Columbia Southern University
Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Albuquerque in 1957. Its history started coming out in 1975. The organization is now dealing in Microsoft windows operating systems, Microsoft Suite that is involved with the production of the software, music and video devices, entertainment devices and much more. In 1980, the company collaborated with the IBM Company and it allowed the IBM Company to use a bundle Microsoft operating system in the IBM computers and promised to pay Microsoft royalty for sale. In 1985, the IBM requested Microsoft to create a new operating system for their computers which they called OS/2. Microsoft agreed to provide the OS/2 operating systems but continued dealing on other alternative operating systems. Today the company is among the leading in terms of software delivery for all windows operating systems.
The Microsoft mission and vision is to help people and companies to realize their full potential. The mission and vision is the one that guides the organizational development. To start with the Microsoft goals and mission, is to ensure that each and every individual gets the best (David, & David, 2015). Having that the company has come up with a number of important software such as the Microsoft excel and many other software, the software that run on the Microsoft windows helps individuals and business to come up with a data analysis strategy technique which they use to identify issues around their businesses and thus coming up with strategies of ensuring that there exist continuity in the business operations. Microsoft provides a platform on which most machines operate and thus making the organizational operations easy and convenient. The structure of the organization is meant to serve the customer needs. It is meant to promote quality in the organization and thus satisfying the customer and market demand.
There three core goals that Microsoft takes into a serious consideration. They include, Reinvent productivity and business processes. The above is one of the short term goals and objective set by the organization in question. The company is devoted to use its products and services in order to promote the productivity of the businesses and individuals who use their products. The second goal that can be referred to as long term objective is build the intelligent cloud platform. The organization is devoted to ensure that in the near future, it establishes intelligent cloud platform for everyone. This is meant to ensure that its customers does not waste any of their resources and data when there is break down of the machines’ hardware. This is a long term objective that could be enhanced by corporation by all stakeholders. The last core objective that the organization is devoted to achieve is Creation of more personal computing. The organization is devoted to come up with small scale computing platform. This will promote an economical and personal computing platform.
The Microsoft mission and vision can be improved by the use of a number of factors. To start with, the company should train its employees on the importance of the organization’s mission and vision statement. If the employees becomes of the statement mentioned above they will work towards achieving them. Secondarily, having that Microsoft is technological organization, it should work towards achieving its goals by embracing the aspect of technological dynamics. The organization should move with the dynamics in technology so that its value cannot be obsolete in the market. To win in the ever increasing competition, the quality of the services provided by the organization should be of the outstanding quality in order to maintain and retain the market demand.
Reference
David, F. R., & David, F. R. (2015). Strategic management: A competitive advantage approach, concepts and cases [VitalSource Bookshelf version] (15th ed.). Retrieved from https://www.vitalsource.com/textbooks