Microsoft Headline in 2013

"2013: Microsoft announces Office 2014 for Windows, Linux und OSX"

The new release will be out for all platforms at the same time.

That's a realistic szenario, isn't it? Microsoft will be there one day, that's for sure.

Alternative Szenario: "Microsoft speeds up Web-based Office Migration" - Office 2010 is be the last OS-based Office, the new one will run in the Browser.

Uh, oh, what will the future look like? Or, in other words, where's the money?

Technology Management

How can we as the IT department of a large company support our business as good as possible? What's the current status? How did we get there? Where should we aim for tomorrow? Which technology should we select for our purpose?

There is a lot of questions and there is a lot of technology in a large company. Time goes by, and even more technology is added onto the bandwagon - it seems so overloaded sometimes. Wait a minute, is it? Are we heading for the right direction? The only way to find out that we start to manage it properly, on all necessary levels.

OK, the usual stuff, of course:

• Vision
• Strategy and goals
  
• Planning
• Strategy execution and tactics
• Every here and then, rethink vision and strategy, and adapt, if necessary

That's the top down approach. This works if you have a powerful central organization structure. It's not worth the paper written on, if the company is decentrally organized. Nobody will care about your vision and the strategy to get there.