Microsoft & FedEx: Reimagining the World

Each month, “Ammirati on Innovation” episodes will look at ways
that the disruptive-startup mentality is spreading beyond young
entrepreneurs to big established corporations. Serial
entrepreneur, venture capitalist and Carnegie Mellon B-school
professor Sean Ammirati, who sits at the intersection of these
high-change dynamics, provides insight. In this episode, Sean and
I talk about business model transformation and how Microsoft and
FedEx are reimagining the world.


Episode 13


Sean talks about how we’ve gotten to a point where companies have
made 80% of the investment they needed to in digital
transformation (but he thinks they’ve gotten about 20% of the
value from that investment). Business model transformation is not
just making experiences more efficient and making your supply
chain run a little smoother, but actually completely turning your
businesses into digital-first models.


Taking a turn, Microsoft and FedEx are partnering to combine the
scale of the global digital logistics network of FedEx with the
power of Microsoft’s intelligent cloud. Businesses will have an
unprecedented level of control into the global movement of goods.


Concluding, Sean says that we need to start looking at how do we
take this situation that we're all in and use it to make our
companies better, stronger, and more vibrant. We owe it to our
employees, we owe it to our customers, and we owe it to our
shareholders.


Also in this episode:


· The hen and the pig – no such thing as a merger of equals


· Joint AI innovation between Microsoft and Novartis


· Workday and Salesforce: Perfect together


· Is it a V-shaped recession, or a U-shaped recession?


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