Strategic Management Course Project
Microsoft’s Strategy Plan Project
Class: NETW583
Session: September 2013
Section I – Microsoft’s Technology Strategy
“Global Diversity and Inclusion are integral to the vision, strategy, and business success of Microsoft. Microsoft officially formed the Office of Diversity & Inclusion in recognition of the fact that leadership in the global marketplace requires a corporate culture and an inclusive business environment where the best and brightest diverse minds—employees with varied perspectives, skills, and experiences—work together to meet consumer demands.” (Microsoft, Global Diversity and Inclusive)
Technology strategy is one of the components that Microsoft embraced to achieve global marketplace leadership. That strategy was sanctioned by some of the dynamics that put Microsoft in advance of its players and these dynamics include (not all): cost saving technology, efficient collaboration, and effective solution.
Saving Technology Cost:
a) Adoption of private cloud
Microsoft wanted to decrease lab space server and bring together a new level of controlling and funding competence. The facility needed to be both competent and flexible adequate to support the inquiry and improvement request of the diverse invention sets, reason why Microsoft put up a high capacity that come across the needs of the inquiry and development to host the private clouds that offer infrastructure as a service (IaaS). This technology strategy diminished the track of on campus lab space, reduced the power consumption, reduce the number of physical systems and the amount of resources required to manage them (this is done by virtualization).
The cost saving technology includes: Private cloud virtualization, Hyper-V, Storage area networks (SANs), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
b) Automation of data quality checks using MS visual studio and MS SQL Server
Microsoft has dropped its expansion and testing stages
Class: NETW583
Session: September 2013
Section I – Microsoft’s Technology Strategy
“Global Diversity and Inclusion are integral to the vision, strategy, and business success of Microsoft. Microsoft officially formed the Office of Diversity & Inclusion in recognition of the fact that leadership in the global marketplace requires a corporate culture and an inclusive business environment where the best and brightest diverse minds—employees with varied perspectives, skills, and experiences—work together to meet consumer demands.” (Microsoft, Global Diversity and Inclusive)
Technology strategy is one of the components that Microsoft embraced to achieve global marketplace leadership. That strategy was sanctioned by some of the dynamics that put Microsoft in advance of its players and these dynamics include (not all): cost saving technology, efficient collaboration, and effective solution.
Saving Technology Cost:
a) Adoption of private cloud
Microsoft wanted to decrease lab space server and bring together a new level of controlling and funding competence. The facility needed to be both competent and flexible adequate to support the inquiry and improvement request of the diverse invention sets, reason why Microsoft put up a high capacity that come across the needs of the inquiry and development to host the private clouds that offer infrastructure as a service (IaaS). This technology strategy diminished the track of on campus lab space, reduced the power consumption, reduce the number of physical systems and the amount of resources required to manage them (this is done by virtualization).
The cost saving technology includes: Private cloud virtualization, Hyper-V, Storage area networks (SANs), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
b) Automation of data quality checks using MS visual studio and MS SQL Server
Microsoft has dropped its expansion and testing stages
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