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ALPHABET INC.

(MATRIX
ORGANIZATIONAL
STRUCTURE)

PRESENTED BY
KASHISH BHARDWAJ(004)
DEVANEEK RAJ(005)
PRAKHAR ANAND(012)
SARTHAK AGRAWAL(017)
ANITA KUMARI(018)
Overview of Google (Alphabet)
• Founded: 1998
• CEO: Sundar Pichai
• Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
• Parent Company: Alphabet Inc.
• Focus Areas: Search, Cloud, AI, Consumer Electronics.
Matrix Organizational Structure

Dual Reporting Lines


Employee may have to report to both functional and project managers.
Matrix Organizational Structure

Project based organization: Many


Cross functional Teams: Members initiatives at Google are organized around
from different departments form a specific projects, with team members
team to work on specific projects. pulled from various functions to work
together temporarily.
Google's Matrix Structure
Key Roles and Departments

Leadership & Core


Executive Technology &
Management: Engineering: Business &
Cloud Services
Media & Sales
& Enterprise
Content Operations:
Solutions:
Platforms:
• Jeff Dean –
• Sundar SVP of Google
Research & Health
Pichai –
CEO of Alphabet • Thomas • Phillipp
• Hiroshi • Neal
& Google Kurian – Schindler –
Lockheimer – Mohan –
CEO of SVP & Chief
SVP of Platforms CEO of
• Jeff & Ecosystems Google Business
Markowitz – YouTube Officer
Cloud
VP, Talent • Prabhakar
Advisor to the Raghavan –
CEO SVP of Search Ads
& Assistant
Sustainability & Social
Responsibility:
•Justin Keeble – Managing
Director, Global Sustainability

Legal & Hardware &


Compliance: Devices:
•Kent Walker – •Rick Osterloh –
President of Global SVP of Devices &
Affairs & Chief Services
Legal Officer

Finance & Corporate Human Resources


Strategy: & People
Operations:
•Ruth Porat –
Chief Financial Officer • Fiona Cicconi –
(CFO) Chief People Officer
Factors that have influenced
the design of the
organisational structure.

Leadership
Vast Size and Innovation
Technological and
Global and Product
advancement Management
Presence Diversification
Style
Influence of Innovation

EMPHASIS ON FLEXIBILITY AND INNOVATION STRUCTURE ENCOURAGES RISK-TAKING AND


EXPERIMENTATION, WHICH ARE CRITICAL TO
TECH DEVELOPMENT.
Support for Business Efficiency
Independent Companies: Each part of Alphabet (like Google,
Waymo, Verily) can make decisions quickly without needing
approval from a central team, which speeds up operations.

Shared Resources: Different companies under Alphabet can


use common resources, like tech infrastructure, which helps
save time and money.

Specialized Focus: Google focuses on ads, while other


businesses work on their specific areas, making each part more
efficient in what they do best.
Fostering Innovation

• Room for Big Ideas: Alphabet invests in new, risky projects


(called “Other Bets”) like self-driving cars and health tech,
which can lead to big breakthroughs.
• Research Investment: They spend a lot on research,
encouraging new ideas in fields like artificial intelligence and
robotics.
• Collaboration: Different teams can share knowledge and work
together, leading to creative solutions and faster progress
Decision-Making Processes

Quick Decision-Making Using Data Adaptable


Each company under Alphabet has They use a lot of data to guide The flexible setup allows them
its own leaders, allowing them to their decisions, helping them stay to change strategies quickly if
in tune with market trends and needed, keeping them
make decisions that fit their specific competitive in a fast-moving
market needs faster. customer needs.
market.
Flexibility and
Adaptability

How Alphabet’s
Organizational Structure
Limits and Enhances
Flexibility and Adaptability
Enhancements to Flexibility and
Adaptability

Focused
Innovation

Responsive to
Resource
Market
Flexibility
Change

Decentralizati
on and
Autonomy
Limitations to Flexibility and
Adaptability

Complex
Power Communicati Dependenc
Struggle
Governanc on Overload
e on
Google
e
• Promotes independence
CONCLUSION
Flexibility & across subsidiaries,
Autonomy driving innovation and
adaptability.

• Decentralized decision-
Fostering making and shared
resources encourage
Innovation rapid advancements and
bold projects.

Speed in • Each subsidiary can


Decision- respond quickly to
market needs
Making

Challenges of • Can create silos, limiting


Autonomy collaboration

• Alphabet's heavy
Reliance on dependence on Google’s
Google profitability (needs
revenue from others)
Reference
• https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/0001652044230
00016/goog-20221231.htm#ia96e4fb0476549c99dc3a2b2368f643f
_46
• https://panmore.com/google-organizational-structure-characteristics
-analysis
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