Adam Bryant interviews Satya Nadella, who says — and convincingly — that Microsoft needs to change, which in today’s business world means harnessing an entrepreneurial mindset in which change is always… Read more »
NewsGator, the work management company that extends the capabilities of Microsoft Sharepoint, has announced the acquisition of Sitrion, a company that creates a social communication layer on top of SAP processes… Read more »
I saw a link to a 2009 Harvard Business Review piece by Gary Hamel, the well-known management theorist, in which he calls for a new era of management thinking: Gary Hamel, Moon… Read more »
I saw this post by one of the founders of AngelList, and I thought it was illustrative of some of the challenges of the lean social approach that I have been… Read more »
Here’s corollary to the post yesterday (What does a ‘No Fire’ policy change? Everything.) where I reported on a CEO that instituted a ‘no fire’ policy, and discovered it led to 0%… Read more »
I had an interesting discussion with Mike Rhodin, IBM’s SVP Software Solutions Group, at the recent IBM Connections conference. Instead of focusing on products, we relatively quickly started to discuss social… Read more »
The pace of innovation in web software is dizzying. Everyday there are new applications, new releases of established products with very different features, and the disappearance of tools that we may… Read more »
We’ve all experienced a bucket of cold water tossed in our faces during a corporate brainstorming session, perhaps by a colleague professing to be refining ideas, or a senior manager endlessly… Read more »