive advantage within the same industry.

Most products travel a long and winding road from raw material to a customer's cart, and those materials pass through a lot of hands along the way. At each stage of this process, there's a company ...

Discover how Apple Inc. and Carnegie Steel Co. leveraged backward integration to control supply chains and enhance efficiency ...

Integrating products after an acquisition is like leading a symphony. You need the right notes, a well-prepared orchestra and a skilled conductor to pull it all together. That’s why a carefully ...

When businesses give autonomy and power to each of their divisions and departments, the result is differentiation, in which each section develops its own cultures and methods. When a company brings ...