wer resources. It initiated to tax on carbon power use internally before charging its external clients.
Risk Reduction – Microsoft has encouraged all its employees to understand the energy related risks. Microsoft has begun to address its employees and customers to operate through cloud-based services. They utilize significantly their own power and reduce predictable variable cost that brings down the costs and adds to the renewable energy figures.
Sales at Vendor Choice – Through its customer feedbacks and previous reports analysis, they have found that the customers are in search of reliable service providers at lower costs and lower carbon emissions. Thus, they have emphasised on alternative energy resources to land new customers and expand their operations with existing clients.
Human Resource Management 人力资源管理
Human Resource at Microsoft is a priority as the company drives on the path of success based on their employee’s performance. In the beginning, Microsoft used to recruit employee based on their experience over intelligence. But during the slow down of the company’s success, it realised that their employee performance was going down. Bill Gates re-invented the recruitment strategy model by recruiting intelligent staff over experienced staff. According to his experience, he found that intelligence drives aggression in performance. CEO Steve Ballmer says, “whenever you meet a kick-ass guy, get him” (Bartlett 2). They re-modeled the human resource hiring strategy & policies: Attract & retain employees, Increase organizational insight, Store and access employee information, Personalize Role Centers to speed productivity & Provide online access with employee Portal. Soon, realizing that employee’s are the greatest assets of a company. Microsoft’s strategies started to reflect this philosophy. The human resource management had the following steps: Recruitment & selection, Employee motivation, Employee loyalty & satisfaction and Employee rewards. They broke down projects and decided to coherent a strategy of center of excellence to enhance project timing and coordination. Thus, you can measure Microsoft’s success in the recent years based on their employee performance and efficiency.
International Business
Technology Management
Microsoft partners with CA Technologies to address its top IT needs. IT companies face fierce competition and challenges like sustainability, IT innovation, management and greener computing. It delivers solutions combine current technology with advanced technology. Technology helps to maximise investments along with security and redundancy to match with the current and future business goals.
Analysis of entrepreneurship and innovation at the company
Future Strategies Management
Adaptive Systems and Interaction:
The Adaptive Systems & Interaction group (ASI) pursues research on automated reasoning, adaptation, and human-computer interaction. Interests of the group include principles and applications of decision-making and learning, computation in the face of complexity, techniques for information management and search, and the development and evaluation of innovative designs for visualization and interaction.
Research goals include both the pursuit of basic science and the development of computing and com