We’ve heard that Microsoft’s board is eager to bring on a new CEO before the end of the year to replace outgoing Steve Ballmer (see Who’s calling the shots?), and there is… Read more »
Who Will Be Calling The Shots At Microsoft? I wrote this week about Stephen Elop’s willingness to ax some of Microsoft’s products if he were to get the CEO role at… Read more »
Meg Whitman’s turnaround has not been going well. In late August Whitman told analysts that she doesn’t expect the company to grow its revenues in the coming fiscal year, and she… Read more »
Marissa Mayer’s newest bit of non-strategic putzing around — which I fear may be the case in the acquisition spree she’s been on — is the unveiling of a new logo… Read more »
After a year at Yahoo, I have to give Marissa Mayer at least a B. She’s managed to keep investors happy — partly by a fairly aggressive stock buy back, using… Read more »
“Socialized business process” — the idea of adding social tools to traditional business processes — is unlikely to work in the long term. The enterprise is now transitioning to social network–based… Read more »
Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer is back in the news following news that Yahoo has changed its parental leave policy, moving it to be more in line with that of Google and Facebook… Read more »
And doesn’t say much: “There’s a theory I subscribe to: that people are more productive when they’re alone, but they’re more collaborative and innovative when they’re together.” Successful organizations have very… Read more »
Social business technologies remain in the foreground of discussions about business transformation, but the events of the first quarter of 2013 raised as many questions as they answered, or more. Read more »