Successful businesses are always looking for ways to expand and increase their power in the marketplace, and one strategy that will help you get there is vertical integration. When a company is ...

Best of breed and vertical integration are two opposing forces that have been part of the datacenter since mainframes first fired up six decades ago in rooms with glass windows in them so companies ...

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 ...

Lincoln Watase, CEO and President of Yum Yum Donut Shops, lists the different ways that vertical integration helps a business maximize their profit opportunities, control the quality of the supplies, ...

Peloton announced blowout earnings last week, and has joined an elite club that includes Apple, Netflix and Tesla. These companies not only delight their customers and create enormous shareholder ...

Energy giants once managed production from oil fields to gas pumps. Coke and Pepsi mixed their drinks and distributed them, and carmakers turned ore into autos. While corporate strategists now urge ...

Firms are taking control of the entire value chain to benefit from scale, reduced costs, agility and greater opportunities for innovation, but robust processes and compliance are crucial to success ...

Vertical integration allows health organizations to coordinate care seamlessly. When hospitals, primary care providers, specialists, and pharmacies operate within a unified network, information flows ...

The Federal Trade Commission is currently completing its review of a proposed merger between defense contractor Lockheed Martin LMT and Aerojet AJRD Rocketdyne. Aerojet is a relatively small company ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brian Delp is NY-based, covering retail, fashion, and home products. When retailers start buying their suppliers, it's usually a ...

Once upon a time, there were three big truck engine makers in the U.S.: Caterpillar, Cummins, and Detroit. A couple of truck makers, like Mack and Volvo, offered their own engines. You ordered a truck ...

Since its modest beginnings in a California garage in 1976, Apple Inc. has aimed to “Think Different” not only about its products but about something equally important: its supply chain. While ...