The manager, who has not lost in any of his 14 competitive games in charge, has worked wonders integrating players from last summer's impressive under‑21s into his senior squad.
How can a dominant, integrated player determine what to out-source and what to hold on to as its industry begins to break into pieces?
But his wife and the Jacobs family's holding company still own almost 60% of the firm that is the only vertically integrated player in the $58 billion chocolate industry: Barry Callebaut competes with Cargill and ADM in Africa and Asia for the two annual harvests of the cocoa bean, processing 15% of the globe's entire cocoa production.
Although comparisons are always difficult, "Looking at the historical performance of the vertically integrated players, there is no obvious benefit to integration," said Mr. Moffett, who thinks Comcast would fare better as a pure cable operator.
"We are having to integrate players and help them get fitness at the same time," he said.
Gone has been the expedient of quotas, which sought as a direct policy to integrate players of colour into the side, occasionally at the expense of white cricketers of superior ability.
Then again, the shrewdness with which they have spotted and integrated players suggests that even if they lose their powerful midfielder, they will continue to earn the respect of their supposed superiors.
His own mistakes – the failed attempts to integrate players such as the 21-year-old forward Carlo Sartori and the defenders Steve James and Paul Edwards, 19 and 21 respectively, with whom he had worked in the youth teams – were not forgotten.
To integrate players into the small Swedish community, Potter and his squad take part in annual events that you wouldn't normally associate with professional footballers.There was the Östersunds' play that saw players dress up in everything from kilts to cow costumes, an art exhibition made up of players' masterpieces and a dance show for fans.
The data networking industry, for example, was dominated by vertically integrated players like Cisco.
Those cameras integrate players' movements, allowing an onscreen avatar to mimic arm gestures or walking motions.
