Is Microsoft in the growing or aging stage of its lifecycle?

The following Reuters article by Bill Rigby provides excellent insight into where Microsoft is in its lifecycle, how it got there and where it might be heading.

http://www.reuters.com/article/comments/idUSTRE69P45I20101027

 

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About corporatelifecycles
Ian MacDougall is the Founder of Corporate LifeCycles Inc - a consulting firm which specializes in large-scale organizational change – including lifecycle diagnosis, organization mission, values, strategy, structure, accountability and reward systems. The mission of Corporate LifeCycles is to make organizational change more effective and to liberate the client from reliance on consultants as quickly as possible. Corporate LifeCycles recognizes that consultants can never match the cumulative knowledge resident within the client organization, and so our core change management process -- Pathway to PRIME® -- seeks to incorporate that knowledge and experience into each diagnosis and prescription. We help our client discover their own solutions and in this way build ownership and commitment to implementation. We believe that while ideas are a commodity – execution is not. Prior to founding Corporate LifeCycles, Mr. MacDougall was President and Senior Associate of Adizes Associates, Inc in Los Angeles, California. Ian MacDougall has consulted with government agencies as well as small, medium and large corporations worldwide in a diverse range of industries, including aerospace, defense, manufacturing, publishing, retail, high technology, financial services, telecommunications and higher education.

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