Luttwak's Paradox of Strategy: if you get ahead, it is easy to start
losing: your organisation becomes too large for the decision-making
process to reflect your strategy; your lines of communication become
stretched and the enemy can take you from behind, so to speak; your
quality control loses its edge etc ... I might have mis-quoted Edvard
Luttwak, but the principles remain: it is difficult to be a large
organisation and remain effective or true to your principles when once
you were small.
No, I am not saying that MS is losing, but it is certainly not
maintaining many of the principles that got Mr Gates to the top in the
first place; it is economies of scale and the power of that scale that
keep MS at the top.
Chris
On 1 Jan 2005, at 09:10, James N. McBride wrote:
> Mac users are a loyal bunch. Most people I know that have switched
> from Mac
> to PC did so because they were forced to by their management or needed
> to
> run software that didn't run easily on the Mac. Most of our computers
> have
> been quite reliable but Windows can be quirky sometimes in ways that
> drive
> the user wild. With all the brain power at Microsoft it would seem
> that they
> could do better. I'm no expert but think the tighter controls on system
> architecture by Apple make a lot of difference in system reliability.
> Is
> that the major factor? /jmac
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