Microsoft Secrets : How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People

Name: Microsoft Secrets : How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People
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ISBN: 9780006387855

ISBN-10: 0006387853

ISBN-13: 9780006387855

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Authors: Michael A. Cusumano, Richard W. Selby

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Today, 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. This work gives an insider's view of the company and attempts to account for its success.

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List price: $8.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Publication date: 7/7/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.87" long
Language: English

Michael A. Cusumanois the Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and one of the world's leading authorities on software development and the management of software companies. He is the author or coauthor of seven other books, including the bestsellersMicrosoft SecretsandCompeting on Internet Time, as well asJapan's Software Factoriesand most recentlyPlatform Leadership.

Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface
Introduction
Organizing and Managing the Company
Find "Smart" People Who Know the Technology and the Business
Managing Creative People and Technical Skills
Organize Small Teams of Overlapping Functional Specialists
Competing with Products and Standards
Pioneer and Orchestrate Evolving Mass Markets
Defining Products and Development Processes
Focus Creativity by Evolving Features and "Fixing" Resources
Developing and Shipping Products
Do Everything in Parallel, with Frequent Synchronizations
Building a Learning Organization
Improve Through Continuous Self-Critiquing, Feedback, and Sharing
Attack the Future!
Appendixes
Microsoft Chronology Main Microsoft Desktop and Business Applications
Microsoft Operating Systems Applications
Division Employee Survey Selected Chronology of Microsoft Agreements for the Information Highway
Interviews
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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