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

The following is a brief article I wrote and is reprinted with permission. It originally appeared in The Neuropsychotherapist, Issue 2, July/Sept 2013, pp. 120-121. An integrative attitude toward ...

Resource decision making is complex and variable when considering the vertical integration problem (VIP) and the horizontal integration problem (HIP) in an enterprise. The VEP involves sharing the ...

When startups launch, growth goals often center on customer acquisition. The logic is that once you’ve made your product or service indispensable to people’s lives, you’ll have breathing room to ...

In recent years direct ownership of physician practices by hospitals and health systems (that is, vertical integration) has become a prominent feature of the US health care system. One unexplored ...

Leaders of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) across administrations have promoted the policy goal of driving all of Medicare and the majority of Medicaid patients into risk-based ...

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 ...

Walmart recently opened its first beef processing plant in Kansas, which will allow the retailer to package its own cuts and distribute them directly to its stores. Walmart doesn’t specifically use ...

Employing versatile strategies is critical for your business to remain profitable and competitive in the poultry industry. The ability to produce and market high volumes of poultry products at lower ...