Can't resist this one from Wharton - on Microsoft

Can't resist this one from Wharton - on Microsoft

Entitled 'Microsoft's Multiple Challenges' the argument goes like this:

(1) Microsoft's size can be a handicap. Updates take ages, new products even longer. Google is nimbler, for example
(2) there's "brain drain" and Microsoft's ability to develop a new generation of leaders is questionable, especially when it's harder to offer the 'ground floor' opportunities of the past.

It makes me wonder if Wharton isn't thinking of IBM rather than Microsoft, but there you go. However they also don't count Microsoft out - yet. Size may overwhelm nimbleness if the right moves are made. Read more...