Horizontal companies need system thinkers.

· Bits and Bobs 7/27/26
  • Horizontal companies need system thinkers.
    • Vertical companies can get away without them.
    • You can do vertical based business with one ply thinking.
      • Just very high quality / fast one ply.
    • You can only do horizontal businesses with multi-ply thinking.
    • Whether you have a horizontal business or a vertical business partially comes down to culture, but also fundamentally to the intrinsics of the business.
    • If you try to run a fundamentally-horizontal business in a vertical way, you will create significantly less value.