{"id":2102,"date":"2015-09-01T19:55:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T19:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aseohosting.com\/blog\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2018-10-26T21:14:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T21:14:15","slug":"the-anatomy-of-a-restructuring-according-to-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aseohosting.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/the-anatomy-of-a-restructuring-according-to-google\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anatomy Of A Restructuring According To Google"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By now, you\u2019ve likely heard the news &#8211; after all, everyone\u2019s been talking about it. Google\u2019s been bitten by the reorganization bug and announced that <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/google-alphabet-parent-company_55c90fc3e4b0f73b20ba5f75\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it will operate under a parent company known as Alphabet<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/originals\/bd\/57\/4d\/bd574decbefd684d1c792bff4e54b0b1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I know, I know<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, reorgs don\u2019t exactly have the best reputation in the business world, and they\u2019re often the result of a business that\u2019s either seeking a way to revitalise or lacks any sort of meaningful direction.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google operates the world&#8217;s largest search engine. It also owns the most successful video sharing site globally. Furthermore, Google developed the most successful mobile OS worldwide. Therefore, at first glance, Google perfectly exemplifies brand superiority.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So&#8230;why reorganize, then? &nbsp;<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first thing to understand about this reorganization is that it\u2019s far from a radical one. Google will still exist as we know it, retaining its Search, Maps, Android, YouTube and advertising businesses. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What <\/span>will <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">change is that Google will become one of several child companies alongside businesses such as Life Sciences and Calico. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The restructuring also meant Google CEO Larry Page became Alphabet&#8217;s CEO. Additionally, Page&#8217;s Co-founder, Sergey Brin, stepped into the president role. Furthermore, Eric Schmidt took on the position of executive chairman.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/bw\/articles\/2014-06-24\/googles-sundar-pichai-king-of-android-master-of-mobile-profile\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sunder Pichai<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will become the new CEO of Google. So\u2026.aside from a few of Google\u2019s former departments branching out as their own companies, how exactly does this change anything?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhat you thought of as Google will just be one division inside of alphabet,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/08\/14\/pros-and-cons-of-alphabet\/#.pieafb:8E9x\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">explains Josh Constine of TechCrunch.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cThe crazy moonshot science experiments within Google will each become their own Alphabet with their own CEOs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Constine, there are three reasons for this:<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><b><b>Larry Page wants to focus more on Google\u2019s ambitions: <\/b><\/b><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><b>It lets Google focus less on maintaining its core business and more on other, more exciting ventures:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The current Google is mostly about its search engine. While profitable, this overshadows its other projects. Remember that orbital elevator? Now, each company division can focus better. They won&#8217;t have search affecting everything.<\/span><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><b>It helps attract and retain talent: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many of Google&#8217;s best people moved from its main businesses. They went to things like Google X or the robotics team. Now, these talented individuals are more likely to stay. This is because they have the chance to become CEOs themselves. They can also gain much more visibility than they would have under the Google brand.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So&#8230;basically this is as much a restructuring as a rebranding. Google hopes that by rearranging its business, it\u2019ll be able to make each of its core departments even better at what they do best. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s tough to say how all this is going to play out in the future, of course&#8230;but for now, it\u2019s time to start calling the largest company in tech by a different name.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, you\u2019ve likely heard the news &#8211; after all, everyone\u2019s been talking about it. Google\u2019s been bitten by the reorganization bug and announced that it will operate under a parent company known as Alphabet. I know, I know, reorgs don\u2019t exactly have the best reputation in the business world, and they\u2019re often the result [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aseohosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aseohosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aseohosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aseohosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aseohosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.aseohosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3129,"href":"https:\/\/www.aseohosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions\/3129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aseohosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aseohosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aseohosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aseohosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}