Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel (News - Alert)) has recently announced that it has reorganized its management structure in order to grow its three main business offerings. The company used to be organized functionally, with upper management having titles such as Vice President of Engineering & Planning or Vice President of Sales & Marketing.
The new organizational structure rearranges management in such a way that each Vice President has a more specific aspect of the business to focus on. Shentel’s three main lines of business are Wireless, Cable, and Wireline, and there is now a Vice President in charge of each of these areas.
Despite this rearrangement, many other departments will remain organized how they were before. These include areas such as Human Resources, IT, and Accounting and Finance, all of which already have such a specific focus that it would be difficult for them to be structured any differently.
President and CEO Christopher French says that the move was a result of “evaluating all aspects of our business,” and that “In order to continue growing all of our business segments, we have realigned our management structure to provide more focus on each business and to push additional functions and decision-making closer to customers.”
It’s possible that this move will enable Shentel to make even more better, innovative business decisions going ahead in the future since executives will be able to spend more time on their particular part of the company.
Shentel has been in business since 1902, and originally provided its services to rural markets. Today it is popular in the Mid-Atlantic United States and provides services such as digital TV, high-speed Internet, and local and long distance telephone.