HULU organizational Structure
HULU organizational Structure: REALITY CHECK: For this part of your project, you need to obtain information about your company’s structure and culture. This information may be hard to obtain unless you can interview managers directly. But you can make many inferences about the company’s structure from the nature of its activities. Search for this kind of information in the company’s annual reports or 10-K reports. You may be forced to make some bold assumptions to complete this part of the project. I appreciate this dilemma with the short amount of time you have to complete the comprehensive case. It is OK to make assumption-just identify them as assumptions and not fact.
Now that you’ve got a direction for your strategy you need to ensure the company creates “linkage” between strategy and the organizational structure.
I am not looking for an organizational chart stating who the VP is and his organization. I want you to attack it from a corporate organizational structure perspective. Does the company have all its resources and capabilities properly aligned to create efficiency and value? Outline how you are going to organize the company to leverage them to create value.
- Does your company have a centralized or decentralized approach to decision making?
- What changes (if any) would you make to the way the company allocates authority and responsibility?
- Draw an organizational chart showing the primary way in which your company groups its activities (not its people!). Based on this chart, decide what kind of structure (functional, product, or divisional) your company is using.
- How does your company’s culture support its business model? Can you determine any ways in which its top management team influences its culture?
- Based on this analysis, would you say your company is coordinating and motivating its people and subunits effectively? Why or why not? What changes (if any) would you make to the way your company’s structure operates? What use could it make of restructuring or reengineering?
Answer previewHulu has a centralized a centralized approach of decision making. The decision made from the top position, that is, Chief Executive officer and passed down to other managers who are responsible for making sure that the decisions are executed. Currently, the CEO position is held by Randy Freer. Under the CEO, there are other positions which include chief financial officer, Chief data officer, Chief technology officer, Chief marketing officer, senior vice president originals, senior vice president sales, senior vice president talent and organization, senior vice president general counsel, and senior vice president head of corporate communications.
In order to enhance effectiveness in the company, the company needs to create more chances for authorities to flow. After the CEO, the company needs to create more platforms which will ensure the authority is decentralized…
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