Sonic Labs wants to build and own core DeFi apps to increase the S token's real utility and demand.

A vertically integrated business refers to a business that has expanded into different steps along production, manufacturing, and supply. In other words, a vertically integrated business controls some ...

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, ...

Forward integration empowers businesses to control distribution, streamline operations, and eliminate intermediaries. Learn strategies for market control and profitability.

Cloud-native integration platform examples are built for modern cloud setups. They use things like microservices and APIs to ...

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 ...

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 ...

A version of this article appeared in the Autumn 2015 issue of strategy+business. “Owning the value chain” was a favorite strategy in the early part of last century. Companies sought advantage by ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: In addition to Shubham Singhal (linked bio above) this post is authored by Rohit Kumar and Jeris Stueland. Rohit Kumar is a consultant in McKinsey’s Chicago office. Jeris Stueland, an ...

This writing is in response to the article recently written by SA contributor Ashraf Eassa titled Samsung is Apple's Worst Nightmare. In the article Ashraf argues that Apple (AAPL) should suspend ...