“michael a cusumano”

Drawing on two years of unrestricted access to confidential documents and project data, eminent technology-scientists Cusumano and Selby reveal, for the first time, many of Microsoft's innermost secrets. Forty in-depth interviews with employees enabled the authors to identify seven key strategies wh... More

A leading expert on the global software industry reveals the inner working of software giants like IBM, Microsoft, and Netscape, and shows what it takes to create, develop, and manage a successful company--in good times and bad--in the most fiercely competitive business in the world.The world's lead... More

Though Japan has successfully competed with U.S. companies in the manufacturing and marketing of computer hardware, it has been less successful in developing computer programs. This book contains the first detailed analysis of how Japanese firms have tried to redress this imbalance by applying their... More

This "Business Week" Best Book of 1998 charts the incredible rise of Netscape, which grew from a small start-up to a $7 billion computer software company in less than two years. Line art.Competing on Internet time means competitive advantage can be won and lost overnight. In this penetrating analysi... More

"Lean Thinking" has dominated product development and project management for over a decade. Now, however, a six-year study by MIT's International Motor Vehicle Program led by Michael Cusumano and Kentaro Nobeoka finds that, in order to dramatically improve product portfolios, Toyota and other leadin... More

From the acclaimed MIT Sloan Management Review comes a compendium of cutting-edge thinking about corporate strategy. Focusing on strategic imperatives of the new economy, leading thinkers in the field present their views in four general areas: strategy and value creation; flexibility in a volatile w... More

Based on highly confidential interviews with personnel, internal memos, and top-secret company documents, this compelling portrait reveals the philosophy, style, and competitive strategies that have taken Microsoft to the heights of the high-tech industry.Today, Microsoft commands the high ground of... More

Greece, it has been said, is where art became inseparable from life. The country evokes a richly embroidered tapestry of images, from old monuments rife with history to idyllic isles of glass-blue sea and blinding-white stucco dwellings. Greece enchants its visitors with its beauty, tradition, and s... More