Paper Topic:

Global organizations and strategies

Citi , and Institutional Clients Group and Global Wealth Management , Citi 's commercial products . This is considered an international area structure whereby the company does not make a distinction between products offered both domestically and internationally but allows overseas divisions to be managed by one key officer . The geographic regions are divided into Asia Pacific , Western Europe , Middle East , Africa , Central and Eastern Europe , and Mexico /Latin America

It is Citi 's intention to promote local partnership and collaboration efforts while centralizing IT and corporate responsibilities through the implementation of this

restructuring . The measure was also instituted in to cut costs while bringing local latitude to key decision-making areas in each region . According to CEO Vikram Pandit , With this new structure , we reinforce our focus on clients by moving the decision-making process as close to clients as possible and assigning some of our strongest talent to lead the regional areas and global product groups (Business Wire , March , 2008 . This appears to be a savvy strategy for a company with widely distributed and diverse global concerns

Finally , the large global corporation of Johnson Johnson was examined to determine its organizational structure . Johnson Johnson employs a global product structure whereby its divisions are separated by product and based on geographic location of sales for each product . The company also uses autonomous marketing companies for strategic alliances with joint ownership

Johnson Johnson uses this organization structure in to provide targeted customer service and products to each of its locations worldwide . While operating under one large corporate umbrella , regional divisions are responsible for marketing and human resource functions on a local level . In this manner , the company can keep abreast of political and economic changes which affect the various divisions and allow decision-making to occur where it is most relevant while shared service groups can...

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