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 13Sean 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? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.