Bill Gates Quotes
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Companies should spend less time protecting financial data from employees and more time teaching them to analyze and act on it.
Bill Gates
A sign of a good digital nervous system is that you have middle managers empowered by the flow of specific, actionable information.
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I’m amazed by the tortuous path that critical information often takes through many Fortune 500 companies.
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Another sign of a good digital nervous system is the number of good ideas bubbling up from your line managers and knowledge workers.
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People like knowing that something they’re doing is working, and they like being able to demonstrate to management that it’s working.
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They get a kick out of running what-ifs. People really do appreciate information, and it’s a big motivator.
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Pilots like to say that good landings are the result of good approaches.
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Companies struggling with too many unproductive meetings and too much paper don’t lack energy and brains. The data they need exists somewhere in the company in some form. They just can’t readily put their hands on it.
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Middle managers need as much business data as senior executives but often have less.
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Sales needs to quickly find out whether the company has the inventory or can get it quickly before promising delivery on a big order. Manufacturing needs to know what product is selling like gangbusters so that it can shift production priorities. Business mangers throughout the company need to know about both and a whole lot more.
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Every business has to manage its income and expenses.
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Extracting data from operational processes and using it in a meaningful way has been one of the more intractable problems of business.
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A company… needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.
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A company has to communicate with its customers and act on what it learns in that communication.
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[In 1999] In Microsoft’s culture of numbers you have to have good factual data to convince people of almost any business proposition…
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How do you develop a marketing program that doesn’t call for hiring dozens of people and spending tens of millions of dollars? You begin by putting the information you have to work.
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The discussion was straight math…
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Before we spend big bucks, we want to find out on a small scale whether our idea will work.
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[In 1999] Today, instead of scheduling a general Microsoft strategy tour in eight cities where overall revenue is low, we can determine whether one city needs a seminar on Office, another a seminar on Windows, and a third a seminar on Exchange.
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Every business needs information systems… It should be just a click of a button away for your sales managers or for your people in the field.
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Really difficult business problems always have many aspects. Often a major decision depends on an impromptu search for one or two key pieces of auxiliary information and a quick, ad hoc analysis of several possible scenarios.
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[In 1999] If you’re a district manager at Microsoft today, you must be more than a good sales leader helping your team close the big deals… Now you can be a business thinker.
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It’s business at the speed of thought.
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[In 1999] Businesspeople need to shake loose of the notion that information is hard to get.
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[In 1999] The paperless office, like artificial intelligence, is one of those ‘any day now’ phenomena that somehow never seem to actually arrive.
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[In 1999] The first use of the phrase ‘Paperless Office’ appeared in a headline a quarter of a century ago in a trade publication for phone companies.
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[In 1988] This vision of a paperless office is still very, very far away… Computers today are not yet fulfilling this vision.
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[In 1999] Paper consumption has continued to double every four years, and 95 percent of all information in the United States remains on paper, compared with just 1 percent stored electronically. Paperwork is increasing faster than digital technology can eliminate it!
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Paper consumption was only a symptom of a bigger problem… administrative processes that were too complicated and time-intensive.
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I exercised the privilege of my job and banned all unnecessary forms. In place of all that paper, systems grew up that were far more accurate and far easier to work with and that empowered our people to do more interesting work.
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Microsoft was the first company to offer paperless proxy voting to employee shareholders…
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Businesses have an incentive to persuade partners and governments to accept information electronically so that everybody can get to a fully digital approach with no paper.
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[On savings in travel in 1999] Consistent employee use of preferred vendors will save us millions of dollars per year.
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Putting responsibility into the hands of those affected.
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We’ve put responsibility directly into the hands of the people most motivated to act.
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Human Resources wants to do ‘thinking work, not manual work.’
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[In 1999] Until we get a breakthrough in flat-screen technology… books and magazines still can’t be beat for readability and portability.
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[In 1999] Scanning enables you to go all digital internally while waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.
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[In 1999] Everybody uses our electronic tools, starting with me.
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As the CEO, I’m supposed to be making decisions involving tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, but organizationally I am the only one who can approve the restaurant bill for Steve Ballmer, our president.
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