Intel restructures and creates new business units and leadership roles

Re:Intel restructures and creates new business units and lea... by Galxeagle on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @05:53PM (#27597700)

And just to defend top-down orgs a bit, the corollary is that because different teams might make different decisions, flat/bottom-up organizations tend to be less standardized - more flexible at the cost of some chaos. A tendency for launching and killing products in quick succession is one possible implication. For Valve launching different games that works, at Google launching/killing chat apps is starting to hurt their reputation.

An ideal company is a mix of both, but which policies are ‘imposed from above’ and which are allowed to ‘boil up from the bottom’ is usually an endless source of discussion - I wonder which way Intel is going

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Re:Intel restructures and creates new business units and lea... by ethbr0 on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @06:38PM (#27598179)

> An ideal company is a mix of both

The best company I've ever worked at (retail, surprisingly) squared the circle thusly:

Strategy (i.e. goals, culture, priorities) flowed top-down. And the company spent serious time doing it pervasively and well.

Solutions (i.e. implementations, features, products) flowed bottom-up.

Part of their corporate culture was that a manager above team level should never suggest how to do something. You could bounce ideas off them, but they were pretty serious about it being the person doing the implementation work's decision.

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Re:Intel restructures and creates new business units and lea... by ketzo on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @06:59PM (#27598408)

Wow, that seems like a really strong set of guiding principles. I like that a lot.

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