More on Innovation for Growth from Thought Leaders

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  5.10.2013 Roy Sharples

  Turning Chaos into Cash

  How is technology being used in your organization to better enable business growth through the creation and realization of new business models and revenue streams? How is innovation being managed from envisioning, incubating and bringing to market new products, services and experiences profitably? Innovation has moved from the periphery of many corporate agendas to become the core element for strategic growth. Many businesses are looking to better industrialize the creation of wealth through creative business practice coupled with the organizational capability and capacity to execute...
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  6.25.2012 Enterprise Team

  Strategy is Innovation

  Vijay Govindarajan, the bestselling author of Reverse Innovation and professor at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business, and keynote speaker at Microsoft's Global High Tech Summit share...

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  11.28.2011 Tony Scott

  CIO and CMO: Closer Than Ever Before

  I travel the globe speaking with a lot of CIOs, sharing best practices and learning what’s new. They tell me there has been a change in the importance of their relationship with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Today’s consumers want real-time access to companies. They want a rich dialog and immediate access to products and services. And they want this primarily online. This ‘digitization of business’ creates new dependencies at all levels of an organization. CIOs are no longer hidden deep within the infrastructure of an organization. We are more visible in the Board Room and are becoming an important consideration in how a company interacts with its customers...
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  10.25.2011 Paula Klein

  Microsoft on Innovation: Support Organizational Performance

  A company’s strong performance today is no guarantee of longevity: companies that survive and prosper in the long term continually adapt, evolve, and reinvent themselves to stay relevant in the changing marketplace. Microsoft corporate vice president and CIO, Tony Scott says that "successful innovation is more than just invention. True innovation must also support organizational performance, either by directly contributing to revenue growth or by delivering new efficiencies that help improve a business’s competitiveness."
• 7.22.2012 Tony Scott

  How the Modern CIO Shifts from Infrastructure Optimization to Innovation

  This trends report addresses several questions commonly asked by enterprises: How quickly will I be able to move elements of my technology infrastructure to the cloud to address innova...
• 7.19.2012 Enterprise Team

  Strong Union Technology Brings Mobile Banking to Millions

  Many large banks in China were looking to add new services for their commercial customers. Strong Union Technology developed a mobile banking solution that uses Windows Embedded Standard to create kio...

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• 7.19.2012 Research

  Visualizing the History of Everything

  ChronoZoom is an open-source community project dedicated to visualizing the history of everything. Big History is the attempt to understand, in a unified, interdisciplinary way, the history of cosmos, Eart...

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• 6.24.2012 Enterprise Team

  Interfacing Innovation

  Emerging technologies in the areas of the cloud, big data, mobility, social computing, and natural user interfaces (NUI) present new opportunities for companies t...
• 6.24.2012 Tony Scott

  The CIO’s Role in Innovation

  Tony Scott, Microsoft’s CIO shares his perspective on the role that the CIO and IT plays in Innovation.

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• 4.8.2012 Suzi LeVine

  The Imagine Cup U.S. Finals This Weekend!

  For college basketball players, it’s the NCAA Tournament. For aspiring pop stars, it’s American Idol. But for tech students, there’s no bigger challenge than the Imagine Cup.
• 3.23.2012 Jordan Chrysafidis

  Join Us: Microsoft Virtual CIO Summit, April 24, 2012

  I would like to personally invite you join me on April 24, 2012 at 8:30am (PST) as I host the 2nd Annual US CIO Summit Virtual Event. This exclusive event will be broadcast live from...
• 3.8.2012 David Spinelli

  A Mergers & Acquisitions Playbook for CIOs, Part 1

  Business transactions, be it mergers, acquisitions, divestitures or joint ventures, are nothing more than actions of business strategies. The ultimate goals of M&A deals vary, but they’re typically intended to...
• 1.1.2012 Roy Sharples

  Customer Centricity in Retail

  Retail customers are increasingly well-informed. Retail businesses are too. Their customers are providing more information about themselves, in endless streams of both observed...
• 1.1.2012 Roy Sharples

  Trading Platform of the Future: A Microsoft Industry Perspective for Capital Markets

  The capital markets industry is at an inflection point, as the unsettled landscape presents nearly unprecedented risks and also rapidly evolving growth opportunities...
• 11.24.2011 Paul Bryan

  Paul Bryan on Innovation with Windows Phone

  Innovation comes in different shapes and sizes. Where should organizations put their focus to...
• 11.24.2011 Bob Violino

  Innovation and the Retail Industry

  Business innovation not only helps companies enhance processes and improve the bottom line, it also allows them to stand out from competitors in a dramatic way. That’s certa...
• 10.25.2011 Paula Klein

  Innovation in the Public Sector? You Betcha!

  Contrary to what many believe, lots of public-sector agencies and governments are very innovative when it comes to IT. That’s the finding of research conducted by Dr. Mark W.S...
• 10.25.2011 Bob Violino

  Students Drive Innovation

  Creating a culture of innovation is more critical than ever to a company’s success. Customers and business partners expect organizations to embrace new and inventive ways of pr...
• 10.25.2011 Paula Klein

  IT Driven Innovation: Not as Easy as You Think

  It would seem that all an IT team has to do is snap its fingers and innovation happens. After all, these are the best and brightest technologists in the enterprise working...
• 9.28.2011 Enterprise Team

  Brad Anderson on IT’s Central Role in Attracting Best and Brightest

  Companies often interview/hire employees who are resistant to IT control over the devices they use for work and collaboration. What’s your sense...
• 9.18.2011 Barry Briggs

  Beyond the Back Office: Innovation and the CIO

  Innovation is at the heart of business growth—accelerating speed to market, improving and developing business processes, partnering with business groups to develop new products/services, creating more cus...

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• 8.30.2011 Tony Scott

  Tony Scott Ponders on the Creative Management of IT Complexity

  How are creative CIOs dealing with the consumerization of IT and managing the use of technology to bridge the intersection of work and personal life across generations, support consumer and enterprise requireme...

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• 8.10.2011 Enterprise Team

  Harvard Law’s Jonathan Zittrain Tackles Net Neutrality, Copyright, and Innovation

  Should people have the ability to connect to any other point on the Internet? Have copyright extensions deadened the pace of U.S. innovation? And what is the generative pattern of technology? Microsoft C...

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• 7.27.2011 Enterprise Team

  The Future of Productivity: A Microsoft Insider View

  Many potential barriers can prevent information workers from making the most of corporate IP to make informed decisions. Join Microsoft Director and Worldwide Strategy Lead for Business Intelligence Br...

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• 7.21.2011 Tony Scott

  Tony Scott on Leadership in Today’s Enterprise

  “CIOs increasingly have the best view of all of the things that are going on across the whole business,” Tony notes.

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• 7.21.2011 Tony Scott

  Reaching Beyond the Enterprise and Helping to Make the World a Better Place

  Why is it important for CIOs and other executives to get behind philanthropic initiatives? What are some of the charitable projects Microsoft is currently involved with, and how can other corporate executives an...

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• 6.19.2011 Suzi LeVine

  Imagine Cup 2011: People’s Choice and the Technologies the Competitors are Using

  As I shared in my previous posts about the Imagine Cup and Collaboration and then about the US Finals, the Imagine Cup is a competition that challenges students (ages 16+) to use technolo...
• 4.15.2011 Steven Ramirez

  The Microsoft Home: The Technology That Dreams Are Made Of

  Who hasn’t dreamed of a house that you can interact with just by speaking its name? Or a kitchen that helps you prepare a meal? Or a child’s bedroom with walls...
• 4.13.2011 Suzi LeVine

  The Imagine Cup: Collaboration at its Finest Yields Powerful Solutions

  What do students studying business, industrial engineering, writing, social anthropology, pathology, art and computer science have in common? Usually not too much...
• 3.16.2011 David Spinelli

  A Mergers & Acquisitions Playbook for CIOs, Part 2

  This is part 2 of a guest post by David Spinelli, intellectual property (IP) development manager, and George Anderson, IP architect, Enterprise Strategy Services team within Microsoft’s Services organization...