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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

Salesforce Kickoff

Salesforce Kickoff

By Denis Pombriant on February 24, 2013

Salesforce is kicking off its new year with an event on Tuesday at New York’s fabled Waldorf Astoria in which CEO Marc Benioff will introduce a refinement of an idea he’s been talking about for many months. For a long time the company has been using messaging about the idea of transforming the enterprise from […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Blue Ocean Strategy, salesforce, salesforce.com | 1 Response

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Oracle Fusion and More Blue Ocean Strategy

By Denis Pombriant on February 15, 2013

Old pal, Chris Kanaracus (who covers enterprise software and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service) has a story in InfoWorld yesterday which is very interesting in that it describes the current dynamics of the enterprise software business. Just to convolute things, the article is about a recent report from Forrester Research, which […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Blue Ocean Strategy, Forrester Research, IDG, InfoWorld, oracle, Oracle Fusion Applications, salesforce.com | 4 Responses

Reading My Own Clippings

Reading My Own Clippings

By Denis Pombriant on January 29, 2013

Like any sane person operating in the wilds of the Internet, I keep a weather eye out for what others might be saying about me.  In other words, I have a vanity search crawling the web to find what there is to find.  Just the other day, someone else’s vanity search (The Blue Ocean Strategy […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Blue Ocean Strategy, CNBC, salesforce.com, Tien Tzuo

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