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How Apple Is Arranged for Innovation: The Functional Organization
How Apple Is Organized for Innovation: The Functional Organization
27 Jan 2021
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When Steve Jobs arrived back at Apple in 1997, he laid off general managers of all business units and combined disparate functional departments into one functional organization. (Part 1 of 3) This is part 1 of 3 Part 2--The Leadership Model: https://youtu.be/d5enAGG51PQ Part 3--Leadership at Scale: https://youtu.be/hczW4Bqf3Qk The adoption of a functional structure may have been unsurprising for a company of Apple’s size at the time. What is surprising—in fact, remarkable—is that Apple retains it today, even…
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