Paul Budde recently questioned, "Will Microsoft be able to make the jump?"
[04-Apr-2010] For other comments see my pieces "Death by Success" and "Death by Success II".
He quotes the marketing "S-curve" and Summer Players by Carol Velthuis describing company performance and market maturity in seasons of the year.
2010/02/27
ICT Productivity and the Failure of Australian Management
Prior Related Posts:
Quantifying the Business Benefits of I.T. Operations
The Triple Whammy - the true cost of I.T. Waste
Force Multipliers - Tools as Physical and Cognitive Amplifiers
I.T. in context
Alan Kohler and Robert Gottleibsen have been writing in "Business Spectator" about the relationship between jobs and Economic Productivity.
They note that the USA has improved productivity in the last year while in Australia it has declined (+4% and -3% respectively). My take on this is: a gross Failure of Australian Management.
There is solid research/evidence that "ICT" is the single largest contributor to both partial and multi-factor Productivity, and is expected to be so for the next 20 years. This is an big issue.
Quantifying the Business Benefits of I.T. Operations
The Triple Whammy - the true cost of I.T. Waste
Force Multipliers - Tools as Physical and Cognitive Amplifiers
I.T. in context
Alan Kohler and Robert Gottleibsen have been writing in "Business Spectator" about the relationship between jobs and Economic Productivity.
They note that the USA has improved productivity in the last year while in Australia it has declined (+4% and -3% respectively). My take on this is: a gross Failure of Australian Management.
There is solid research/evidence that "ICT" is the single largest contributor to both partial and multi-factor Productivity, and is expected to be so for the next 20 years. This is an big issue.
2010/02/11
Microsoft Troubles - VIII, MS-Office challenged
"Microsoft Office is obsolete, or soon will be" By Joe Wilcox.
I hadn't picked this trend, it's quite important.
It squeezes their 2nd "birthright" (the other is the PC Operating System, I'd focussed on.)
I hadn't picked this trend, it's quite important.
It squeezes their 2nd "birthright" (the other is the PC Operating System, I'd focussed on.)
2010/02/06
Microsoft Troubles - VII, An Insiders View
A friend sent me this link to a New York Times Op-Ed 'contribution'.
Huge news...
This guy was a VP in the glory years - either side of Y2K, and before the 2004/5 Longhorn 'reset'.
The failure to build the successor to XP was a breaking-point: the forced upgrade cycle was gone.
He's likely to have a bunch of stock, or options, and a vested interest in the company's success/survival. His comments are likely to be both informed and as positive as they can be...
Huge news...
February 4, 2010 Op-Ed Contributor Microsoft’s Creative Destruction By DICK BRASS Dick Brass was a vice president at Microsoft from 1997 to 2004.
The failure to build the successor to XP was a breaking-point: the forced upgrade cycle was gone.
He's likely to have a bunch of stock, or options, and a vested interest in the company's success/survival. His comments are likely to be both informed and as positive as they can be...
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