Microsoft
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Enter The Matrix: Microsoft’s Reorg
The new super-matrixed structure doubles down on “integrated innovation”, a model that has historically been tantalizingly just out of grasp from an execution standpoint. The new theory is shorter product cycles will mitigate failures of alignment across teams. The pendulum swings to functional away from divisions that had clear customer focus and segmentation (ironically, Steven…
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Third Time’s a Charm?
So now Microsoft joins the rumored array of aspiring watchmakers. Every story includes an obligatory reference to the Microsoft SPOT watch and its FM sideband broadcast technology: Yet there was an even earlier Microsoft watch. Industry history, it turns out, predates the archives of any tech blog, even those that stretch all the way back…
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A Very Targeted Tax Cut
We are in new territory with PC sales in freefall after a new release of Windows and, as some analysts contend, because of Windows 8. Even the Windows Vista “Vistaster” didn’t see PC sales to implode. Discussions of Microsoft are moving beyond product recriminations to the more fundamental. The time-honored strategy of tying new…