Apple's Structure

When taking a look at Apple's organizational chart one will see Steve Jobs at the top. Branching off would be Senior Vice Presidents in different areas such as Marketing, Sales, Applications, Software Engineer and so forth. From there the chart branches further into lower positions but still specialized and each divided into different areas. This chart represents a functional structure whereas a CEO is at the top followed by executive officers followed by functional line managers. Jobs was a co-founder back in the late 70s and still serves as CEO. It seems to me that there is constant flow of information back and forth between the different levels. This communication helps lead to the success and innovation of Apple.

In other news, Apple just posted their 2nd quarter earnings and had revenue of $13.5 billion and ned quarterly profit of $3.07 billion compared to revenue of $9.08 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.62 billion a year ago. They also listed that international sales accounted for 58 percent of the this quarters revenue.