Hi readers, My apologies. We up and moved, but didn’t leave a forwarding address. Sorry about that. Since late October 2012, Microsoft IT employees have been blogging and sharing videos on Microsoft’s external website. The new blog is located here. Here’s what has been published since late October. Paul Slater did in fact publish part…
Microsoft IT Experience in application portfolio management
This is a guest post from Paul Slater, an intellectual property development architect from the Enterprise Strategy team within Microsoft’s Services organization. In part 1, he’ll discuss the background and strategy to Microsoft’s internal line-of-business application portfolio management. In part 2, he’ll discuss important considerations for successful application portfolio management. Through the Enterprise Strategy program,…
Hybrid cloud model: update on Microsoft IT application migration
This is a guest post by Patrick O’Rourke, director within the strategy, planning and communications team in Microsoft IT. For those who read this blog you know that Microsoft IT is in the midst of transforming the company into a real-time enterprise. The vision of real-time enterprise is about increasing the speed of the company’s…
Deploying Windows 8 within Microsoft
This is a guest post by Patrick O’Rourke, director within the strategy, planning and communications team in Microsoft IT. If you’ve read this blog before then you know that one of the roles of Microsoft IT is to be the first customer of Microsoft’s commercial products and services. Through this program the IT department manages…
Podcast: Tony Scott discusses Microsoft IT transformation to business process, digitization of business
Tony Scott was recently interviewed by Peter High, president of Metis Strategy, for the “Forum on World Class IT” podcast series. During the 30-minute interview, Tony discusses the following issues with Peter: The genesis of Microsoft IT’s transformation to align to business processes, and how it derives from the desire to get the IT organization, systems architecture,…
How the Modern CIO Shifts from Infrastructure Optimization to Innovation
This trends report addresses several questions commonly asked by enterprises: How quickly will I be able to move elements of my technology infrastructure to the cloud to address innovation? What steps will I need to take to leverage the cloud to my advantage? Can I achieve business value through Hybrid IT approaches? How do the…
The CIO’s Role in Innovation
Tony Scott, Microsoft’s CIO shares his perspective on the role that the CIO and IT plays in Innovation.
Supplier Sourcing for Real-Time Enterprise
This is a guest post by Danielle Fox de Aguilar, director of supplier management in Microsoft IT. Danielle and team manage the worldwide supplier program for Microsoft’s internal IT department, which includes thousands of resources from 300 supplier agencies. In September 2011, my colleague and Microsoft IT Chief Architect Barry Briggs blogged about how…
Help CIOs Grow and Transform with the Cloud – part 2
This is a guest post by Microsoft Enterprise Team. In this video Microsoft CIO Tony Scott discusses budgeting, IT talent, data access and operations when moving to the cloud.
Help CIOs Grow and Transform with the Cloud – part 1
This is a guest post by Microsoft Enterprise Team. Join Microsoft CIO Tony Scott as he shares his insight on the various aspects of the cloud such as benefits, time to market, employee productivity and maintaining or reducing IT cost.