Burning The Ships: Intellectual Property And The Transformation Of Microsoft

Now in paperback, the inside story of "the greatest transformation of Microsoft since it became a multinational company." Marshall Phelps's remarkable eyewitness story offers lessons for any executive struggling with today's innovation and intellectual property challenges. Burning the Ships offers Phelps's dramatic behind-the-scenes account of how he overcame internal resistance and got Microsoft to open up channels of collaboration with other firms. There are lessons in this book for executives in every industry—most especially on the role that intellectual property can play in liberating previously untapped value in a company and opening up powerful new business opportunities in today's era of 'open innovation.' Here is a powerful inside account of the dawn of a new era at what is arguably the most powerful technology company on earth.