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I find it pretty amazing how a huge, publicly traded company that was in the beginnings of a cultural death spiral (circa 2010) managed to pull itself together.
by alexose 10y ago
I find it pretty amazing how a huge, publicly traded company that was in the beginnings of a cultural death spiral (circa 2010) managed to pull itself together. I can't think of many examples of leadership abandoning the philosophy that led them to dominate the market (embrace, extend, and extinguish) in favor of something else (innovation, community engagement, participating in open-source movements).
The anthropology behind it could be valuable to many other companies, I think.
- troymc 10y agoIndeed, they somehow managed to resolve the Innovator's Dilemma. As such, they really are worth studying. No doubt there are MBA programs with Microsoft case studies.
- robodale 10y ago...and I get the feeling that they have just turned the corner and are now pickup up speed in the innovate-release-feedback loop.
- Diederich 10y agoIBM has been 'pulling itself together' for a long, long time. It seems like a relatively rare thing.