Most products travel a long and winding road from raw material to a customer's cart, and those materials pass through a lot of hands along the way. At each stage of this process, there's a company ...

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 ...

Today’s businesses rely on technology as a foundation, however, forward-thinking businesses view technology as a competitive differentiator. In fact, most businesses rely on many different systems to ...

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, ...

Here is one way to look at distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and blockchain in the context of integration evolution. Over the years, businesses and their systems are getting more integrated, ...

At the Becker’s Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 17, Peggy Naas, MD, MBA, vice president of physician strategies at VHA, and Lani Berman, MBA, vice president of performance services at ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Chip Stapleton is a Series 7 and Series 66 ...