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 ...

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

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, ...

What is a “master systems integrator”? Put simply, it’s what NSCA believes integrators must evolve into in order to remain relevant and vital as customers’ needs evolve. Put another way, it’s an ...

Right then, let’s talk about how businesses are actually getting their different software tools to play nicely ...

During the 1990s, companies bought packaged software solutions such as SAP, Oracle ERP, PeopleSoft, JDEdwards, Siebel, Clarify, and so on. Although such packaged software solutions worked well ...