Why Microsoft's reorganization is a bad idea (2013)

The article is old, but the comic in the story is fun and worth clicking on the link

It's been three years since the reorg. How did that work out?

Under the new leadership of Satya Nadella, Microsoft was reorganized in 2015 - http://news.microsoft.com/2015/06/17/satya-nadella-email-to-...

Satya shot that reorg in the head. As far as I know it was not really rolled out.

Yes it was. Satya made some additional changes later (mainly downsizing the hardware division and merging it with OSG/Windows) but the basis of the organizational structure still essentially follows the 2013 reorg - in particular, it's still organized functionally.

This:

> And thus, the divisional structure was borne. It [...] remains the model for nearly every corporation of significant size, except, notably, for Apple.

Seems like an overly simplistic statement. I'd be happy to read numbers from current research. Any relevant link?