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Strategy Implementation-Hair Care and Tequila In Strategy Implementation, there are many ways that company's can pursue strategies to effectively exploit their competitive advantage and achieve profitability in the global marketplace. Following internal and external analysis, functional and business strategies that facilitate efficiencies, differentiation, horizontal and vertical integration and, related and unrelated diversification all provide strategic options for corporate strategists. John Paul Mitchell Systems is a hair care company that realizes over $1 billion in sales annually. Founded by the late hair stylist Paul Mitchell and salesman John Paul Dejoria in the early 1980s, John Paul Mitchell Systems, still run by John Paul Dejoria, has followed an interesting path to success. John Paul Dejoria also founded the Patron Spirits Company, that sells over 2 million cases of Patron Tequila a year. Please, review the links below with a critical view on differentiation, horizontal and vertical integration, corporate social responsibility and related and unrelated diversification. Offer your thoughts on examples of these corporate strategic approaches as demonstrated in the articles and web pages. From a management perspective, is there anything common to all of the businesses discussed? Make sure you provide comments to at least two classmates as part of this assignment.