How Apple Is Organized for Innovation

 By Harvard Business Review - 2020-11-01

Description

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Summary

  • When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, in 1997, it had a conventional structure for a company of its size and scope.
  • To do this at speed with sufficient attention to detail is challenging for even the best of leaders, making it all the more important that the company fill many senior positions from within the ranks of its VPs, who have experience in Apple’s way of operating.
  • Cognizant of this problem, Apple has been quite disciplined about limiting the number of senior positions to minimize how many leaders must be involved in any cross-functional activity.
  • But a full-fledged transformation requires that leaders also transition to a functional organization.

 

Topics

  1. Management (0.4)
  2. UX (0.19)
  3. Machine_Learning (0.18)

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