Michael A. Cusumano
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Michael A. Cusumano is the Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor and Deputy Dean at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Previously he held a joint appointment in the MIT School of Engineering, Division of Engineering Systems. Professor Cusumano specializes in strategy, product development, and entrepreneurship in computer software as well as automobiles and consumer electronics. At MIT, he has recently taught Platform Strategy & Entrepreneurship as well as Strategy & the CEO. During 2016–17, he was on leave as Special Vice President and Dean of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Initiatives at Tokyo University of Science, where he founded the Tokyo Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center and designed a new mid-career Management of Technology curriculum as well as a new business school that merged the Graduate School of Innovation and the School of Management.
Michael A. Cusumano's Published Works
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Published Works
- Industry Platforms and Ecosystem Innovation (2013) (1355)
- Platform Leadership How Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco Drive Industry Innovation (2002) (818)
- Strategic Maneuvering and Mass-Market Dynamics: The Triumph of VHS over Beta (1992) (662)
- Supplier relations and management: A survey of Japanese, Japanese-transplant, and U. S. auto plants (1991) (625)
- How Companies Become Platform Leaders (2008) (607)
- The elements of platform leadership (2003) (473)
- Cloud computing and SaaS as new computing platforms (2010) (420)
- Services, Industry Evolution and the Competitive Strategies of Product Firms (2014) (381)
- The Japanese Automobile Industry: Technology and Management at Nissan and Toyota (1986) (349)
- An Empirical Study of Manufacturing Flexibility in Printed Circuit Board Assembly (1996) (319)
- Platform leadership (2002) (308)
- Competing On Internet Time: Lessons From Netscape And Its Battle With Microsoft (1998) (298)
- An Empirical Study of Flexibility in Manufacturing (1995) (284)
- Service and the Business Models of Product Firms: An Empirical Analysis of the Software Industry (2011) (283)
- Thinking Beyond Lean: How Multi Project Management is Transforming Product Development at Toyota and Other Companies (1998) (281)
- Technological Pioneering and Competitive Advantage: The Birth of the VCR Industry (1987) (278)
- The Business of Software: What Every Manager, Programmer, and Entrepreneur Must Know to Thrive and Survive in Good Times and Bad (2004) (245)
- The Changing Software Business: Moving from Products to Services (2008) (229)
- How Microsoft builds software (1997) (213)
- The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power (2019) (207)
- Technology strategy and managementThe evolution of platform thinking (2010) (205)
- Japan's Software Factories: A Challenge to U.S. Management, Michael A. Cusumano. 1991. Oxford University Press, New York, NY. 513 pages. ISBN: 0-19-506216-7 (1991) (191)
- Defining Software Ecosystems: A Survey of Software Platforms and Business Network Governance (2013) (174)
- Software Development Worldwide: The State of the Practice (2003) (171)
- Strategy, structure and performance in product development: Observations from the auto industry☆ (1992) (153)
- Software Development on Internet Time (1999) (151)
- Lean Software Development: A Tutorial (2012) (142)
- Software Ecosystems: Analyzing and Managing Business Networks in the Software Industry (2013) (136)
- Linking international technology transfer with strategy and management: a literature commentary (1994) (132)
- Judo strategy. The competitive dynamics of Internet time. (1999) (119)
- Trade-offs between Productivity and Quality in Selecting Software Development Practices (2003) (117)
- Complementary resources and cooperative research: a model of research joint ventures among competitors (1991) (114)
- Staying power : six enduring principles for managing strategy and innovation in an uncertain world (lessons from Microsoft, Apple, Intel, Google, Toyota and more) (2012) (108)
- A quantitative analysis of U.S. and Japanese practice and performance in software development (1990) (103)
- The software factory: a historical interpretation (1989) (100)
- Multiproject strategy, design transfer, and project performance: a survey of automobile development projects in the US and Japan (1995) (90)
- Flexibility and performance : a literature critique and strategic framework (1991) (88)
- How Microsoft Makes Large Teams Work Like Small Teams (1997) (88)
- Managing software development in globally distributed teams (2008) (78)
- The changing labyrinth of software pricing (2007) (75)
- Three Strategies for Managing Fast Growth (2001) (66)
- Shifting economies: From craft production to flexible systems and software factories (1992) (65)
- The Future of Platforms (2020) (65)
- Platform wars come to social media (2011) (62)
- Are the costs of 'free' too high in online education? (2013) (61)
- Building a Company on Internet Time: Lessons from Netscape (1999) (58)
- The Role of Services in Platform Markets (2008) (49)
- Competing on internet time (1998) (47)
- Who is liable for bugs and security flaws in software? (2004) (47)
- Strategic thinking for the next economy (2001) (45)
- Beyond the Waterfall: Software Development at Microsoft (1995) (44)
- The Bitcoin ecosystem (2014) (43)
- Evaluating a startup venture (2013) (42)
- Multi-project management: strategy and organization in automobile product development (1993) (38)
- What Netscape learned from cross-platform software development (1999) (37)
- Reflections on free and open software (2004) (37)
- Competing to be Really, Really Good: The Behind-the-Scenes Drama of Capability-Building Competition in the Automobile Industry (review) (2008) (33)
- Finding your balance in the products and services debate (2003) (30)
- A study of more than 250 platforms a reveal why most fail (2019) (29)
- Platforms and services (2010) (29)
- History and Strategy (2012) (27)
- Managing multiple interdependencies in large scale software development projects (1997) (27)
- Critical Decisions in Software Development: Updating the State of the Practice (2009) (27)
- Google: what it is and what it is not (2005) (27)
- Multi-Project Strategy and Market-Share Growth: The Benefits of Rapid Design Transfer in New Product Development (2018) (25)
- Can Self-Regulation Save Digital Platforms? (2021) (24)
- The sharing economy meets reality (2017) (24)
- Thinking Beyond Lean (2014) (23)
- Thinking Beyond Lean (2014) (23)
- Platforms Versus Products: Observations from the Literature and History (2012) (23)
- Factory Concepts and Practices in Software Development (1991) (22)
- MOOCs revisited, with some policy suggestions (2014) (21)
- The puzzle of Japanese software (2005) (20)
- The Apple-Samsung lawsuits (2013) (20)
- A Global Survey of Software Development Practices (2003) (20)
- Commentaries on “The Lenses of Lean” (2021) (19)
- Strategy Rules - Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs (2015) (19)
- The platform leader's dilemma (2011) (18)
- Technology strategy and managementThe puzzle of Apple (2008) (18)
- Extreme programming compared with Microsoft-style iterative development (2007) (18)
- Envisioning the future of India's software services business (2006) (17)
- The business of quantum computing (2018) (17)
- Software in Ireland (2005) (16)
- Product , Process , and Service Product , Process , and Service : A New Industry Lifecycle Model (2006) (16)
- Reflections on the Toyota debacle (2011) (14)
- Japanese technology management--innovations, transferability, and the limitations of "lean" production (1992) (14)
- Platforms and Innovation (2014) (13)
- Managing Software Platforms and Ecosystems (2019) (13)
- Where does Russia fit into the global software industry? (2006) (13)
- How Microsoft Competes (1996) (13)
- A note on the diet of Amphisbaena gonavensis in the Dominican Republic (1991) (13)
- How open should an open system be? essays on mobile computing (2006) (12)
- The sixth international workshop on economics-driven software engineering research (EDSER-6) (2004) (12)
- CRISPR (2018) (12)
- The Integration of History and Strategy Research (2012) (12)
- Technology Strategy and Management Platforms and Services: Understanding the Resurgence of Apple (2010) (12)
- What road ahead for Microsoft and Windows? (2006) (11)
- The puzzle of Japanese innovation and entrepreneurship (2016) (11)
- What we have learned and have yet to learn from manufacturer-supplier relations in the auto industry (1995) (11)
- New Businesses and New Business Models (2013) (10)
- Gaining Ground: Japan's Strides in Science and Technology (1988) (9)
- Guidepost: The Evolution of Research on Industry Platforms (2020) (9)
- The cloud as an innovation platform for software development (2019) (9)
- Alternative designs for product component integration (1998) (9)
- Will SaaS and Cloud Computing become a new Industry Platform (2010) (9)
- 'Platformizing' a bad business does not make it a good business (2019) (8)
- Can services and platform thinking help the U.S. Postal Service? (2012) (7)
- Self-driving vehicle technology (2020) (7)
- Beyond the software factory: a comparison of "classic" and PC software developers (1993) (6)
- Benefits and pitfalls of international strategic technology alliances (1994) (5)
- Extrapolating from Moore's law (2015) (5)
- TECHNOLOGICAL PIONEERING. CALIFORNIA (1987) (5)
- Technology strategy and managementThe legacy of Bill Gates (2009) (4)
- Amazon and whole foods (2017) (4)
- What road ahead for Microsoft the company? (2007) (4)
- Manufacturing innovation and competitive advantage : reflections on the Japanese automobile industry (1988) (4)
- Multi-project management : inter-project interdependency and organizational coordination in new product development (1994) (4)
- Making Large Teams Work Like Small Teams: Product Development at Microsoft (2000) (4)
- Technology strategy and managementDealing with the venture capital crisis (2009) (4)
- Japanese Investment and Influence in Thai Development (2011) (3)
- "Systematic" versus "accidental" reuse in Japanese software factories (1991) (3)
- Technology strategy and managementStrategies for difficult (and Darwinian) economic times (2009) (3)
- Supplier management and performance at Japanese, Japanese-transplant, and U.S. auto plants (1990) (3)
- Product Development Performance--Strategy,Organization,and Management in the World Auto Industry/Kim B.Clark and Takahiro Fujimoto(1991) (1992) (3)
- The factory approach to software development: a strategic overview (1989) (3)
- A THEORY OF SERVICES IN PRODUCTS INDUSTRIES (2008) (3)
- Synchronize-and-stabilize: an approach for balancing flexibility and structure in software product development (1996) (3)
- Software Business (2012) (2)
- More lawyers than programmers? (2004) (2)
- Welcome Defects as a Sign of Innovation (2005) (2)
- Boeing's 737 MAX (2020) (2)
- Epic versus Apple and the future of app stores (2021) (2)
- Beware the lure of the horizontal (2003) (2)
- The software factory : an entry for the Encyclopedia of software engineering (1991) (2)
- Company character and the software business (2003) (2)
- A quantitative analysis of U.S. and Japanese software-engineering practice and performance (1989) (2)
- The Software Factory Reconsidered: An Approach to the Strategic Management of Engineering (2011) (2)
- Reorganizing for Multi-Project Management: Toyota’s New Structure of Product Development Centers (1995) (2)
- Challenges and Opportunities in the Tunisian Private Equity Sector (2012) (1)
- In defense of IBM (2015) (1)
- The legacy of Steve Jobs (2011) (1)
- CRISPR: an emerging platform for gene editing (2018) (1)
- Small-Lot Production: Key to High Productivity and Quality in Japanese Auto Manufacturing (2011) (1)
- Objectives and Context of Software Measurement, Analysis and Control (1992) (1)
- A MODEL OF COOPERATIVE R&D AMONG COMPETITORS. (1990) (1)
- The Misunderstood Miracle: Industrial Development and Political Change in Japan. By David Friedman · Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988. viii + 265 pp. Tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $12.95 (1989) (1)
- "Ecosystem, Platform and Industry Architecture Research: Re-focusing the Agenda" (2015) (1)
- The Factory Approach to Large-Scale Software Development: Implications for Strategy, Technology, and Structure (2011) (1)
- The legacy of Steve Ballmer (2014) (1)
- Reflecting on the Facebook IPO (2012) (1)
- Is Google's alphabet a good bet? (2016) (1)
- The high costs of 'free' online education: some observations and policy suggestions (2016) (1)
- What Does it Take to be a Platform Leader: Lessons from Palm and NTT DoCoMo (2004) (1)
- Data platforms and network effects (2022) (1)
- Interview (2016) (1)
- Children's Magic Won't Deliver the Semantic Web. Authors' reply (2009) (1)
- A U.S. Software Factory Experiment--System Development Corporation (2011) (1)
- Software Business: Third International Conference, ICSOB 2012, Cambridge, MA, USA, June 18-20, 2012, Proceedings (2012) (1)
- Development Worldwide : The State of the Practice (1)
- Software Development: Management and Business Concepts (2014) (1)
- The influence of inter-project strategy on market performance in the auto industry, 1980-1990 (1992) (1)
- XP Practices versus Values? (2003) (1)
- Multi-Project Strategy and Organizational Coordination in Automobile Product Development (2015) (1)
- Toshiba's Fuchu Software Factory: Strategy, Technology, and Organization (2011) (1)
- The International Centerfor Research on the Management of Technology (1994) (1)
- Factory Concepts and Practices in Software Development: An Historical Overview (2011) (1)
- Japanese cooperative R&D projects in software technology (1989) (0)
- Software business entrepreneurship: lessons from Bill Gates and Microsoft (1998) (0)
- The Japanese Automobile Industry@@@The Management Challenge (1987) (0)
- The Factory Approach to Software Development: a Strateqic Overview a Strategic Overview the Software Challenge (0)
- c This article presents the results of a questionnaire survey sent to a sample of automobile (1991) (0)
- Collaboration in Japan: The Market and Beyond . Cooperation and Competition in Information Technology Development in the Japanese System. Martin Fransman. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1991. xvi, 333 pp., illus. $54.50. (1991) (0)
- System Development Corporation: Defining the Factory Challenge (2015) (0)
- FREE IS NOT OPEN SOFTWARE (2005) (0)
- From Quantum Computing to Quantum Communications (2022) (0)
- Shifting Economies: Craft Production to the Flexible Factory (2018) (0)
- A Half Century of Growth, Protection, and Promotion (1989) (0)
- A Deal That's Good for the Internet (1998) (0)
- Japanese Yearbook on Business History: 1984. Edited by Keiichiro Nakagawa and Hidemasa Morikawa. (Tokyo: Japan Business History Institute, 1984. x + 185 pp. 7,000 Yen.) (1986) (0)
- Best Practices for Evolutionary Software Development Management (2013) (0)
- Fujitsu Software: Process Control to Automated Customization (2011) (0)
- Software Technology Management: "Worst" Problems and "Best Solutions (1988) (0)
- Software technology : management issues in product and process development (2003) (0)
- 0ct2o1s87 Working Paper Alfred P. Sloan School of Management a U.s. "software Factory" Experiment System Development Corporation a U.s. "software Factory" Experiment: System Development Corporation Oct 2 1987 Received Mit Sloan School of Management (2008) (0)
- Michael Cusumano (2000) (0)
- Power and Inequality in a World of Platforms and Ecosystems (2019) (0)
- NEC--standardization strategy for a distributed "software factory" structure (2011) (0)
- Science in Russia and the Soviet Union: A Short History, Loren R. Graham. 375 pages. ISBN: 0-521-24566-4. $29.95 (1993) (0)
- Hitachi Pioneering the Factory Model for Large-Scale Software Development (2015) (0)
- THE MIT JAPAN PROGRAM Science , Technology , Management ' 14 I MULTI-PRODUCT STRATEGY AND MARKET GROWTH : THE BENEFITS OF RAPID DESIGN TRANSFER IN NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT (0)
- Collaboration in Japan. (1991) (0)
- Multisided platform research over the past three decades: a bibliometric analysis (2021) (0)
- Apple Builds Gréât Platforms, Too, Not Just Products. Authors' reply (2008) (0)
- Notes on reproduction in a Xeric-adapted anole, Anolis whitemani (Sauria : Polychridae), from Hispaniola (1991) (0)
- "Services, Platforms, Business Model Innovations and the Implications for Open Governance" (2015) (0)
- to be presented at the DRUID 2012 on June 19 to June 21 at CBS , Copenhagen , Denmark , Industry Platforms and Ecosystem Innovation (2012) (0)
- The software factory : origins and popularity in Japan (1988) (0)
- The process spectrum in software development: an exploratory survey and interpretation (1989) (0)
- Hitachi--pioneering a "factory" strategy and structure for large-scale software development (2011) (0)
- THE MIT JAPAN PROGRAM Science , Technology , Management * I THE SOFITWARE FACTORY : AN ENTRY FOR THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (2004) (0)
- Hardware and Software Customer Satisfaction in Japan: A Comparison of U.S. and Japanese Vendors (2013) (0)
- Oevtfey Working Paper Alfred P. Sloan School of Management Japanese Investment and Influence in Thai Development Japanese Investment and Influence in Thai Development (2008) (0)
- Software Development Strategy for the Internet Age: Lessons from Netscape's Cross-platform Development Strategy (1999) (0)
- Working Group on Software-Intensive Business Research : Definition and Roadmap (2018) (0)
- The Factory Approach to Software Development: a Strateqic Overview a Strategic Overview the Software Challenge (0)
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