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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Apple and the OpenAI Board, Microsoft and the OpenAI Board
Both Apple and Microsoft are leaving their board observer positions with OpenAI; Apple should have never been there in the first place, while Microsoft is probably focused on escaping regulatory scrutiny.
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Why Apple Deserves Special Scrutiny, Paramount Merges with Skydance
Apple deserves special scrutiny from regulators, and Paramount demonstrates Hollywood’s commitment to irrationality.
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An Interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su About Solving Hard Problems
An interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su about her path to AMD, turning around the chip maker, the AI opportunity, and competing with Nvidia.
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Interviews with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and CTO Kevin Scott About the AI Platform Shift
Interviews with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and CTO Kevin Scott about Microsoft’s approach to building AI
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Windows Returns
Microsoft held its most compelling Windows’ event in years, because Windows is no longer the center of the company.
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An Interview with Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi About Building Enterprise AI
An interview with Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi about founding Databricks, managing large data, and creating AI for enterprise.
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Google Earnings, Google’s Re-Org, Google’s True Moonshot
Google’s earnings made a strong case for the positive impact of AI on the company. Meanwhile, it’s recent re-org raises the possibility that Google might actually make devices a real business.
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An Interview with Walmart CEO Doug McMillon About Omnichannel Retail
An interview with Walmart CEO Doug McMillon about his journey at Walmart, and Walmart’s journey in figuring out omnichannel and becoming one of the largest and fastest growing e-commerce businesses in the world.
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An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About Google’s Enterprise AI Strategy
An interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian about Google’s AI strategy, and why this is an opportunity for the company to leap ahead in the cloud.