Organizational renewal becomes core challenge for Big Tech's AI transformation
The article uses the recent management turmoil at DingTalk (Alibaba) to illustrate how Internet-era high-pressure management is failing in the AI era, where creativity and openness are critical. Global tech giants including Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Tencent, and ByteDance are all undergoing organizational restructurings but traditional cost-cutting and flattening yield diminishing returns. The core challenge is to connect three key roles—vision setters, strategists, and core contributors—and to foster an organization that respects individual voice, forms cross-functional teams, and eliminates internal politics. Failures in this renewal have led to talent departures and loss of innovation momentum, as seen in Alibaba's recent internal controversies.