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Organizational Structure and Designs with Case Study: QUALCOMM
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Table of Contents
Section 1: Introduction
Section 2: Six Key Elements in Organizational Design
Section 3: Types of Organizational Designs
Section 4: QUALCOMM: Brief History and Achievements
Section 5: QUALCOMM's Organizational Structure
Section 6: Evaluate and Analyze QUALCOMM's Organizational Structure and Design
Section 7: Conclusion -- Is QUALCOMM traditional or contemporary?
Section 8: Works Cited
QUALCOMM's Organizational Structure

A Special Note From the Presenters:
It may be unbelievable, but there was not any form of organizational structure charts to be found after we researched QUALCOMM's company information, archives from their Press Release, Annual Report (an incredibly lengthy report...), and other internet resources. Therefore, we decided to draw our own chart based on our findings from the research and the knowledge we learned from this class.
This section was so challenging that it had to be prepared by 3 people:
Camha Nguyen, Jack Chi-Chun Ng, Yi-Chin Lilly


As shown in Figure 5-1, QUALCOMM's organizational structure can be divided into 2 parts: one is Business Units where the sub-units are separated based on Product Departmentalization, and the Administrative Units are categorized based on Functional Departmentalization.

Business Units are the "money-making" departments or divisions that are directly involved with the products of the company; and the Administrative Units are the departments that coordinate QUALCOMM's daily business operation activities.

Figure 5-1: QUALCOMM's Organizational Structure Chart
QUALCOMM's Organizational Structure Chart
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Within the Business Units, there are 8 sub-units:
  • QCT (QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies) develops and suppliers CDMA-based integrated circuits and system software for wireless voice and data communications, multimedia functions and global positioning system product.

  • QTL (QUALCOMM Technology Licensing) grants licenses to use QUALCOMM's intellectual property, including certain patent rights essential to or useful in the manufacturing, sale and use of CDMA-based products.

  • QSI (QUALCOMM Strategic Initiatives) makes strategic investments in ventures that focus on worldwide adoption of 3G wireless communications technologies (voice and data) and products serving consumers, the enterprise and all members of the wireless value chain such as wireless network operators, device and equipment manufacturers, and application and content providers.

  • QIS (QUALCOMM Internet Services) provides technology to support and accelerate the convergence of wireless data, Internet and voice services. Offerings include the BREW® and BREWChat® VoIP solutions, the QPoint ™ position location solution and Eudora® email software for PC and Mac.

  • QWBS (QUALCOMM Wireless Business Solutions) provides companies around the globe with industry-leading mobility platforms, applications and services that accelerate business. Products include the OmniTRACS®, OmniOne™ and GlobalTRACS® two-way data communication systems, productivity-enhancing applications, and wireless advisory and managed network services. These products serve a variety of industries, including transportation and logistics, third-party logistics, construction, petroleum, retail, food and beverage, and healthcare.

  • QTV (QUALCOMM Technology and Ventures) offers the MediaFLO™ system enabling wireless multimedia services and supports QUALCOMM's mission of enabling and fostering CDMA and wireless Internet markets through strategic investments in privately-owned startup ventures.

  • QGOV (QUALCOMM Government Technologies) provides the Unites States government with secure wireless communications solutions using CDMA, OmniTRACS® and other QUALCOMM technologies. Through government funded R&D, QGOV is creating leading-edge security technology with the development of the QSec®-2700, a 3G secure phone.

  • QCTest™ and Deployment Products. QUALCOMM's focus is the creation of products that ultimately lower licensee and carrier operator costs while enabling the quickest deployment of the latest technology. QCTest solutions are complementary with QUALCOMM's CDMA and WCDMA chipsets and QUALCOMM's Internet Services, BREW applications. It is QUALCOMM's mission to ensure successful CDMA and WCDMA rollouts by eliminating delays due to a lack of available software tools, hardware tools, and other necessary products.

The Administrative Units consist of the following departments:
  • Human Resource Department

  • Marketing Department

  • Financial Department

  • Global Development Department

    Those departments coordinate the company's business operations world wide and provide necessary resources to the production operations.

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