【主题】Research on the Global Software Industry 【时间】2004-6-18 14:00-16:00
【地点】经管学院伟伦楼南208
【语言】英文
【主讲人简介】
Michael A. Cusumano is the MIT Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management. He specializes in strategy, product development, and entrepreneurship in the computer software industry, as well as automobiles and consumer electronics.
He teaches courses on strategic management, innovation and entrepreneurship, and the software business. Professor Cusumano is fluent in Japanese and has lived and worked in Japan for seven years. He received two Fulbright Fellowships and a Japan Foundation Fellowship for studying at Tokyo University. He has been a visiting professor in management at Hitotsubashi University and Tokyo University in Japan and the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, and a visiting professor in computer science at the University of Maryland. He has consulted for some 50 major companies around the world, including Alcatel, AOL, AT&T, Business Objects, Cisco, CuraGen, Ericsson, Fiat, Ford, Fujitsu, General Electric, Fidelity, Verizon, Hitachi, i2 Technologies, IBM, Intel, Lucent, Motorola, NASA, NEC, Nokia, NorTel, Robert Bosch, Schlumberger, Siemens, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba.
He has been a director of NuMega Technologies (sold to Compuware in 1998 for $150 million) and Infinium Software (sold to SSA Global Technologies in 2002 for $105 million), as well as other private and public software companies. He is currently a director of Entigo (warrantee management software) and an advisor to NetNumina Solutions (internet architecture and custom solutions), firstRain (wireless and web services software), H-5 Technologies (digital search technology), and Sigma Technology Group PLC (early stage ventures).
He has also served as editor-in-chief and chairman of the MIT Sloan Management Review and writes periodically for Communications of the ACM, The Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, The Washington Post, and other publications. Professor Cusumano has published eight books. Microsoft Secrets (1995, with Richard Selby) is a best-selling study of Microsoft’s strategy, organization, and approach to software development, and has approximately 150,000 copies in print in 14 languages. Platform Leadership: How Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco Drive Industry Innovation (2002, with Annabelle Gawer) examines how industry leaders orchestrate complementary innovations that make their platforms more valuable. Competing on Internet Time: Lessons from Netscape and its Battle with Microsoft (1998, with David Yoffie), was named one of the top 10 business books of 1998 by Business Week and Amazon.com, and played a central role in the Microsoft anti-trust trial. Thinking Beyond Lean: How Multi-Project Management is Transforming Product Development at Toyota and Other Companies (1998, with Kentaro Nobeoka) analyzes product development and platform strategies in the auto industry.
He is also coeditor of Strategic Thinking for the Next Economy (2001, with Costas Markides) and author of Japan's Software Factories: A Challenge to U.S. Management (1991) and The Japanese Automobile Industry: Technology and Management at Nissan and Toyota (1985). His latest book, The Business of Software: What Every Manager, Programmer, and Entrepreneur Must Know in Good Times and Bad, is forthcoming in 2004. |
