We met with two very different global businesses with an interesting similarity. These are Unilever in household products and Sodexo in contract catering and facilities services. Both are moving away from a complex, matrix organizational structure where individual business units report to both country heads and global division heads. Both companies have found this structure is heavy in bureaucracy, lacks accountability and is slow moving. They are hoping that a streamlined structure, global divisions in the case of Unilever ( NASDAQ: UL ) and countries in the case of Sodexo, will lead to improved performance.