Microsoft’s Creative Destruction
This New York Times Op-Ed piece by Dick Brass addresses why so few of the innovative ideas out of Microsoft’s research labs reach the market:
Unlike other companies, Microsoft never developed a true system for innovation. Some of my former colleagues argue that it actually developed a system to thwart innovation. Despite having one of the largest and best corporate laboratories in the world, and the luxury of not one but three chief technology officers, the company routinely manages to frustrate the efforts of its visionary thinkers.