reorg

I'm always wary of analyzing corporate organizations and reporting structures. They change frequently--every year or two, in some companies--so they're always in flux. And the details of who reports to whom, or what they want to call this business unit or that--those things matter, a bit, but not nearly so much as the products and services a company offers, how it goes to market, who its competitors are, and so on. Finally, company structures are very "inside baseball"--the kind of detailed who's-on-first, who's-warming-up-in-the-bullpen information that industry insiders may find interesting, but that isn'… Read more

Intel has reorganized its upper management, and one executive, Pat Gelsinger, is taking a new high-profile role at storage and software company EMC, the companies announced Monday.

Gelsinger, 48, had been a major figure at Intel, where he worked for 30 years. Among his roles: chief architect of a flagship chip from the 1990s, the 486 that followed the 386 and preceded the Pentium; the company's first chief technology officer; and most recently co-general manager of the Digital Enterprise Group, which brought in more than half of the chipmaker's revenue selling chips for servers and business PCs.

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Yahoo has hired Bryan Lamkin to head up the group that manages some of its highest-profile products and is an essential element of the Yahoo Open Strategy.

Lamkin will take on the role of senior vice president of Yahoo's Applications Products division, which encompasses its e-mail and instant messaging services, photo-hosting site Flickr, as well as Yahoo Answers, Groups, and e-mail and calendar service Zimbra. He will report directly to Executive Vice President of Products and Chief Technology Officer Ari Balogh.

As part of its Yahoo Open Strategy, the company is attempting to better integrate social connections with its … Read more

Lenovo announced an internal overhaul Wednesday, reorganizing both its regional and product groups.

Think products, like the iconic ThinkPad and the desktop ThinkStation, will be separated from the Idea group, which makes the IdeaPad and IdeaCentre PCs. The Think group will focus on commercial customers as well as high-end small and medium businesses (SMB). The Idea group will target consumer and SMB transactional customers.

The reorganization also spawned two new business units: one that targets mature markets, and another that targets emerging markets. They will replace the current business units that focus on specific regions. Lenovo considers the U.S., … Read more

In the six weeks since Carol Bartz took over as Yahoo chief executive, she's interviewed employees and executives, learned the company's businesses, assessed what's good, diagnosed what's wrong, and now reorganized Yahoo management to set it on a new course.

Now comes the hard part.

The assertive Bartz expects the new, simpler management structure to produce faster decisions and better accountability among executives. She also ousted Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen, hired Elise Steele to the new chief marketing officer post, and set up a customer advocacy group to make sure Yahoo pays due attention to … Read more

Here's the full text of Chief Executive Carol Bartz's blog post on the latest Yahoo reorganization.

Getting our house in order

Posted February 26th, 2009 at 9:16 am by Carol Bartz, CEO

A month and a half in the saddle and today I have the perfect excuse to get blogging.

I've been on a whirlwind tour for the last six weeks, talking with everybody from executive leaders to the guys who configured my laptop. I've been in student mode, slowly getting smarter about what makes this place tick. And most recently, I've been gathering … Read more

New Chief Executive Carol Bartz has reorganized Yahoo in an attempt to make the Internet pioneer faster, simpler, and more responsive to those who use its services.

"Today I'm rolling out a new management structure that I believe will make Yahoo a lot faster on its feet," Bartz said in a blog post Thursday. Specifically, Yahoo is getting rid of some fiefdoms and setting up a group to pay more attention to customers.

"For us working at Yahoo, it means everything gets simpler. We'll be able to make speedier decisions, the notorious silos are gone, … Read more

Marco Boerries, the chief of Yahoo's Connected Life division, is leaving the company, Yahoo said Wednesday.

Boerries joined Yahoo four years ago and led its effort to bring its services to mobile phones and more recently TVs. News of his departure was first reported by Kara Swisher at All Things D on Wednesday, and Yahoo confirmed the departure.

Swisher quoted Boerries' good-bye memo as saying it's been difficult for him to reconcile his personal and professional lives, given that his family lives in Germany.

However, one source close to the situation said Boerries' departure had more to do … Read more

Neeraj Khemlani, the former vice president and general manager of Yahoo News, has taken a new post at Hearst to speed its newspapers' transition to a digital world.

Hearst announced the move Monday just before an expected reorganization at Yahoo, which is under the leadership of new Chief Executive Carol Bartz.

"Hearst's major operating groups have all made substantial progress towards our corporate objective of fully participating in the digital transformation The creation of this new position is designed to accelerate the progress through greater cooperation and synergy across divisional lines. Neeraj is uniquely equipped to help me … Read more