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Microsoft’s 4 Real Problems that Gates, Nadella, and Ballmer Can’t Fix

Microsoft’s 4 Real Problems that Gates, Nadella, and Ballmer Can’t Fix

By Bob Warfield on October 9, 2014

I just finished the Vanity Fair piece on Gates, Ballmer, Nadella, and whether Microsoft can be rebooted to its former glory.  It’s a good article, but it’s all about the past mistakes and there’s little about the future there.  Mostly, it is the account of how two best friends (Gates and Ballmer) broke up over […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Bill Gates, microsoft, MSFT, Nadella, SaaS

Larry Ellison

Larry Ellison

By Denis Pombriant on September 19, 2014

I was going to write a post about Larry Ellison leaving Oracle after he announced his retirement on Thursday but it is probably pre-mature. Ellison will become the executive chairman while Safra Katz and Mark Hurd run the shop as co-CEO’s and I have a lot of doubts. It’s not that Safra and Mark are […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Mark Hurd, microsoft, oracle, Safra Catz, Steve Ballmer

Satya Nadella: Microsoft, Coffee and the Relevance Question

Satya Nadella: Microsoft, Coffee and the Relevance Question

By Anshu Sharma on February 4, 2014

Satya Nadella is a highly accomplished, extremely smart Microsoft executive who is correctly receiving a warm reception from media and pundits. The question that remains open however is – is he the change agent that can help Microsoft avoid the fate that other Wintel players are facing? He clearly seems to have taken to Marc […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Bill Gates, Marc Andreessen, microsoft, MSCEO, Satya Nadella, Steve Ballmer

Satya Nadella, CEO Microsoft

Satya Nadella, CEO Microsoft

By Denis Pombriant on February 4, 2014

Satya Nadella, CEO Microsoft Note: In a bit of operator error an earlier version of this post clipped off the first para.  Here it is restored. Microsoft announced its selection of Satya Nadella to be the third Microsoft CEO today and I wish him well.  In a flurry of announcements, Bill Gates also stepped down […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Bill Gates, microsoft, MSCEO, Nadella, Satya Nadella, Steve Ballmer | 2 Responses

The Problem With Replacing CEO’s, Boards, and Governance at Big Co’s

The Problem With Replacing CEO’s, Boards, and Governance at Big Co’s

By Bob Warfield on February 3, 2014

At some point, Silicon Valley VC’s, whom I am not always entirely complimentary of, decided it was easier to teach a Founder to be a decent CEO than it was to teach a Big Co Exec to fill in what they’d lose if a Founder left.  That doesn’t mean they don’t replace CEO/Founders, but it […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Bill Gates, microsoft, MSCEO, Satya Nadella, strategy

Ballmer Will Retire in the Next 12 Months

Ballmer Will Retire in the Next 12 Months

By Denis Pombriant on August 23, 2013

From the get-go Steve Ballmer had an impossible job to do.  Long the number two man at Microsoft behind iconic founder and chief geek, Bill Gates, Ballmer got to take over when the Gates bubble was beginning to wear out.  Gates built the company he founded with Paul Allen from zero into the powerhouse of […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Bill Gates, Blue Ocean Strategy, microsoft, Steve Ballmer

Microsoft’s New Coke Moment

Microsoft’s New Coke Moment

By Denis Pombriant on May 31, 2013

Windows 8.1 is beginning to make the pre-release rounds with the influencers as this post by Ed Bott in ZDNet documents.  Version 8.1 brings me back to the 1990s and 1980s for various related reasons because it is not unlike what happened with Windows 3.0 when it was followed by version 3.1. In the Windows […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Bill Gates, Coca-Cola, microsoft, Microsoft Windows, New Coke, Operating system, Start menu, Win8, Windows 3.0, Windows 8, windows 8.1 | 3 Responses

Event Report: Washington Ideas Forum (#IdeasForum) Highlights America’s Current Challenges

Event Report: Washington Ideas Forum (#IdeasForum) Highlights America’s Current Challenges

By R "Ray" Wang on November 15, 2012

The Disruptive Technology Perspective At The Washington Ideas Forum Influencers in politics, academia, and business converge once a year at the Washington Ideas Forum to discuss the challenges and potential solutions America faces.  This event held November 14th to November 15th pulled together over 1200 attendees and was sponsored by The Atlantic in partnership with […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged @AspenInstitute, @Atlantic_LIVE, Amy Klobuchar, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Aspen Institute, Barney Frank, Bill Burton, Bill Gates, David Drummond, David Leonhardt, David Maraniss, disruptive, Disruptive Tech Life Cycle, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Emerging Technologies, enterprise strategy, event report, Henry Crumpton, Ideas Forum, James Bennet, Jennifer Psaki, John Dickerson, Jonathan Alter, Julius Genachowski, Katty Kay, Kevin Madden, Michael Porter, Newseum, R "Ray" Wang;, Robert Kimmitt, Ron Suskind, rwang0, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, Steve Case, Steve Clemmons, The Atlantic, Trevor Potter, Walt Mossberg, Walter Isaacson, Washington Ideas Forum

Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 15-31 March 2011

Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 15-31 March 2011

By Dennis Moore on April 1, 2011

Oracle has a phenomenal quarter. Paul Allen disses Bill Gates. Patent, trademark, and IP issues galore. Salesforce.com continues cash-based acquisition spree. HP continues rolling out its new strategy. HP and Oracle continue their war. Gosling joins Google. CIOs want to reduce the number of applications they maintain. IBM turns 100. World political turmoil and aftermath […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Bill Gates, google, hp, ibm, Java, Larry Ellison, Léo Apotheker, microsoft, news, oracle, Patents, Paul Allen, salesforce.com

3 Challenges Larry Page Faces for Google

3 Challenges Larry Page Faces for Google

By Bob Warfield on January 24, 2011

There are 3 challenges Larry Page must overcome to fundamentally make Google a bigger, better, and more successful company that customers love and that does no evil: Lack of Customer Focus Google is all about the algorithms, but algorithms are not customer-focused.  They’re off doing whatever they were made to do, and if that’s not the right […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Bill Gates, customer focus, customer service, Eric E. Schmidt, google, Larry Page, microsoft, strategy

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