I have written a few blogs on career development. This will be my last one on this topic for a while but wanted to one more around experiences and career planning. This is directed for people more in larger organizations. For me and for many others, your career is a journey that at times sometimes it...

Microsoft has offices in over 100 countries and derives a significant amount of revenue from countries other than the United States. To ensure that the finance organization has a global view, there are several ways where finance employees can have a global experience. First, we have recently launched...

How do you drive innovation in a finance organization? This is one area that we often do not spend enough time on but definitely should. One activity that Microsoft Finance did was what is what we called Finance Thinkweek. Chris Liddell (MSFT CFO) launched a process to seek ideas from all MSFT Finance...

I have found that finance employees do not spend enough time focused on external leadership. I think of external leadership as engaging with external customers to showcase business processes and technology, actively participating in the external finance community as well as talking to Press (although...

Welcome to MSFT Finance Blog. On this blog, you will find details about MSFT Finance such as information about our organization, our rhythm, our challenges, how we leverage technology, etc. Given this is a social networking site, this is an informal MSFT Finance blog that will offer an inside view of...