Most of the integrated innovation points are about reducing complexity," he said. The biggest problem we have right now is that people who should be paying for software aren't," Ballmer told an audience of technology executives at an industry...
Selling software as a service rather than as bits means swifter innovation, he added, because deploying improvements within a single service is faster than distributing it to innumerable customers who must then install and test it: "You eliminate...
Many of China's IT executives are alumni of prestigious universities and a good proportion of companies are based close to college campuses to simplify HR and R&D requirements. For us engineering students there are a lot of problems because...
Two-thirds of the 1,400 CIOs surveyed globally said their companies expect to increase their market share or expand in 2007, and that business executives want IT to raise current performance and build new capabilities.
Part of the CIO's role is to ensure that senior executives are fully conversant with technology issues," he said. They certainly don't need to be an expert - they can hire experts - but they need to be able to drive innovation and change by...
Greater visibility of development projects, evaluation and measurement of estimates, as well as very clearly stated expectations. I sometimes wonder if there is any place for it in a modern organisation that prides itself on competition between...