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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454396403321

Autore

Phelps Marshall

Titolo

Burning the ships [[electronic resource] ] : intellectual property and the transformation of Microsoft / / Marshall Phelps, David Kline

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2009

ISBN

1-282-13768-9

9786612137686

0-470-49408-5

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 186 p. ) : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

KlineDavid <1950->

Disciplina

346.730486

Soggetti

Computer software - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

About the Authors. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Chapter 1 The Collaboration Imperative. Chapter 2 Like Cortez Burning His Ships. Chapter 3 Money Isn't Money Anymore. Chapter 4 A Very Secret Mission. Chapter 5 Leadership Starts at the Top. Chapter 6 The Road Ahead (with Apologies to Bill Gates). Index.

Sommario/riassunto

'Burning the Ships' offers a dramatic insider's account of how Microsoft used intellectual property to remake its business strategy and embrace the open source movement and the new innovation world - with real-world benefits for large enterprise customers and chief information officers everywhere.