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Today's Best Companies are Horizontally Integrated

Harvard Business Review

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. people tasked to be integrators, to foster human connections and champion the organization's purpose.

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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. Though recent acquisitions may seem idiosyncratic, they all have in common the need to find new avenues for growth in mature markets or deal with accelerating change. Symbiosis.

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

Harvard Business Review

online idea markets), the center of expertise for innovation support, and analysis across the enterprise. The biggest opportunities for these companies are simplification and horizontal integration projects. DIG is responsible for emerging technology, collaboration methods and technology (e.g., Improving Operational Efficiency.