Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, shared the beneath communication with Microsoft staff this morning.
As we mark our fiftieth 12 months, I’ve been reflecting on how we have now remained a consequential firm decade after decade in an business the place there isn’t any franchise worth. And it’s as a result of — time and time once more when tech paradigms have shifted — we have now seized the chance to reinvent ourselves. And that’s what we’re doing once more right this moment on this AI platform shift.
To proceed thriving as an organization, we have to increase the bar on our operational excellence, regularly enhancing safety, high quality, and supply to our prospects, in addition to the rigor with which we function the enterprise. Constructing this functionality is important, and I would like every of us to take as a lot pleasure in exceeding buyer expectations in our fundamentals as we do in our product innovation. In any case, each are mission important to our prospects and our future.
On this context, I’m thrilled to share that Carolina Dybeck Happe is becoming a member of Microsoft as EVP and Chief Operations Officer. On this newly created position, she’s going to be part of the senior management crew (SLT), reporting to me.
I’ve come to admire Carolina by means of her work as a world enterprise chief, together with most lately her position in main GE’s historic turnaround. She is acknowledged for her capability to drive transformational change at scale whereas delivering improved buyer experiences and quicker time to worth. Carolina will companion with the SLT to assist us drive steady enterprise course of enchancment throughout all our organizations and speed up our company-wide AI transformation, growing worth to prospects and companions.
As a part of this transition, the Commerce + Ecosystems group in Cloud + AI, the Microsoft Digital group in Experiences + Gadgets, and the Microsoft Enterprise Operations group in Finance will transfer to report back to Carolina. These groups are doing mission-critical work for us with excessive ambition plans on find out how to empower our companions, prospects, and staff with world class expertise and experiences.
I sit up for seeing the progress we’ll obtain collectively as we embrace steady enchancment in all we do.
Please be part of me in welcoming Carolina to Microsoft.
Satya