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The Importance of Vision

By Jeff Raikes | Microsoft: Product Innovation in Software Lecture 5 of 11

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Lecture Description

Raikes explains that PowerPoint was created as a new way to present overhead slides. Microsoft made the bet that people would be willing to change the way they present information and launched PowerPoint into one of their most successful applications.  You have to listen to your customers, but you also have to see beyond what your customers do now to what they might do in the future, he says.

Course Index

  1. Be Open to Opportunity
  2. Overview of Microsoft Today
  3. Challenges in Structure Transformation - Microsoft Business Divisions
  4. The Principle of Agility
  5. The Importance of Vision
  6. Innovation in Business Models
  7. The Value of Broad-Based Leadership and Experience.
  8. Small/Medium Businesses and the Internet
  9. The Principle of Persistence
  10. Choosing the Path That is Right for You
  11. Can a Company Be Successful at Both Software and Hardware?
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