The Innovator’s Dilemma Meets (and Eats) the Cash Cow at Microsoft
Microsoft is frequently cited as an undervalued stock and a profit machine. But the Innovator’s Dilemma is meeting the BCG Matrix at Microsoft – right now – as the advent of cloud computing destroys the value – and profitability – of their primary Windows and Offices franchises. To the company’s credit, they have recognized the challenge and aggressively attempted to respond, but [...]
An Electronic Invoicing Maturity Model: Supplier Enablement (Part 1)
Please click here for related posts in this series: An Electronic Invoicing Maturity Model: P2P, Data and Systems Linkages (Part 1) An Electronic Invoicing Maturity Model: P2P, Data and Systems Linkages (Part 2) An Electronic Invoicing Maturity Model: Discounting and Payment (Part 1) An Electronic Invoicing Maturity Model: Discounting and Payment (Part 2) We’ve written [...]
Salesforce’s Pragmatism
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, has often said that tactics drive strategy at his company. That’s the opposite of what we think of regarding how decisions should be made especially in big companies. The image is often of high-level decisions being refined into finer grained activities until you have tactics. Much of this is encoded [...]
Facebook hires Google’s former Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl, and increases its commitment to renewables
Google has had an impressive record in renewable energy. They invested over $850m dollars in renewable energy projects to do with geothermal, solar and wind energy. They entered into 20 year power purchase agreements with wind farm producers guaranteeing to buy their energy at an agreed price for twenty years giving the wind farms an [...]
If you were too hungover to join our predictions webcast, here’s the replay
In case you missed our joint webcast with Ed Caso of Wells Fargo Securities on Friday, fear no more, as here’s the replay. You can also download your copy of the slides here. And if you can’t be bothered to listen to any of it, here were some of our predictions* highlights: 1. Outsourcing Providers will [...]
