<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, stone yamashita]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, stone yamashita]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/stoneyamashita http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/stoneyamashita <![CDATA[Read all about it — Yahoo's doing ... nothing!]]> Remember Jerry Yang's 100 Day Plan? The one that promised a new game plan with "no sacred cows?" We're almost to the halfway mark (Day 56, counting weekends, but isn't that what fast-track executives do?) and so far, there's precious little going on. Check out Kevin Delaney's WSJ piece today, which points to barn-burners like adding social networking features to its email and hiring Stone Yamashita partners to help them refocus (disclosure: I have a brilliant relative who works there). Delaney quotes Glen Kacher of Integral Capital partners, who dumped his Yahoo! holdings after meeting with top executives there in August, saying we "decided that the management isn't considering the kind of transformational changes that would be required to improve their position in the market." Ouch.]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=298152&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Watch out Yahoos, here come the consultants]]> Get your resumes ready, Yahoos, if you haven't already. That rumored Yahoo reorg? Oh, it's on. We've heard that Yahoo has hired consultants Stone Yamashita Partners to help streamline the organization. And you know what consultants mean, right? As Mike Judge's cult classic Office Space reminds us:

TOM: We're all screwed, that's what. They're gonna downsize Initech. SAMIR: Oh, what are you talking about Tom? How do you know that? TOM: They're bringing in a consultant - that's how I know.
Stone Yamashita, of course, isn't the big-bad downsizing kind of consultancy Tom and Samir are talking about — that's more the McKinsey type. But Valleywag has heard Stone Yamashita has been working with Yahoo since the ouster of former CEO Terry Semel. The firm's known for assisting companies in defining what they do — exactly the kind of help Yahoo really needs. If Stone Yamashita also helps Yang figure out that the newly redefined Yahoo doesn't need so many layers of executives, all the better.]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=294808&view=rss&microfeed=true