Company Structure
What a company makes — and how it makes it — in indelibly tied up into how the company is structured.
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Intel is in much more danger than its profits suggest; the problems are a long time in the making, and the solution is to split up the company.
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Disney’s reorganization reinforces their integrated strategy; there is a lot to learn for anyone competing with Aggregators.
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The Windows division no longer exists at Microsoft, marking the end to a four-year process of changing Microsoft’s culture.
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A core part of what makes Apple Apple is its organization structure; Tim Cook has said it will never change. However, if Apple is serious about being a services company, change it must.
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Amazon is building a lot of businesses that look like AWS: taxes on major industries that work to everyone’s benefit. The reason, though, is that AWS is a lot like Amazon itself.
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Steve Ballmer is reorganizing Microsoft into a functional organization: it is a mistake that misunderstands the company he leads.
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Daily Update: App Store Anguish, Old Apple’s Last Stand, Time for a Change?
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Best
The key to avoiding disruption is by providing a superior user experience; that, though, requires focus and execution.
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Daily Update: On the Occasion of Thanksgiving; Lyft Driver Destination; Apple’s Cloud Problem, Revisited
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Daily Update: A Positive Sign for Intel, and a Bad One; Apple WatchKit
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Daily Update: The Uber Problem, Samsung’s Next Act, Nokia is Back!
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Two Microsofts
My well-chronicled frustration with Microsoft’s corporate strategy comes down to one point: I don’t think any company should have both horizontal (i.e. services) and vertical (i.e. devices) businesses. It creates conflicting incentives: a horizontal business should be great on every platform, while a vertical business should be differentiated. Thus, I was quite pleased when Satya Nadella’s…
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Daily Update: Tim Cook’s Announcement; Twitter Changes, Again; Nintendo’s Turnaround
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Daily Update: Why Apple Pay was Blocked, and Why it Will Succeed; Google Reorgs, Kind Of
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PayPal’s Incentive Problem
By winning on the web, PayPal was actually disadvantaged when it came to competing in mobile, because its incentives were already shaped by a different problem.
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Daily Update: HP to Split, A Secure Golden Key, Microsoft’s Android Cash Cow