In the past few years, due to the global economic downturn and the slowdown in the development of the Internet, companies around the world have not had a good time, and how to revitalize their enterprises is a problem faced by giants around the world, but some companies seem to have found the answer.
Just now, the CEO of Alibaba issued an internal letter, announcing Alibaba's latest organizational structure changes, establishing six major business groups such as Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, Taobao Tmall Business, Local Life, Cainiao, International Digital Business, and Dawen Entertainment, and forming a 1+6+N organizational formation between a number of business companies and the parent company Alibaba.
This organizational structure change can be described as a spring thunder, which exploded in the Internet technology industry. But in fact, the clues of this change can be seen when the previous Daniel Zhang implementation of the management responsibility system, and it seems that Ali is quite satisfied with the previous results, so it has taken another step forward. Ali's organizational structure adjustment is not a new thing in the past, every once in a while, Ali will make some organizational structure and personnel adjustments according to the market and business conditions, but such a major change, or the first time, this change also released a strong signal and ambition: to delegate power and create more "Alibaba". Unleash greater dynamism through an agile organization.
Once Ali, pursuing the "crawler strategy", was originally a To B e-commerce company, in 2003, incubated To C Taobao; Since then, because of the need to solve the problem of trust and payment, in 2004, Ali created Alipay; Later, Alibaba's e-commerce business ushered in explosive growth, and in order to solve the bearing problem, Alibaba Cloud came into being; After that, because it was necessary to solve the problem of express delivery, Cainiao was established. "Ali wants to create more JD.com" used to be a joke, but throughout Ali's development history, it has indeed incubated and cultivated many new businesses and new companies that stand alone, while solving social problems and creating many conveniences for people.
Now Alibaba, to carry out "plate governance", these subsidiaries have fledged, independent with the parent company Ali to form a new pattern of 1+6+N, can release more value. The six business groups and other business companies, led by the CEOs of each business group and business company, are responsible for how the company should develop and in which direction, each has the final say, and they have more initiative and voice. For the company, the entire organizational structure will become more agile and efficient, and more new growth points can be explored, and for employees, after the independent listing of the business company, it can also reap rich returns, and the enthusiasm of employees is higher.
This organizational change can't help but remind me of Li Yunlong's independent regiment in "Bright Sword", in which the independent regiment was scattered as a battalion and company to develop independently, and finally concentrated to attack Ping'an City, the former independent regiment had grown to the strength of a division. How similar are Alibaba's organizational changes today? In the future, more "Alibaba" may be born to effectively enhance the competitiveness of Chinese enterprises in the world. Chinese enterprises, the future can be expected!