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Microsoft Secrets: How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People - Softcover
Beyond the unquestioned genius and vision of CEO Bill Gates, what accounts for Microsoft's astounding success? Microsoft commands the high ground of the information superhighway by owning the operating systems and basic applications programs that run on the world's 170 million computers. Drawing on two years of unrestricted access to confidential documents and project data, eminent technology-scientists Cusumano and Selby reveal, for the first time, many of Microsoft's innermost secrets. Forty in -depth interviews with employees enabled the authors to identify seven key strategies which demonstrate exactly how Microsoft competes and operates. They reveal a style of leadership, organization, competition and product development which is both consistent with the company's loosely structured 'programmer' culture and remarkably effective for mass-market production of software. Managers in many different industries will discove hundreds of invaluable lessons in this superbly readable book.
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This is a "facts ma'am, nothing but the facts" examination of how Microsoft works, both internally, and in the marketplace. Unlike the raft of gossipy Bill-bios or sardonic and shrill pro- or anti-screeds, this book is focused clearly (if sometimes ploddingly) on one central question: the relationship between business strategies and software development. And, since Microsoft is increasingly focused on the Internet, it is essential reading not just for software companies, but for all Internet companies as well.
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A unique glimpse into the company's inner workings (Daily Telegraph)
Anyone intending to approach their bank manager to fund their own software company should make this book the centre of their business plan (Computer Weekly)
If you want to know the answers - how did Microsoft get to its dominant position, what is it doing to maintain that dominant position, and what are its plans for expanding its dominance - this is the book to read (Lester C. Thurow, Sloan School of Management MIT)
A fascinating book about a fascinating company (Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline)
Anyone intending to approach their bank manager to fund their own software company should make this book the centre of their business plan (Computer Weekly)
If you want to know the answers - how did Microsoft get to its dominant position, what is it doing to maintain that dominant position, and what are its plans for expanding its dominance - this is the book to read (Lester C. Thurow, Sloan School of Management MIT)
A fascinating book about a fascinating company (Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline)
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- PublisherProfile Books
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 1861975325
- ISBN 13 9781861975324
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages526
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