Shoaling or School of Fish: A Knowledge-Era Smarter Strategy
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/shoaling-school-fish-knowledge-era-corporate-strategy-senthil-kumar?trk=mp-author-card "We are witnessing a new wave of firms restructuring into a Shoaling formation (School of Fish Strategy). Google, Alcoa, and HP are setting a new trend in splitting their structure and corporate governance into a group of small companies. Shoaling design can be practiced at corporate governance, product or business unit level, production organization or allian
Google Restructuring into A Shoaling Formation
Google's recent restructuring of the entire corporation into a collection of companies under the holding company called Alphabet can be considered a Shoaling formation. The URL for the new company Alphabet is abc.xyz. Alphabet includes the following entities: A smaller company called Google, headed by CEO Sundar Pichai, that includes the company's core businesses. Those businesses: "search, ads, maps, apps, YouTube and Android and the related technical infrastructure." Other
