Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Corporation began company operations on April 4, 1975. Bill Gates, together with Paul Allen established the company and engaged in the business of computer technology. The overall management of the company was carried by Bill Gates who stayed in the position until 2000. The company found lucrative venture in Microsoft Windows operating system together with Microsoft Office business productivity software. The leadership of Mr. Gates was then transferred to Mr. Steve Ballmer who was also amazed by the huge opportunity of Office and Windows.
Mr. Ballmer believed that the future of Microsoft is built on a long-term commitment to effectively carry out company operation in the midst of the growing global diversity and business competition. Company initiatives are geared towards striving to become one with the people in realizing their innate capabilities (Microsoft). The company understands that global competitiveness is an actual component of the core values and business imperatives of every organization. This is the reason why the company employs the best talents from all over the world to be able to have an edge over other competitors. Additionally, the company’s competitiveness will bring about better services for their customers as well as to their business associates.
Mr. Steve Ballmer joined Microsoft Corporation in 1980 and became the company’s first business manager. He was a product of Harvard University where he earned the degree in Mathematics and Economics. He had previous working experience with Procter and Gamble Company where he served as assistant product manager and decided to pursue further studies at the Graduate School of Business in Stanford University (MS). Before his appointment ...
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...ve Courses of Action (ACA)
Change the CEO with an insider.
Change the CEO with an outsider.
Replace the head of human resources department.
Adopt Alternatives 1 and 3.
Adopt Alternatives 2 and 3.
Recommendations
There is a need to adopt alternative course of action number 4 on the basis of having a new CEO who knows the present culture of the organization and the corresponding internal problems. There is also a need to change the human resource officer and change organizational culture to a more dynamic and organization-centered approach. It can be noted that because the present strategy is employee-centered, many employee become personally interested with their own goals at the expense of the organization. Having a new structure that is responsive to the vision and mission of the organization will help a lot in achieving a bigger market share in future operations.
At just twenty years old, Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. He is now the richest man in the world with over $85.2 billion to his name. So why did Microsoft end up being way more successful than any computer program like it? The answer is because of the free enterprise system, and competition. Gate's product was considered new and innovative at the time, which made customers want to try it out.
Microsoft has greatly impacted the State of Washington and has created an innovation powerhouse created by a man with a "impossible dream". Microsoft Corporation is one of the most well known and successful businesses in the state. Along with Boeing, and Amazon, Microsoft's value sits very high in the financial world. The founder, Bill Gates, worked very hard to rise to the challenge of competing with other technology companies. With all his hard work and effort he made his dream of success come true.
Microsoft has devoted huge amounts of effort to marketing in developing their products and services, as well as to the integration of their software products with one another in an attempt to create a seamless and consistent computing environment for the user.
"Microsoft Corporation, is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44.28 billion and 71,553 employees in 102 countries as of July 2006. It develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its best selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software, each of which has achieved near-ubiquity in the desktop computer market. Microsoft possesses footholds in other markets, with assets such as the MSNBC cable television network, the MSN Internet portal, and the Microsoft Encarta multimedia encyclopedia. The company also markets both computer hardware products such as the Microsoft mouse as well as home entertainment products such as the Xbox, Xbox 360 and MSN TV" ("Microsoft").
In this paper, team B will discuss the internal and external factors of the Microsoft Corporation. We will explain how these factors affect the four functions of management, planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Also, we will explain how globalization, technology, innovation, diversity and ethics will be delegated to manage the different factors. Microsoft Corporation was established in 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico producing software for developing, manufacturing, licensing, and support for range of software products and service for different type of computing devices. Microsoft grew from six employees to the largest personal computer software company in the world. By 1978, Microsoft earned $500,000 in the first quarter, and by the end of the year they earned revenue of $1,000,000. In the early 1980s Microsoft, in collaboration with IBM they released MS-DOS as their first 16-bit operating system. However after the late 1980s, Microsoft started to build its reputation by creating the Microsoft windows operating system and Microsoft office product, which includes internet explorer, excel, PowerPoint, and word programs. Then in the late 1990s, Microsoft teamed with Sega to incorporated their windows software package into the game developer’s Dreamcast hardware. Also they developed their own gaming system called the Xbox and that eventually was replaced by the xbox360. Microsoft has come a long way and is no longer just a worldwide leader in computer programming but also a major part of the technology world. Microsoft windows have been the flagship and accounts for most of its revenue for Microsoft: but the company has also branched ...
What are the three or four most important drivers of Microsoft’s business model over the past 10 to 15 years that have accounted for the company’s spectacular results?
And then there's Microsoft themselves. After Bill Gates handed over CEO to Steve Ballmer, all hell broke loose as humans raged about him. During the first twenty years of Microsoft, they were considered an evil monopolistic empire, destroying all competitors that came their way. Back then, if you wanted word processing software, you used Office. Want a computer o...
I believe that Microsoft has the best intensions for society, because they are constantly developing the software market into a more competitive and challenging industry. Microsoft’s success as a company is partly due to its commitment to making the best product possible and strategic business practices. The first reason Microsoft is not a monopoly is because of the standardized quality of its OS. Second is the intelligent business practices Microsoft has engaged in through many of its business partners. The legal issues of the alleged antitrust accusations from the department of justice are just totally overrated.
Microsoft is currently the largest company in the computer industry. With a market capitalization of $291 billion, Microsoft has built an empire by dominating software sales for personal computers. Stock growth over the past 25 years has increased by more than 30,000%. However, Microsoft’s growth has substantially decreased since the market collapse of 2001(Niemond 25 April 2007).
Microsoft has always been known as a software company, and not well known for its hardware. In fact, the only hardware that Microsoft sells to the retail market is branded peripherals. In its heyday, Microsoft was a market leader, bring an operating system to the masses, and leading in internet search. In recent years, however, most of the moves that Microsoft has made have not been in a market leader position, but have been in response to competitors threatening Microsoft’s positions.
Gates suggested that IBM “license it and charge a fee for the software” (Bill. Biography). Over the next three years, everything “exploded” and the stock price shot up. Gates and Allen incorporated Microsoft, with Gates as president and Chairman” (Bill. Biography). Microsoft was eventually “running thirty percent of the world’s software”. The IBM deal was possibly the biggest event in the history of Microsoft.
Microsoft was originally created in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. They first introduced their software package, Window 1.0 in 1983, the first package to consist of a mouse which helps navigate a PC. MS-DOS commands were previously used to operate computer systems, however people found these extremely hard to understand. This Windows 1.0 package was a key turning point in Microsoft emergence. As time progressed Microsoft created updated versions which consisted of advanced graphics, built-in internet support, dial-up networking and much more (Microsoft, 2011). Windows packages started from Window 1.0 to the current version whic...
The first phase is introducing the change in an organization to the employee by justifying the change (Berube, 2012). Change in an organization is necessary to cope with the fast changing environment and meet the organization’s goal. The top-management is responsible to explain clearly the importance of change execute in an organization to the employee. It is necessary since there are some of experience employee is refuse to accept change and senses that change will lower their reputation and position in the working environment. As elaborated by Brown (2011), there will be criticized, ridicule and persecute in change towards any approaches used in introducing change of the organization. At this stage, la...
When IBM end the agreement for the operating system to be bundled with the IBM Clone personal computers, Bill Gates stayed on and began concentrating on developing Windows amidst a lot of hiccups that will obstruct the corporation. Creating the MS Access database system was a pertinent due to the failure of the Omega Database with IBM. Bill Gates saw a chance at each single place that facilitated him to achieve maximum heights. He did not let others to perceive him by discovering many things to the world and still achieving his top most vision and goals.
"Bill Gates is a modern business phenomenon: the greatest of the cyber-tycoons. His is not simply a story of technical brilliance and enormous wealth; it is one of remarkable business vision and an obsessive desire to win. It is also about a leadership style that is radically different to anything the business world has seen before."