“How Apple is managed is one of its enduring mysteries,” Horace Dediu writes for Asymco.
“The idea that a company with $235 billion in sales is managed with a single P/L is fascinating in many ways,” Dediu writes. “Not least of which is how it allocates resources.”
“The fundamental question of which great idea gets to be funded and which great idea gets to be ignored is the core of every manager’s dilemma,” Dediu writes. “The Apple problem is at scale when each decision’s consequences are so momentous. In the case of Apple there are so few projects that reach the market and their impact is so great that one wonders how they can be sure they are doing the right thing.”
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