Nils Andersen, CEO of the Danish shipping and oil conglomerate A.P Moller Maersk, was reconsidering the role of the corporate headquarters and its size which he had reshaped to enhance the efficiency. Nils, in his tenure of seven years, brought massive restructuring and spread the enterprise in multiple business units which he had operated as a single company.
This decentralization made each unit responsible for its outcomes and that it strengthened the communication of each unit with its sister businesses, ultimately reducing the over responsibilities and extended size of corporate headquarter.
However, as this decentralization and division implemented, many of the challenges also encountered by the Nils in response to this change.
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