School of Fish or Shoaling Strategy - An Introduction
"Shoaling or School of Fish Strategy is a strategic design or configuring of an organization's value chain and assets into smaller, dis-aggregated and dispersed units through modularity, franchising, alliances, teams, and ownership-sharing so as to create and reach markets far and wide, and achieve sustainable growth, learning economies, innovation, agility and speed while reducing cost and investment risk". #kaleidoscopicorganization #smallisbeautiful #TeamBuilding #Transfor
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
