ng the Connor ModelApplication of any form of business modeling highlights the areas in which certain efforts have proven successful while others have proven to be less than advantageous. Connor’s ideas relating to the sequence of ultimate outcomes related to an organization’s design serve as a means through which the organization can reconfigure both its short-term (up to three years) and long-term (three to ten years) management objectives design. This is no less true at Microsoft than at a start-up company in Pahrump, Nevada, that has eight employees and grand plans for the future. For both start-up ventures and existing firms, entrepreneurship carried on in the pursuit of business opportunities spurs business expansion, technological progress, and wealth creation. The Connor Model would certainly verify that fundamental fact.In order to adequately plan for the future, especially in terms of making the appropriate organization design plans for the future, Microsoft has had to broaden its collective understanding of information and other aspects associated with non-bureaucratic organizational design in order to appropriately commit to the ideas Connor advocates. Clearly, the current changes in organizational environments, are disturbing the century-long domination of the bureaucratic organization but a company such as Microsoft has not had to deal with such hidebound "traditions." However, it is also important that it not allow itself to be "married to" the unique traditions and processes it has established. Considering the past performance and accomplishments of the company, regardless of decisions made by the government, it is likely Microsoft will continue to evolve in ways that assure its success. ...
