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“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” — Sun Tzu Some say Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, taught the elephant how to dance. Microsoft is the elephant here. Microsoft is a mega company. You just don’t do that. Well, Satya did. He did what …
“Get your facts first. Then you can distort them as you please.” — Mark Twain I learned a lot about business cases over the years, simply by working in the space of enterprise strategy and digital transformation. I want so share what I learned at Microsoft about building business cases for the Cloud to help …
“What is coming is better than what is gone.” — Arabic Proverb Here’s an example of a vision memo I wrote to try and paint the vision and idea of business evangelism at Microsoft as a way to accelerate and de-risk Digital Transformation. Well, it’s really focused on the idea of building the business innovation …
You need to transform your business so it’s ready and resilient for your ever changing world. Your Future Business needs you to do this now. Jennifer Choo, Jean Oi, Christopher Thomas, and Xue Wu wrote an interesting article in The Diplomat, called After Covid-19: Rebooting Business in China. It’s a survey of Chinese business leaders …
“The future ain’t what it used to be.” — Yogi Berra A well-written, narrative Memo of your vision is perhaps the greatest way that any leader, or innovator, or futurist, or individual can share and scale their idea with the world. In my experience, there is no better way to share an idea, a dream, …
